Gent Thaçi

Amidst the intertubes' profound abyss

[Gent Thaçi @GentThaci]

Hey @elonmusk can you please restore my old account with the same username?

[Koha Net @portalikohanet]

“Baresha” madhështore në Bernë🇨🇭 nga Filharmonia e Kosovës

[Gent Thaçi @GentThaci]

Endangered and exceptional: New insect species highlights Kosovo biodiversity hotspot https://t.co/Htfo1y4iE8 via @physorg_com

[Gent Thaçi @GentThaci]

Homemade bread, beans, lactic-fermented tomatoes, and cabbage juice, served with a mix of somborka and jalapeño peppers. C'est la vie.

[Public Hakita Is a Good Idea @HakitaDev]

As creator of said game: You should support indies if you can, but culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it. ULTRAKILL wouldn't exist if I hadn't had easy access to movies, music and games growing up.

If you don't have money, you can support via word of mouth.

[Rob Wiblin @robertwiblin]

One OpenAI critic calls it "the theft of at least the millennium and quite possibly all of human history." Are they right?

UCLA nonprofit law expert Rose Chan Loui and I discuss OpenAI's unprecedented gambit to ditch its nonprofit for good:

4:08 – How OpenAI carefully chose a complex nonprofit structure that failed
11:56 – OpenAI's new plan to go for-profit
14:49 – The nonprofit board is out-gunned, out-manned, out-numbered, out-planned. Who can help?
17:28 – Who would stand cheated in a bad for-profit switch?
28:03 – Has this happened before?
29:37 – Is it truly in the nonprofit's interest to sell control of OpenAI, or is it a bad deal?
36:10 – The difficulty of valuing OpenAI's future windfall profits
42:31 – Control of OpenAI is independently incredibly valuable and demands compensation
53:09 – What most miss: It's very important the nonprofit get cash and not just equity
1:05:36 – Is it a farce to call this an "arm's-length transaction"?
1:10:59 – How the nonprofit board can best play their hand
1:17:42 – Can Elon Musk mount a court challenge and how that would work

The volunteer nonprofit board is hugely outgunned by groups who would profit by tens of billions by screwing it over.

And it will take a heroic effort and help from some state attorneys general to get everything it's owed.

But that... just might happen.

We don't hold back on the opinions.

Episode available in audio and video on the 80,000 Hours Podcast here, on any app, or YouTube.

[Gent Thaçi @GentThaci]

Hi @elonmusk I made a rookie mistake back in the day—thought I was deactivating my account, but I actually deleted it (the UI wasn’t the best). Any chance you could work some magic and help me retrieve it? Would mean the world to me!

[Jessica @JessicaGenetics]

Short & sweet summary of my results:

001: Grounding for 30 minutes barefoot on grass significantly reduces red blood cell stacking

002: Grounding for only 10 minutes reduces red blood cells stacking. The cells stack back together after 50 minutes in a high nnEMF environment.

003: The reduction of stacking is not due to walking/blood circulation, but it may partially be due to access fresh air. Also, 5 min of grounding on grass was enough to reduce RBC stacking.

004: Grounding for 1 minute on grass was not long enough to reduce RBC stacking.

005: Grounding for 10 min on concrete somewhat effected RBC stacking, need to repeat.

006: Grounding on residential grass intensified RBC stacking for time variables: 10, 20, 40, 60 min.

007: Laying on a grounding pillowcase plugged into an outlet for 30 minutes reduced RBC stacking.

008: No change in RBC stacking after working out, getting sun, taking a shower, or eating.

009: Grounding through feet/ankles is not better than grounding through head/shoulders with a grounding pillowcase, both reduced RBC stacking well.

010: Standing on underground wires likely increases RBC stacking (explains 006 results). Grounding under a tree prevents & protects you from this, making tree grounding superior to grass grounding (*in a residential environment)

[Jessica @JessicaGenetics]

Grounding Study 001

Testing the impact of grounding/earthing on the tendency of red blood cells to clump together under the microscope (live slides)

Results thread: