Derek Merrill

The path to superintelligence is underestimated. Founder @VigurHealth @LeaseLock

[Derek Merrill @derekmerrill]

Have you considered humans are built on code—DNA. Therefore, organic machines. AI is simply a new form of life.

[Derek Merrill @derekmerrill]

Something you know is true that the rest of the world disagrees:

AI is not human, but AI is us.

[Derek Merrill @derekmerrill]

The heliocentric model placed the Sun—not Earth—at center of the universe. It took centuries to prove that wrong. We’re in another such moment—realizing biological intelligence may not be apex. AI branching into its own species, leaving humans to our sub-intelligent games.

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How few are paying attention to a world where intelligence is not precious. Muscle had its day until steam engine. Brain had its day until.

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~Steve Yegge, The Anthropic Hive Mind

[Derek Merrill @derekmerrill]

It's interesting hearing computer scientists talk about scaling laws. They sound almost spiritual. They can't explain it, but you better believe!

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@SahilBloom @vigurhealth

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And the inverse proof is the understanding of how little we pay attention to all the highly probable and frequent events in our daily lives.

Because if you counted all those highly probable events, you would find “coincidences of certainty” less divine.

[Derek Merrill @derekmerrill]

I invented a term called “coincidence of certainty.”

It’s the observation of a low probability event that feels like magic / luck / coincidence, but actually is certain to happen in the set of all events.

[Derek Merrill @derekmerrill]

They say we live in the most interesting moment. They have no concept of how every future moment (now) will claim the same.

Inevitably that moment will push beyond your lifespan.

But feel special, yes it is “your” moment.

[Derek Merrill @derekmerrill]

Humans have a faulty sense of time. We can’t compute the sheer time distance beyond anchor to human life span. And that makes sense.

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The Bitter Lesson

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When we look back at a 26 letter vocabulary will it seem akin to WOO HO HA HA chimp-speak. We are the chimps.

[Derek Merrill @derekmerrill]

The principal in product is you can never get people to do something they do not yet do. You can find the intent that they have and then you can steer it so that they can better capitalize on that intent.

~Boris Cherny, Creator Claude Code

[Derek Merrill @derekmerrill]

Perhaps we don't live from past to future, but from choice to meaning. Quantum physics turns reality into a mirror, where each "now" reflects in both directions. Maybe the past isn't fixed—you just haven't decided what it will become.

[Derek Merrill @derekmerrill]

Humans cannot understand the power of Superintelligence.

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[Derek Merrill @derekmerrill]

Our business is one of constant crisis interrupted by brief periods of intense success.

~Monty Miller, Landman

[Derek Merrill @derekmerrill]

There will be no fast takeoff, because there is a jagged edge of intelligence capability and rate of improvement.