Warren Whitlock

Futurist | Tech Strategist | Podcaster - Eliminating friction, scaling abundance through blockchain, AI, crypto & nanotechnology. On a mission to cure aging

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@LarryRosenthal No. I hope those aren’t on the final exam. I’m woefully behind on my fiction reads.

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We are coming up on Halloween so I'm thinking about scary stories.

I think we can do it in two words: "Government AI"

What two words are the most scary for you?

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@joelcomm @grok Like I said.. it saw more

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@joelcomm @grok Dang.. that’s captures my thoughts much better than anything I imagined.

Grok is sorta like a @joelcomm

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@GoldNutter It’s really the only choice.

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P(Doom) > 0

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@LarryRosenthal The goal is superpower for every human

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@GoldNutter I feel for you. I see such unimaginable progress and often feel left behind. Sometimes I say that I’m just waiting for my investments to pay off.. most often I’m wondering about my ability to crash and burn right before the big payoff. :)

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@WarrenWhitlock @grok can you make an image that illustrates the poetry of “I think of you as in my shadow that disappears when a brighter light illuminates you. “

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@Thionne_WTZ @PeterDiamandis It’s always this way. To focus on the very few that truly beleive their abundance comes from taking from other is to be looking in the relm of politicians.

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The biggest pushback on my presentations about abundance is how it may help only the rich.

Not my experience. The most productive positive people I know agree with @PeterDiamandis … there world isn’t a better place if we think we can leave some behind.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

I do not want a positive story that asks people to look away from suffering, but one that points to a place where suffering declined, names what worked, and invites more people to finish the job.

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@GoldNutter One can question my math but not my resolve :)

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If that were anywhere close to how things happen, I would have spent my life getting close to those in the 1%, no other course would make sense.

I hold that personal responsibility has to account for how my life turns out. For me, I believe it’s most of the cause. I know there are cases that can be made for other factors but I laugh out loud when I look at the nonsensical thretoric that comes from assuming a bad outcome is a successful guy’s evil plan.

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Nope. I just don’t agree with your percentage allocations. I’m most likely wrong using 10%, I think all children should have individual attention.

I can’t agree with most kids being left behind. That’s absurd. Just by mathematical structure, the majority aren’t left behind.. they are the average. One could say that the average need to be better (I’d agree, our education system is stuck in the 1800’s) but anytime I see the majority labeled as victims, I question the logic.

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Ha. I thought of that after posting.. of course you’ll confuse that sentence as me stating that the two are the same. That’s how ad hominem attacks work. Find some words and accuse the writer of deeper subtext.

Sorry, It’s not so clear but you are way off base. I didn’t mean to associate the two has having anything in common except their milquetoast-y outcomes.

I favor finding the 10% who need extra help and giving it to them. I don’t hold up the pack while doing it.

As for douchebags, I’ve met plenty from every persuasion.

I don’t know who you are attacking here. If you want to lump me into your evil capitalist meme, so be it. I’m comfortable getting a laugh and knowing my own intents.

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@LarryRosenthal I suppose you are a fan of No Child Left Behind and Communism.

I do see the appeal. Although anything like that would make me even more of a sore thumb.

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@joeyoung Tell me more.. what gets breached and what is the outage?

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That’s a wonderful example of how government makes everything worse.

1. An apparent genuine endorsement of tech that ‘super’
2. Overbearing EO
3. Agencies left to interpret the goal.
4. Nonsensical popup

I’m straining to see good intentions though that’s typical in any process that start such processes.

If NIH were not government, the market might give us superior outcomes. Regardless, there’d be less of this nonsense.

[Stephen Wolfram @stephen_wolfram]

Can we finally make a theory for Darwin's "Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful"?
Introducing ruliobiology as a path to general theory in biology, starting with foundations for a theory of biological form
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@mikeboysen S or A, I think we have to removed the I when government is involved.

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@LarryRosenthal Is Milquetoast your goal?

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No doubt that scary. But aren’t we saying the same thing. When the government controls or regulates, it’s can be the close in every way accept legal ownership.

So I think you are right. Regulated industries have all the gunk of politics and incompetency that government brings, larded onto companies who succeed by manipulating regs and laws and people in government rather than providing value.

I get how people are scared of AI. It’s unknown and seemingly going to be all powerful. Why would anyone want to hand that over to politics is beyond me.

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@retroamxev Very scary though I hold that regulation is just above allowing the government to do anything. :)