Portrait of Titanic passenger and millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim 1910. Refusing to enter a lifeboat, he reportedly asked a steward to inform his family "that I played the game straight to the end and that no women was left on board this ship because Ben Guggenheim was a coward"
This is a good idea imo
Global American Empire is unsustainable, The Dark Continent (Eurasia) is very big, very old and full of insane monsters
Western Hemisphere is cozy. Good climate, weak peoples. The US can be the local top dog for eternity, even help ennoble the place
The whole organ donation thing is a perfect example of a principle I've noticed, which is that the state, or really any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy, will always implement the most evil version of whatever good you're trying to accomplish.
Organ donation is an incredible moral good. It costs nothing, essentially. When you die, instead of wasting your perfectly good life-saving organs, you give them away. Obviously everyone on earth should be in favor of this and absent really niche religious objections and some noetic sciencey concerns about *receiving* organs altering the personality, there's really no reason to push back on this.
I know it, you know it, and everyone knows it.
So then you ask yourself, "what's the worst case scenario if we move forward with this?" and it's hard to imagine!
So you think and think and you come up with this absurd idea that, well, the worst case scenario is that they start stealing organs. They just fucking kill you for your organs. Because you volunteered to donate your organs in advance, there's now an incentive for you to die because your organs are in play in a way that someone who hasn't preapproved organ donation isn't.
But that's so absurd. They'd never perform organ harvesting on a living patient.
But of course they do. This is the real world. There was a case recently of a guy literally waking up on the table and the doctors wanted to keep going because he was legally dead and they needed those organs.
It's sick stuff, but this is the reality. Whatever the messiest, most vile, just plain evilest implementation of your policy is going to be the one that's implemented.
I call this method of policy analysis "Zy's Eyes Review" because it rhymes and I want something named after me.
The state is a capricious djinn and you need to be very careful what you wish for and how.
More often than not, you're actually better off trying to achieve your moral goal on your own as an individual instead of rubbing the lamp of state power.
Good luck
Everyone will be talking about Reta in two to three years,
It’s basically the super Ozempic as it doesn’t only help with weight loss but also with muscle composition, so aka looking fit. It also has focus related benefits.
Humanity has finally solved fitness.
Probably will be in all our water systems by 2050.
The key goal of the next few decades is basically get rich and don’t die.
I realize this account is getting boring because I tell you guys this seemingly everyday now,
But this is where we are. Only those two things actually matter now.
Bryan Johnson is actually right.
Don’t understand why you all want a rapid AGI.
We should all be extremely happy that we may be on the edge of a mini AI winter if LLM progress is slowing down now.
It means meaningful AGI by the late 2030s, not early 2030s.
This means you have an extra decade to get rich.
Yes, students need to memorize their math facts. Lack thereof is characteristic of mathematical disability. When facts are not memorized, recomputing them on the fly steals brainpower away from higher-level thought. It's quite literally disabling. And completely avoidable.
Modern tech tends to focus on “more”. More data. More bandwidth. More compute.
The best software engineering happens in the “less” sphere; codec engineering.
Listen to this stream with 90% packet loss. The Opus Encoder team is cracked:
automated voice/speech transcription is like 95% of the way there of being at human fidelity and i am convinced that the only thing actually preventing it from being 100% at this point is "lack of interest"
Train yourself to pass out, not "fall asleep". Go to bed, if not asleep within 5 min, get up. Repeat until you crash. Repeat this every day and keep making it lower and lower (4 min, 3 min, 2 min, 1 min)
Yann LeCun: I'm not interested in LLMs anymore - they're the past. The future is in four more interesting areas: machines that understand the physical world, persistent memory, reasoning, and planning.