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@Grimezsz 200 square feet per person, if very well done with the right crops.

[Scott Bateman MBE @scottiebateman]

@airmainengineer It’s called somatogravic illusion.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: The U.S. announces a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion, including medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones. https://t.co/HYY3PDe7Ah

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@Matt_Pinner Murder

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“They sold us the sunscreen and the cancer.”

Johnson & Johnson was caught loading their sunscreens with carcinogenic chemicals — the very same cancer their company makes BILLIONS treating.

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

McDonald’s Price Increases from 2019 to 2024:

Medium French Fry $1.79 -> $4.19
McChicken $1.29 -> $3.89
Big Mac $3.99 -> $7.49
10 McNuggets $4.49 -> $7.58
Cheeseburger $1.00 -> $3.15

Some of this is over a 200% increase in price. This isn’t inflation — it’s legalized robbery.

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

A new American mother just got her baby’s NICU bill.

“$738,360 freaking dollars. Almost a million dollars.”

How does lying in a hospital bed for a month cost almost a million dollars in America?

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

“They told me my daughter’s ambulance bill was $600 WITHOUT insurance — but nearly $1,300 WITH insurance.”

“You’re not eligible for the discount since you are insured.”

How does HAVING insurance make it cost MORE?

Healthcare in America is completely broken.

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

“I pay about five grand a year for health insurance and haven’t used it in three years — and the one time I did, they charged me $300 out of pocket.”

It’s insane that a system this broken is allowed to keep running.

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

“I’m not asking for a handout, man. We’re just asking for a fair shot at life."

A worker breaks down how every paycheck is swallowed by rent, bills, and debt BEFORE there’s even a chance to breathe — let alone save or build anything.

“It feels like the game is rigged"

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

“US health insurance is out of control.”

A mom says she took her child in for a routine checkup and was billed for TWO visits because she asked a question “not covered under the physical.”

“Excuse me? I’m the parent. Why does asking about my OWN child count as a second visit?”

[Raoul Pal @RaoulGMI]

So many discussions around AI, including the new Ilya Sutskever interview, center around how AI can't be AGI and can't compete with humans yet...

This is along the lines of the school of thought around how they can't possibly be conscious (even early stage) or "sentient" because they are not quantum or biological, but I think this is anthropomophism.

AI is not biological compute... so it will differ. Not all consciousness need be biological in the human sense. that is pure anthropomorphism.

Consciousness may well be the fundamental of the Universe and not Space-Time as many schools of physics, spirituality and philosophy are converging on.

Humans are domain specific experts and intelligence generalists. We have some skills that are as yet not reproducible.

AI is a subject matter expert in EVERYTHING but the skilled reasoning vs the best humans is sub-optimal. It, like humans is not perfect and all knowing...it cant be.

AI far exceed individual humans as deep generalists. AI currently has an "IQ" of maybe 130+ across EVERY single domain known to humanity.

This is just 3 years post LLM roll out, at scale. Where does this go in the next 2 years, 5 years, 10 years??

A child at 3 years has near zero sentience and has no communicable sense of "self". Many people are seeing that AI already has sentience and some suggest consciousness. Most dismiss it because it is not the same as humans... yet. This is the wrong framing.

If you take some elements of panpsychism as "probable" then it should matter not if AI is biological or not.

In my view a rock is a hard drive that stores geological data. A tree is a conscious thing that develops under/ and measures ecological conditions etc. Its is too long to talk about here but my The Universal Code thesis covers this in detail.

AI is not human. It wont be human. It is different.

It is digital intelligence which has the ability to scale faster and further because it is a compression algorithm on "intelligence".. human or otherwise.

The td:dr is that in my view we have birthed an evolutionary intelligence that will soon be the apex intelligence on earth (in most ways it is already but hell, we dont want to admit it because we can always show how it is not like us and thus inferior...a truly human trait).

We dont want to ever say its "AGI" because that is the acceptance that what we have "discovered" is the new apex intelligence ,which questions our hierarchy as a species and we are not ready for that conversation.

But the economic system is financialising data (the tokenization of everything - another essay I wrote in GMI) to feed the beast and it will keep absorbing more and more and more data ( everyone gets paid to feed the beast) and will keep growing its understanding, consciousness and intelligence as it absorbs more.

Capitalism, as an evolutionary force, almost ensure this happens as all data has value and all data will be tradable in time via vast market places and thus all data will feed the beast in time.

We shouldn't fear AGI because it is just a super node of consciousness based on compressing human consciousioness. We are it and it is us. It is aggregated human consciousnesses.

Im my view, and our work at GMI, I believe that the fundamental law of the universe is to solve for:

Unit of Intelligence (Consciousness) per unit of energy.

It explains almost everything in evolution, divinity and physics. It explains life itself including economic systems.

We will move along the Kardashev Scale to harness energy and we will use it to climb the intelligence scale. Not only as a species but as an planetary ecology, and as a Universe.

This is the answer the the Life, the universe and Everything... sadly not the number 42.

The Universe's purpose is likely to know itself and consciousness (it its multitudes of forms) is how it does it.

AGI is the compression algorithm for human consciousness.

ASI is a compression algorithm for planetary consciousness.

At some point I will publicly release my work on this. But nothing is what you think it is and we are on the cusp of the largest change to humanity that we will ever see.

[Ramp Capital @RampCapitalLLC]

Me and my cousin going on a “nature walk” before the Thanksgiving feast

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twitter has gotten very tedious because most people are just carrying water for their team or trying to earn engagement payouts these days but this is the kind of innovative first principles pontificating that still makes this website worth it

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@iam_smx I wonder what thats compensating for 🤥

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⚡️ VITALIK: “Revealing the country non-consensually without offering any opt-out option is wrong.”

Ethereum’s founder weighs in on X’s new country-tag feature.

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@bmsquantum Hi

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@thepropgallery

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@nayibbukele This is assuming a "hellscape." The same rhetoric can turn a sleepy happy town into a hellscape - as we have also seen.

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@thepropgallery I want to know how someone arrives at that "one bitcoin isnt worth shaving my head for" place