Dude Sr.

Optimist / Lover of Wisdom

[Dude Sr. @lukeriddle]

@DCinvestor Outstanding insights. Although a bit doomer’ish, I think you have good instincts on the challenges we’re facing.

[Dude Sr. @lukeriddle]

@Polymarket Why is there no YoutubeTV / Disney reconciliation market?!

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

The history of the future will be unwinding the great mess of postmodern moral relativism and finding our way back to virtue.

[Dude Sr. @lukeriddle]

@Polymarket: Do markets predict the future, entering the realm of magic? Or does reality contort itself to fit markets, becoming plastic manifestations?

[Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 @Chris_arnade]

Social media is the dog ate my homework for pundits unwilling, or unable, to look at how western culture has changed over last 50 yrs.

Dismantling any form of unified culture has been at the core of modern secular liberalism — emancipation from all communal bonds, as provincial obligations holding back someone’s true inner self, is their understanding of human Telos, to the degree they think that deeply.

This has been their goal. Sorry Facebook apparently upset it.

[Dude Sr. @lukeriddle]

Did they know?!

[wanye @xwanyex]

My kids are still young and already I’m noticing that a big part of the project of raising them is just explaining over and over again that the culture is lying to them about how bad we are

[Dude Sr. @lukeriddle]

These findings means an absolutely seismic shift in our understanding of everything in our universe. It calls us to (again) ask big questions and open our minds to novel ways of understanding. Up with curiosity and down with dogma!

[cascadian realism fan 🌲 @realism_fan]

Ahahahaha, the James Webb Space Telescope continues to deliver massive L’s for astrophysics.

A new paper shows that the “Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation” can be explained entirely by the energy of recently discovered Early Mature Galaxies — massive galaxies that the JWST discovered which crushed the existing models of galaxy formation because they formed much earlier than astrophysicists thought possible.

But now these EMGs turn out to account for the entire energy density of the CMB radiation, which was believed to be a “snapshot” of the first light emitted after the Big Bang, when the universe was ~379,000 years old. The variations in the CMB were believed to be relics of quantum fluctuations in the dense plasma of the Big Bang.

If these new findings are accepted (and there’s no reason not to accept them), then all of the following flagship findings of cosmology are thrown into question:

— Big Bang theory: foundational cosmological model undermined
— Cosmic inflation: loses observational justification
— ΛCDM model: key parameters become unreliable
— CMB power spectrum: loses predictive relevance
— Dark energy: inferred from CMB; may be mischaracterized
— Dark matter density: current estimates may be invalid
— Age of the universe: must be recalculated
— Primordial nucleosynthesis: needs alternative explanation
— Hubble constant (H₀): no longer reliably constrained by CMB
— Large-scale structure formation: initial conditions unclear
— Reionization epoch: timing and cause questioned
— Cosmic distance ladder: calibration may be flawed
— ISW (Integrated Sachs–Wolfe) effect: interpretation invalidated
— Acoustic peaks in CMB: no longer evidence of primordial sound waves
— Polarization of the CMB: origin needs reassessment
— Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO): decoupled from CMB
— Cosmic curvature: flatness inference challenged
— Matter–radiation equality timing: re-evaluated
— Gravitational lensing of CMB: loses standard interpretation
— Planck and WMAP findings: foundational assumptions invalidated

My friends, do not listen to scientists when they act like they have everything figured out and you’re a retard for questioning them. They have abandoned the humility needed for scientific discovery long ago, and it’s only when new findings arrive with shock and awe that their hubris is exposed.

[RosieJR @RosieJRiddle]

I am honored to accept the position of Kentucky President Chapter of Stand With Crypto. If you are a Kentuckian and have an interest, or better yet, passion for crypto and blockchain technology, please reach out! I would love to connect!

[Dude Sr. @lukeriddle]

Who are the sheep still silly enough to consider @neiltyson a serious person? An absolute fraud in a sycophantic vampire suit.

[Dude Sr. @lukeriddle]

The Legend of OWEH! Go Big Blue!

[Matt Corva @MattCorva]

From my desk as sent to employees during office hours:

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

Gödel's incompleteness theorem and the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics have had devastating effects on the epistemology of people who don't fully understand them; exposure to these ideas should require a security clearance

[Dude Sr. @lukeriddle]

Yesterday’s crypto action

[Wild content @Nocapmedia]

This is wild

[Dude Sr. @lukeriddle]

@TOEwithCurt Honolulu

[Dude Sr. @lukeriddle]

A core concern regarding the LLM approach to AI & AGI is the assumption that we can reconstruct and then synthesize cognition from language in abstract.

[RYAN SΞAN ADAMS - rsa.eth 🦄 @RyanSAdams]

Vitalik Buterin deserves a Nobel prize in economics for his work on crypto and Ethereum.

The fact that he’s barely considered shows how much ivory tower economists are disconnected from applied theory.

Future generations will judge their absence in harshly.

Crypto is the greatest economic innovation of our era and 98% of economists alive are missing it.

[Donald Hoffman @donalddhoffman]

“It was officially the wildest idea he’d had yet. A universe made not of matter, not of space-time, not of stuff at all, but of our choices ... He’d pried up space-time, peered beneath, and found himself staring, to his bewilderment, at a mirror.”

https://t.co/M6k7YcuhKa

[Dude Sr. @lukeriddle]

While we consider OpenAI's o3 and the potential of ARC-AGI benchmarking, which are predominantly analytical in nature, let's be careful not to overgeneralize these to human cognition. Our minds are a complex interplay of both left and right hemispheric thinking, which together create the robustness of human thought. Over-emphasizing one aspect should not come at the neglect of the other. Similarly, expert left hemispheric thinking, devoid of the right hemisphere's capacity for abstraction, does not equate to a comprehensive comparison with human cognitive processes.

We must remember that intelligence, especially in the human context, involves more than just logical and analytical prowess; it includes creativity, intuition, and the ability to see beyond the immediate data or problem at hand. As we advance AI, let's aim for a balance that reflects the full spectrum of human cognitive abilities.

#AI
#CognitiveScience