Shawn Hack

Futurist • Transhumanist • AI Maximalist • Immortalist • Singularitarian since 2000 • Retired Software Engineer • Crypto since 2011

[Shawn Hack @ShawnHack]

Singularity: Kurzweil on 2045, When Humans, Machines Merge - TIME - http://goo.gl/toKEc

[Derya Unutmaz, MD @DeryaTR_]

We are going through an existential timeline for billions of humans:

1. If we didn’t have AI, every human alive today, all 8 billion, including those born today, will have died by 2150.

2. Instead, with AI advancing, billions of people alive today will see 2150, 2250, & beyond!

[Shawn Hack @ShawnHack]

@Anne_Ill_404 Thanks Anne 😊
We'll be able to soon

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Bridge to Immortality

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Law of Accelerating Returns

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Posthuman Branches

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Becoming More

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Epigenetic reprogramming is able to restore cells to a youthful state.

With AI accelerating this research we are getting close to reaching longevity escape velocity and age reversal

[BiotechTV @BiotechTV]

𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬: BiotechTV visited @newlimit in South San Francisco and heard from Co-Founder & President @jacobkimmel how they are trying to tackle diseases of aging through epigenetic reprogramming.

[Shawn Hack @ShawnHack]

Recursive Dawn

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Neural Bloom

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@rand_longevity It's about time

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AI will soon replace all human jobs

We are moving into a post-labor world

[jack @jack]

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

[Shawn Hack @ShawnHack]

It was Kurzweil who made me see the future back in 2000 with The Age of Spiritual Machines

[Mark Gadala-Maria @markgadala]

Ray Kurzweil said AGI by 2029.

He said it in 1999. Everyone laughed.

He said it in 2012. Everyone ignored him.

He's saying it in 2026. Now every major AI lab has the same internal timeline.

Same prediction. But now everyone is a believer.

[Shawn Hack @ShawnHack]

The journey ahead

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Age reversal will be here soon

[vitrupo @vitrupo]

David Sinclair says we’ll find out this year whether aging is reversible.

His lab reversed biological age in animals by 75% in six weeks. The FDA has cleared the first human trial.

Aging may be information loss.

Information can be restored.

[Shawn Hack @ShawnHack]

@Dr_Singularity Most people will be completely taken by surprise when the world changes seemingly overnight.

They don't recognize that this is fundamentally different from anything that has come before in the history of life on Earth.

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https://t.co/0JoU9vrtZ0

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@demishassabis @agarfinks @FortuneMagazine @IsomorphicLabs Exactly. AI is the key to eliminating aging and disease. It will be possible soon with these efforts. Amazing work at Isomorphic pushing 10x faster

[Shawn Hack @ShawnHack]

Jensen is right. When intelligence is basically free, we don't cure one disease. We end aging, suffering, and death itself

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 AI made intelligence cheap enough to solve everything at once

Jensen Huang says what took a year now takes a day. Progress is a million times faster every 10 years.

New engineering mindset: "Why cure just cancer? Let's end all human suffering."

When intelligence is free, why stop at one problem?

Source: @clashreport

[Shawn Hack @ShawnHack]

https://t.co/fEkohcNECs

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New paper showing that cryopreservation preserves all the intricate structures of the brain and leaves no ice damage.

Evidence keeping mounting that cryonics revival will be possible

[Kai Micah Mills @kaimicahmills]

the long-awaited paper showing structural preservation of a human cryopreservation patient’s brain from greg fahy et al is out

we can see clearly identifiable synapses, intact membranes, and no evidence of ice damage, even after years in liquid nitrogen storage

🧊🧠