Dennis Kamunya

I fought and I lost, now I rest

[Dennis Kamunya @kamunyaaaaa]

Even though anxiety/depression/drug addiction kicked my ass, I still count myself lucky.

[Dennis Kamunya @kamunyaaaaa]

The greatest thing about my life was that I got to learn about evolution. I belonged to one of the few generations that got to know how and possibly why we are here.

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

His greatest idea. With lots of illuminating subtleties worked through.

[Prof. Lee Cronin @leecronin]

The claim that this proof of life is only has a 0.3% of being wrong is NOT CORRECT. The researchers have modelled the data and come up with a 3 sigma detection event. However this is missleading as the model could be wrong.

[Ben Lamm @BenLamm]

When you tell your kids you are going to see Jurassic Park, do you tell them you are seeing a moving about dinosaurs? Is that accurate? Or is it a movie about genetically modified birds with "dino" dna, and frog dna, and a bunch of other dna in the newest ones? This is a philosophical question. Not a scientific one.

[Ben Lamm @BenLamm]

Thank you for taking the time to lead an actual thoughtful discussion. Sadly, most academics (minus the 95 scientific advisors we work with that are world-renowned in their respective fields) do not even want to focus on the other incredible facts here like our genome engineering, ancient DNA analysis, cloning, our careful selection of edits that resulted in healthy animals - all in a non-model species. Or the fact that we came up with a new blood-based cloning technique and cloned four critically endangered red-wolves. I rarely engage in comments but thought your thorough review was worth commenting on - appreciate the thought and time you put in.

[Dr. James G. Napoli @JGN_Paleo]

Yesterday, @TIME broke news of a landmark advance in gene editing and de-extinction. This piece has proven divisive, and many criticisms I have seen are misplaced or incorrect. This 🧵 is intended to provide my take, based on my own expertise, and set the record straight.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"I am sometimes taken aback by how people can have a miserable day or get angry because they feel cheated by a bad meal, cold coffee, a social rebuff or a rude reception. We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance of occurrence of monstrous proportions. Imagine a speck of dust next to a planet a billion times the size of earth. The speck of dust represents the odds in favor of your being born; the huge planet would be the odds against it. So stop sweating the small stuff. Don’t be like the ingrate who got a castle as a present and worried about the mildew in the bathroom. Stop looking at the gift horse in the mouth – remember you are a Black Swan." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

Everything from the smallest subatomic particle to the entire galaxy is evolving. While everything apparently dies or disappears in time, the truth is that it all just gets reconfigured in evolving forms. Remember that energy can’t be destroyed—it can only be reconfigured. So the same stuff is continuously falling apart and coalescing in different forms. The force behind that is evolution.

For example, the primary purpose of every living thing is to act as a vessel for the DNA that evolves life through time. The DNA that exists within each individual came from an eternity ago and will continue to live long after its individual carriers pass away, in increasingly evolved forms.

[Prof. Brian Keating @Briankeating]

Because it:
1.Erodes Public Trust
Misinformation corrodes confidence in scientific institutions, experts, and the peer-review process. Once trust is lost, it’s hard to restore.

2.Pollutes the Knowledge Ecosystem
False claims—especially from charismatic or credentialed individuals—spread faster than corrections, creating long-lasting cognitive residue.

3.Delays Scientific Progress
When energy is spent debunking, fewer resources are available for real research and education. It diverts curiosity into dead ends.

4.Encourages False Equivalence
Pairing unvetted ideas with expert opinion in a “debate” format gives the illusion of legitimacy to fringe or fabricated theories.

5.Misguides Policy and Public Behavior - misinformation influences decisions that can harm society on large scales.

6.Amplifies Through Virality
Platforms reward engagement, not accuracy. Sensationalism travels; nuance stalls.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my 5-hour conversation with @dylan522p and @natolambert on DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft, TSMC, Stargate, megacluster buildouts, RL, reasoning, and a lot of other topics at the cutting edge of AI. This is was a mind-blowing, super-technical, and fun conversation.

Yes, we discuss r1 and o3-mini, but more importantly we look into the future of technology, geopolitics, and humanity in a world that stands on the precipice of a global AI revolution.

The first 4 hours are here on X (4 hours is current limit), and the full 5 hours are up everywhere else. Links in comment.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
3:33 - DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3
25:07 - Low cost of training
51:25 - DeepSeek compute cluster
58:57 - Export controls on GPUs to China
1:09:16 - AGI timeline
1:18:41 - China's manufacturing capacity
1:26:36 - Cold war with China
1:31:05 - TSMC and Taiwan
1:54:44 - Best GPUs for AI
2:09:36 - Why DeepSeek is so cheap
2:22:55 - Espionage
2:31:57 - Censorship
2:44:52 - Andrej Karpathy and magic of RL
2:55:23 - OpenAI o3-mini vs DeepSeek r1
3:14:31 - NVIDIA
3:18:58 - GPU smuggling
3:25:36 - DeepSeek training on OpenAI data
3:36:04 - AI megaclusters
4:11:26 - Who wins the race to AGI?
4:21:39 - AI agents
4:30:21 - Programming and AI
4:37:49 - Open source
4:47:01 - Stargate
4:54:30 - Future of AI

[Sara Imari Walker @Sara_Imari]

“Now” is totally new. Our historical analogies often fail us because we confuse how the past was necessary to construct the present with the idea that the past is repeating itself, and right now we happen to live in a time when our narratives are particularly far behind.

[Dennis Kamunya @kamunyaaaaa]

@lexfridman @ZelenskyyUa Thanks Lex. Can't wait to listen

[Dennis Kamunya @kamunyaaaaa]

@harajuk_ubarbie You should definitely try psychedelics at least once in your lifetime. Most direct path to a true ego death I know of.

[Black @LilithBlack25]

Monday is Monday.
#RutoMustGo

[Dennis Kamunya @kamunyaaaaa]

@eyeslasho No way anyone in these comments has actually read the article. The headline is misleading. The message is actually really wholesome. Please read the article first folks!

[Dennis Kamunya @kamunyaaaaa]

@eyeslasho 2/ Chances are that if we went back in time and swapped the founding fathers with other sensible men, the constitution would look very different

[Dennis Kamunya @kamunyaaaaa]

@eyeslasho 1/ Who gets to decide what that descriptive foundation is?! Lmao, the declaration of independence isn't even based on scientific facts.