Igor Waltritsch

I enjoy breaking down complex problems and not finding solutions.
(Really, Who Are You?)

[Igor Waltritsch @IwZen]

The Unnamable Present
2017 book by Roberto Calasso

The Unnamable Present is a meditation by Roberto Calasso on the re-emergence of nationalism and totalitarianism in global politics and culture in the context of an artificially intelligent contemporary world-system. @grok

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@richimedhurst These people you seek into have died long ago. Had differently wired brains and understanding of things. Beside that as David Reich of Harvard recently has shown, we humans have hardly any analogies with about ten generations behind us. So please.

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Last version of #Grok for non subscribers

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New #Fashion

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@NicTrades Is Peace bullish?

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#jazznote Your Gold Teeth II · Steely Dan

Katy Lied ℗ 1975

https://t.co/HKKaUniByT

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You’re wondering if Bibi (or Israel) might be quietly dumping US stocks or something as a petty revenge move?

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

Compelling essay by sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on why LLMs are nowhere near consciousness, but why it serves the interests of LLM companies to constantly suggest that they might be.

I've pulled one quote below, but the whole article is worth reading.

[Igor Waltritsch @IwZen]

The unconscious is huge. #Humans

Psychology shows that much of what drives us — motivations, biases, emotional triggers, even parts of decision-making — operates below conscious awareness. We confabulate reasons for our own behavior after the fact.

[Igor Waltritsch @IwZen]

Social and cultural layers. #Humans

Much of what we think is "us" is actually internalized from family, culture, language, and environment. Untangling that is extremely hard.

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You are not static. #Humans

Personality, values, and even memories change over time. The "you" trying to understand yourself today is not exactly the same as the "you" from five or ten years ago. It's like trying to map a river while standing in it as it flows.

[Igor Waltritsch @IwZen]

Cognitive biases distort the mirror. #Humans

Confirmation bias, self-serving bias, hindsight bias, the illusion of explanatory depth... humans are wired to maintain a comfortable self-narrative more than an accurate one.

[John Cochrane @JohnHCochrane]

Inequality opinions at WSJ
https://t.co/CBODHFjT43

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@jam_croissant Quants are of no use anymore. AI is disrupting everyone there. BTW so many memes you post, too many.

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@severeweatherEU Impressive work. Thank You!

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David Reich – Bronze Age shock, the Neanderthal puzzle, & the sudden spread of farming

He and collaborator Ali Akbari just published a paper that overturns a long-standing consensus about human evolution — #DNA

https://t.co/Q8JtYLnTN9

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What if one of our oldest ideas about ancestry is simply wrong?
David #Reich argues that ancient #DNA has exposed the myth of purity and uncovered a far messier history of who we are and where we came from.

Your ancestors aren't who you think they are

https://t.co/1FBNz9FjSb

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"You don't share any more DNA with your ancestors 10 generations back than you do with a random stranger,"

https://t.co/ihmYG3l4Am

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Hundreds of genes selected in West Eurasia since farming began, many linked to health #DNA

“This work allows us to assign place and time to forces that shaped us,” said Reich

https://t.co/qEuf231bRy

[Eric Nuttall @ericnuttall]

HRH Prince Abdulaziz, likely the most informed and plugged-in energy expert on the planet: “for me to be silent is a humble admission of the fact that I don’t know what will happen, not tomorrow but in half an hour time.” There is no playbook for what we are going through!

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@tweetatweir @DrFrancisYoung Think of the 1999