African Socrates

Thoughts expressed as tweets.

[African Socrates @AfricanSocrates]

“Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody is willing to die.”
- Unknown

[African Socrates @AfricanSocrates]

You can apply this to almost any African state.

[Takura Zhangazha @TakuraZhangazha]

Ah, I am begining to understand the new youth culture in #Zimbabwe. The young cdes dont value intellectualism, equality values, let alone reading. They just want opportunities to make money. Ethically or unethically. Its a national crisis. Thanks to the current government.

[Oluyomi Ojo @OluyomiOjo]

How to Unf*ck Your Life. Nine things that work whether you started with nothing or everything. Zero motivational content. https://t.co/7fvdsZpoRS

[Mo Zarrinsadaf @MoZarrinsadaf]

Your mind chooses a familiar hell over an unfamiliar heaven.

[The Mind Scourge @TheMindScourge]

AI may give us unlimited geniuses

But how many geniuses do we need, and do most people have anything to say to them?

150+ IQ people aren’t usually the most productive people either. They tend to be very “jagged”. Highly innovative sometimes in a certain narrowly defined domain, and often useless elsewhere.

It isn’t necessarily the case at all that more geniuses produces more innovation and discovery; the trajectory of the 20th century seems the opposite of this. IQ level rises and the absolute number of people at the extreme tail explodes, yet innovation doesn’t scale linearly with this. “Clustering” - more highly capable people crowding into a few areas - seems the more typical pattern

The early 20th century doesn’t seem to have been much harmed by having many fewer high IQ types. There were maybe 1000 theoretical physicists at work globally in 1920, yet they revolutionized physics. We have at least 10x this maybe at work today, and yet the quality of their work product is nowhere near as impactful

I think the median person has already reached the limit of what they can usefully do with AI models. Most people don’t need Astra. It’s being used as glorified Google search. The chess models show us the way. You’re playing a chess engine with an Elo of 3700. You don’t need this. It’s way too overpowered. They’re already nerfed extensively for almost everyone to make it fun.

I posted a year or two ago about how I wondered what the *dumb* uses of AI were. We’re making smarter and smarter models, and that’s useful and some people will get advantage out of them.

But most people will have nothing to say to these brilliant machines. Just like they have nothing to say to Einstein. What’s the nerfed version of AI? One with an Elo of 1000? That’s probably the sweet spot

Same with military equipment. The AK-47 is a great weapon not because it’s particularly good. It isn’t. It’s arguably a bad gun. But you can use it with little training. It can be abused. You can get dirty. Dumb untrained drunk people can use it. That’s why it’s good, and why it was so widely adopted

Everyone’s focusing on the highest upper end when it comes to AI. We need to be thinking more about the low-median end.

[Pipita @mcpipita]

USA is a whole continent, UK and Europe are a whole continent via Schengen visa. Africa on the other hand is 52 districts of people thinking others are foreigners.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you want something from someone, make it clear what. It's not imposing to ask explicitly for something; it's imposing to be vague and make the recipient work to figure out what you want.

[African Socrates @AfricanSocrates]

Crazy.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Venezuela’s Maduro releases new photos from prison.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Government can lie to you.
Government has lied to you.
Government is lying to you.
Government will lie to you.

Live your life accordingly.

[Mo Zarrinsadaf @MoZarrinsadaf]

LinkedIn might be the fakest place on the internet.

[African Socrates @AfricanSocrates]

Discipline is just math.

[African Socrates @AfricanSocrates]

Cost is a distraction. Worth is everything.

[African Socrates @AfricanSocrates]

Do it, you’ll die anyways.

[African Socrates @AfricanSocrates]

@TheIcahnist Great article.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Good morning. Today is going to be a great day. Let’s get after it relentlessly.

[African Socrates @AfricanSocrates]

To what end, sir?

[I. Cox @IanECox]

Enough of this back and forth.

We REALLY need to just get on with World War Three.

[African Socrates @AfricanSocrates]

Outrageous.

[Sable @SableAfrica]

The US has made a financial guarantee scheme permanent. Under the new rule, travelers from 30 African countries applying for US business or tourism visas will be required to pay a refundable deposit of up to $20,000 before their visa is approved.

The 30 countries affected are:
1. Nigeria
2. Algeria
3. Angola
4. Benin
5. Botswana
6. Burundi
7. Cabo Verde
8. Central African Republic
9. Côte d'Ivoire
10. Djibouti
11. Ethiopia
12. Gabon
13. The Gambia
14. Guinea
15. Guinea-Bissau
16. Lesotho
17. Malawi
18. Mauritania
19. Mauritius
20. Mozambique
21. Namibia
22. São Tomé and Príncipe
23. Senegal
24. Seychelles
25. Tanzania
26. Togo
27. Tunisia
28. Uganda
29. Zambia
30. Zimbabwe

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

I think all government establishments should be run on pay as you go meters. If they don't pay, they don't have electricity. Simple. This should be a policy championed by the public. The public is already using those meters, the government must comply too.

[Kaguya’s Top Gal @hayasaka_aryan]

>Spain takes a Pro Palestine stance
>Spain refuses to help with the Iran war
>Mysteriously, a wave of illegal immigrants from Africa hits their shores and a bunch of Israelis promote it

There is no such thing as a coincidence

[African Socrates @AfricanSocrates]

@Jewels_MsJay @R_eq_uin Wow.