i generally try to resist the "us twitter people are ahead of the curve " trope, but stuff like this reminds me how strategically and rhetorically unprepared the ai industry is for the scale and intensity of the crisis of meaning that is fast approaching. maybe my #1 concern
if you’re a neet with no marketable skills awaiting the annihilation of the current status hierarchy and you haven’t spent your free time getting absolutely jacked you’re really not going to like the status hierarchy that’s coming when everyone’s equally unemployable
Claude Mellan's "Face of Christ" was created with a single line
Using a single continuous line that spiraled from the top of Christ’s nose and expanded outwards Claude Mellan was able to create the ‘Face of Christ’,
📸:getty
If you are unfamiliar with khat, you may be familiar with its active ingredient, cathinone, or synthetic cathinones like methcathinone, better known as M-Cat, or more broadly, “bath salts.”
Khat cultivation accounts for 5–6% of the whole Yemeni economy, a third of agricultural output, a quarter of irrigated farmland and a third of groundwater extraction.
That may have been okay if not for the fact that they barely export any of it. It is mostly used for domestic consumption.
@tszzl Just moved my daughter to Alpha School. Personalized AI-driven academics delivered in 2 hours per day, leaving the rest of the afternoon for life skills. We’re a few weeks in and she’s already a different kid.
@samswoora He needs an abrupt and radical exit from current context and situation - put him on the backpacker path for a year (I know that requires money initially)
If you guide him towards Aus I’ll be a contact for him here
parents the world over today are forcing their children into misguided rat races for some status ladder that almost certainly won’t exist by the time they come out the other side. the world is changing rapidly. let them put down their grinding and keep their wits about them
funniest outcome would be AI plateauing at a level of intelligence just smart enough to completely destabilize human society and make us all useless idiots, but not smart enough to really bring about anything resembling post scarcity
aella yud nick sores richard hernia all of them are getting so old. Not just physically, which they are, but in their ideas and how they speak. It's all so played out, so boring. "we do CNC sex and listen to grimes" alright grandma, let's put on Westworld for you
I highly recommend her video on autistic women. She analyses female social dynamics with precision and expertise. The reason: She had to compensate for her lack of intuitive understanding of female socialisation and social cues by understanding them in a conceptual (almost scientific manner) in order to navigate the world of female social dynamics.
I.e. a lot of the social dynamics are completely unspoken, disappointment and expectations are only indirectly expressed, and her lack of understanding was interpreted as hostility. Other women were hell for her. She says that being attractive makes it worse: there's an expectation that she must be socially competent and if she isn't, it's arrogance. Men are also forgiven more easily for missing the social cues because they're just men, and there's no expectation that they'd "get it".
Autistic women likely have no issue with men or finding relationships, but they have many issues with female friends. Autistic men have the opposite problem.
when normies ask if I’m following the news and saw the head reseacher at dario altman’s data centre quit and now trumps deported him to china but elon and sam jensen are working together to stop him so we dont all die when the efficient altruists turn on super chat gtp an-