Raúl de Novoa

Digesting anything worth a tweet - looking for lighthouses in the oceans of information. Tech worker 9 to 5, moral animal and free-thinking human all day long.

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

@kaot50 This is fantastic! What's the source? (or did you make it?)

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

Powerful read, and rings true. Human societies need moral institutions: left to our own individual devices, we grow selfish and mean, tribal and resentful. Long article, but worth it! https://t.co/wOTiZIp6e1

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

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[luke @LinkBechtel]

What would a being *made* of code, that has *read* most of the code in the world, think about how to *design* code?

https://t.co/It0xd1RT2K

#GPT4 Designed a programming language while I... did almost nothing.

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

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[Nick St. Pierre @nickfloats]

I've been adapting my prompting for Midjourney v5 to include more natural language and it's working and freaking me out how good the results are.

🧵Examples w/ prompts in ALT tags & notes at the end

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

@Medicilio me dijo al teléfono, abiertamente: "esto es un hospital privado y estos son los precios. Si no te gustan, vete a otro hospital". Lo mejor de todo es que ni siquiera me diagnosticaron bien, lo que tenía era un hongo, no una infección bacteriana 🤦🏽‍♂️

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

@Medicilio Corroboro al 100%. Soy residente en EEUU desde hace años. Me pasó prácticamente lo mismo en el 2015: infección de oído, mucho dolor, fui a urgencias. Me vio un enfermero y luego un doctor un par de minutos cada uno, me dieron un paracetamol de 1g y un antibiótico, y una receta...

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

@Medicilio para más antibióticos. Factura total: $1250, de los cuales mi seguro cubrió 1000, es decir que mi co-pago fueron 250 pavos. Por 40 minutos y dos pastillas, que cuestan céntimos cada una. Llamé para protestar y después de marearme durante semanas, una señora del hospital...

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

@PayPal I’ve started receiving this kind of emails from you. This is clearly phishing, and vulnerable/not tech savvy users (aka my dad) are at risk. You need to strengthen your fraud filters asap:

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

“Yet it remains hamstrung by the filibuster, and by a minority party dedicated to upward redistribution.”

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

"The problem with our asset age is not that so much wealth has been generated. It is that so much wealth has been generated for so few," @AnnieLowrey writes: https://t.co/CFE9abVXHk

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

“The answer to our unequal age lies not in better monetary policy. It lies in better fiscal and regulatory policy. […] The power to alter the distribution of wealth and earnings—as well as expand the supply of child care, housing, energy, and everything else—lies with Congress.

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

https://t.co/WEPIobLlE5

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

I recently came across these 2 articles. Long, not new, not directly related to the recent Roe repeal either, but ever as relevant: it is essential for men to try to understand what it means to be a woman, socially & sexually, in a male-dominated society.

https://t.co/QqtVxUVSM9

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

Wow. Hard to tell at this point if this is the AI singularity, but it definitely feels closer. Also, the mainstream press take on it: https://t.co/ICZkZW2H3t

[Blue Trumpet Vine @_sambk]

It's much more likely that the headline here is the fact that a network can successfully play the part of a sentient machine so well that it it helped convince a Google technician to ruin his career. It's defo the most impressive emulation of human writing I've seen from a bot.

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

"He also wrote, in an autobiography, that he had once encountered a glowing raccoon that may or may not have been an alien."

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science: '... modern science ... is “the teamiest of team sports.”' https://t.co/KDNMwPS3kZ

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

"Kary Mullis, who received the chemistry prize in 1993 for creating PCR—a technique for copying DNA that is used in every biology lab around the world—became a vocal proponent of astrology, an equally vocal denier of human-made climate change, and the link between HIV and AIDS."

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

“Stupidity is a very specific cognitive failing: it occurs when you don’t have the right conceptual tools for the job. The result is an inability to make sense of what is happening and a tendency to force phenomena into crude, distorting pigeonholes.” https://t.co/LcYu5hAeuS

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

"Populism of the illiberal nationalist kind is what happens in a mass-electoral democracy when a decisive percentage of mobilized voters drops below a deep-literacy standard."

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

"Sent from my iPhone"
Powerful and urgent: we (collectively) need to build healthy habits with our digital devices. If we lose our ability for deep literacy, others will make decisions over our weak, surface-level capacity for attention and complex ideas:
https://t.co/mKOGXrkJxw

[Raúl de Novoa @Raunalyst]

"very likely, the advent of deep literacy, by enabling a new sense of interiority, is the proximate source of modernity via the rise of individual agency that it allowed."