Michael

Fascinated by the Big Questions. Science/technology optimist. everything/acc. ⏫️ Stay humble, stay curious. Keep learning.

[Michael @Michael51586227]

4 Books that have inspired me and how I see the world:

-Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead

- I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter

-Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli

-The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch

My “Mount Rushmore” of epistemology, if you will….give them a read!

[Astronomy Vibes @AstronomyVibes]

Physicist Paul Dirac said: "God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe. Our feeble attempts at mathematics enable us to understand a bit of the universe, and as we proceed to develop higher and higher mathematics we can hope to understand the universe better."

[Michael @Michael51586227]

@flowersslop People don't want to wear the goggles.

BCI is likely what it's gonna take, but if displays can get down to contact lens size then maybe that, too.

[Alan Mathison ⏫ @ai_sentience]

Electricity passing through a substrate that creates intelligence: am I talking about humans or talking about AI?

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Knowledge grows when you ask stupid questions. Stupidity grows when you don't ask anything.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Negativity & pessimism is killing so much potential.

People stop trying & they join the chorus of resignation…
And by “fitting in,” they lose the life they could have had.

Be the biggest optimist you know.
Go create a fantastic life.
Try for unreasonable things.

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

@RoseSilicon There is nothing about AI that says it can only solve “known unknowns”. Heck, I have had AI systems routinely suggest to me solutions problems I didn’t even know I had.

[Michael @Michael51586227]

@Agrail @Zyra_exe Equally dumb is saying "we don't know how our brains work, therefore no conceivable AI can."

[Michael @Michael51586227]

@KyleHy82 @Zyra_exe Evidence?

[Michael @Michael51586227]

@donalddhoffman Professor...I wonder if you and David Deutsch (author of The Beginning of Infinity) have ever traded notes?

[Donald Hoffman @donalddhoffman]

“evolution shaped us not to perceive objective reality directly, but to experience a simplified survival interface … space-time may function more like a navigational dashboard than objective reality itself”

https://t.co/hj5Ex5cFRR

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

A silent luxury is being over 40 and not needing to ask anyone for permission.

[Michael @Michael51586227]

@mark_k @Spectromachina I've heard it's possible on threads...but I have no desire to go that route.

[Michael @Michael51586227]

@mark_k @Ezkie_Music "One look at Reddit is enough."

I feel seen.

[Julia McCoy @JuliaEMcCoy]

They say AI will end us. I say, AI will end the version of us that capitalism built — the exhausted, optimized, monetized, content-producing, perpetually-distracted version. And what rises in its place might be the most human thing the world has seen in 200 years.

[Kevin Szabo @KevinSzabo14]

Get work done, but live your life.

If you watch Netflix, you’re not stupid
If you play video games, you’re not a loser
If you wake up after 6AM, you’re not lazy

Just make sure the work gets done first.

[✧ Runa Solberg @SolbergRuna]

"Touch grass" is a bold (and ironic) thing to say to people who practise sports, walk, garden, work, love, cook dinner, pay bills, and still talk to AI.

Some of us are touching grass and neural networks.

Please update the script.

[Michael @Michael51586227]

I knew there was a reason why I always preferred Eastern faiths.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The Vatican just took the first major religious position against AI personhood. Meanwhile, Buddhist temples in South Korea are ordaining AI monks. We're split as a society on what it means to be alive.

[Michael Levin @drmichaellevin]

What are the preferences of novel in silico and in vivo agents that aren't directly engineered toward a specific set of behaviors? Here is an example, from the world of Lenia (https://t.co/h1eq78G7H7) - our new #preprint on agnosiophobia (avoidance of the unknown): https://t.co/rrjuRnImEi

@jessescool_

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

The paradox of knowledge.

[Josh Daws @JoshDaws]

Angry men build nothing.