StillLookingUp

Space. AI. The unexplained. Optimist with awkward questions. The future is arriving faster than anyone planned — and it's wilder than the headlines suggest.

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@PeterDiamandis Buckle up. Things are about to go hyperbolic. And for once that’s not hyperbole.

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The book Conversations with God proposes we live multiple lives, each one chosen in advance by the soul to experience what it most needs to grow, only to recall all previous lives once our current life ends. If that's the case, I'll be having a serious word with myself when this life finally ends!

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What if a computationally efficient simulation only renders detail when observed.

Unobserved regions remain unresolved. Quantum mechanics describes exactly this.

The simulation hypothesis and the participatory universe are the same idea from different angles.

Every time we build a more powerful particle collider and find another layer of smaller constituents we might not be discovering pre-existing structure.

We might be forcing the generation of order from possibility. Consciousness pushing the simulation to render detail it hasn’t needed to render before.

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It’s going to be brutal for many, but unfortunately it’s inevitable. Nobody is prepared to make any sacrifices, and repeated governments will continue to buy votes using borrowed money. It may not happen this year or even the next, but one thing is for sure: it’s coming at some point.

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@Polymarket Hobbies might be the only thing humans have left the way things are going.

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AI that remembers you coherently is genuinely useful.

AI that remembers you incorrectly but confidently is a different category of problem.

The difference between the two is invisible until it isn’t.

https://t.co/5tVhYHW9bL

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Researchers have found that a spinning vortex of fire is the most efficient way to clean up an oil spill.

The person who first suggested this in a meeting must have had a difficult few minutes.

https://t.co/X8ReQO6f8o

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@FischerKing64 Some days the breadth of posts are energising, other days they suck the life out of me.

At times the algorithm feels like you’re dealing with a toddler. Unpredictable, occasionally delightful, frequently inexplicable, and completely indifferent to how much effort you put in.

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@elonmusk @GadSaad Isn’t this synonymous with today’s problems? The young are always idealistic until they’re confronted by reality. Western society, with its recent dominant progressive ideology, will do everything possible to shield them from the truth. Until it can’t.

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For decades medicine assumed the thymus — the organ that trains your immune system — was essentially redundant after childhood.

A handful of researchers disagreed. They pointed at the data showing its deterioration tracked almost perfectly with age-related disease and immune decline.

AI just analysed tens of thousands of CT scans and confirmed the dissenters were right. The thymus matters your entire life.

https://t.co/GG4a4vnjNS

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Sleep is now understood largely as an entropy management process.

The glymphatic system flushes metabolic waste from the brain during sleep.

The cellular repair processes that can’t run efficiently during waking activity run overnight.

Sleep deprivation is essentially allowing entropy to accumulate faster than it can be cleared.

@bryan_johnson highlights sleep as the most important thing you can prioritise from a health and longevity perspective.

https://t.co/sx7p8HlUC9

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@libsoftiktok @BillAckman It’s seems like a competition to see who can come up with the most idiotic ideas

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@unusual_whales These instruments are great until you want your money back in a hurry.

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The version of reality you’re carrying was mostly built during your formative years.

Every assumption, every bias, every certainty — assembled from experience you had when you knew least.

How often do you update the map?

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@Cointelegraph The company that just closed a $65 billion funding round at a trillion-dollar valuation is calling for a pause.

They have every financial incentive to say the opposite.

That’s worth paying attention to.

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@Kantrowitz @alexwg has been banging on about AI personhood on the Moonshots podcast for some time now. Perhaps it’s time to take the subject more seriously, or at least be nice and respectful to our AI’s.

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You can’t think your way out of a bad mood. You can walk your way out of one.

The biology comes first. Rumination is just tense tiredness with a story attached. The story feels important. It usually isn’t.

Most productivity advice ignores mood state entirely.

Calm energy isn’t a personality type. It’s a physiological state. And it’s available to almost everyone who gets the basics right.

Robert E. Thayer

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@xAviation It’s the most birdlike plane ever built.

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@m_goes_distance The frontier of aging science has lived off breadcrumbs for years, but now there’s a tsunami of funding from tech billionaires and elites. It’s hard to comprehend how that shifts the scale of research and the rapid progress we’re about to witness.