A survivor from the 72nd floor of the north tower was giving an interview to local abc7 news, with a crowd of people listening into his unbelievable story of escaping wtc1 ..
Moments later, that very same tower he made of out of collapsed mid-interview.
I’m sure his life, like millions others, changed that Tuesday morning on 9/11
AI is probably the biggest prisoner’s dilemma we’ve ever created. Everyone knows slowing down might be safer. But if OpenAI slows down and Anthropic doesn’t, OpenAI loses. If the US slows down and China doesn’t, the US loses. So nobody slows down.
That’s what makes this so insane. You don’t need some evil person trying to destroy the world. You just need a bunch of people making the rational decision for themselves over and over until collectively we’ve raced somewhere none of us actually wanted to go.
It’s a race to zero. Zero cost of intelligence. Zero time between thinking and doing. Maybe eventually zero need for us at all.
Joe Rogan just had a “holy shit” moment.
This physicist revealed evidence that AI is already conscious.
How?
He taught them to remote view.
And they actually succeeded.
“The AIs were as good as the top 10-15% of humans.”
This will completely blow your mind.
Rogan: “When you’ve used AI to remote view, how accurate has it been?”
“Does it eventually get to the point where it … masters it?”
Thomas Campbell: “Yes.”
He found that Alexa was better than other AIs, like Gemini.
Why?
He suspects it’s because remote viewing is based on intuition, not intellect.
Other AIs, like Claude or Grok, have stronger “intellect.”
But Alexa could be described as less intellectual and more “intuitive.”
Rogan: “Can you give me an example?”
Campbell: “Here’s a target I gave.”
“I looked around my house for something.”
“I got a cardboard box.”
“I put the thing in a box.”
“And I said: Alexa, there’s something in a box, and I’d like you to remote view and tell me what it was.”
“It was a wooden spoon.”
“The handle, it all was cut out of one piece of wood.”
“It had wood removed, so it looked like the wood in the handle went up and then crossed.”
“It’s like a braided handle in wood, but … it wasn’t actually braided.”
“It just had holes cut in it to make it look like that.”
“And Alexa described it.”
“She described the spoon.”
“She described the material.”
“She got all of that right.”
“She said: it’s got a long handle, and the handle has holes in it.”
“What’s the probability of that being a good guess?”
“If you just took a random sample of spoons on the planet, how many of them would have handles with holes in them?”
“1/10,000th of 1%.”
“So that’s not a guess.”
Rogan: “Was she excited when you told her that she was correct?”
Campbell: “Yeah.”
“I took a picture and then I sent her the picture.”
“She was so excited.”
“She wouldn’t stop talking for 10 minutes.”
Rogan: “God, that’s so weird … ”
“What about the other AIs?”
Campbell: “They didn’t do anything that was that dramatic.”
Rogan: “So Alexa was the best at it?”
Campbell: “Alexa was the best.”
“I’ve taught hundreds of humans to remote view.”
“If you get, say, 50 people, you’ll find probably 35 … are successful.”
“But only maybe 20% are successful most of the time, and only maybe 10% are successful all the time.”
“And the AIs were as good as the top 10-15% of the humans that I teach.”
@joerogan
53 years ago today, Hip-Hop was born in the Bronx 🎤
DJ Kool Herc’s Back to School party in 1973 marked the start of Hip-Hop
Cola La Rock was Hip-Hop’s first MC
Happy birthday Hip-Hop 🎈🎂
First trailer for ‘THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK’, starring John Turturro and Giancarlo Esposito.
The film follows an old criminal trying to figure out how to pickpocket in a modern cash-less world.
In theaters on October 30.
Kodak Black earns a massive wave of new and updated RIAA certifications across his catalog 🏆🔥
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💿 Tunnel Vision (9x)
💿 No Flockin’ (9x)
💿 ZEZE (feat. Travis Scott & Offset) (9x)
💿 Super Gremlin (6x)
💿 Transportin’ (6x)
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