social media may have fractured our ability to pay attention but AI is degrading our ability to reason.
If I struggle to concentrate, I may reason less often, but if I habitually delegate reasoning, I gradually, but wholly, erode my agency.
I’ve made this video as an intuition pump for the density of #synapses in the #brain. This volume ~ grain of sand, has >3.2 million synapses (orange cubes). Peeling them away leaves only inputs on 2 #neurons. Zooming in, we see the synapses localized to the dendritic spines.
#b3d
I can now load _basically_ every atom from an entire bacterial cell, into #blender3d and #geometrynodes via #molecularnodes. Each macromolecule is down to atomic detail where available via CellPack, totalling ~250,000,000 points, all rendering (quite quickly) in Cycles #b3d
Introducing the @sequoia Gen AI Market Map!🌎 We’ve decided to map out this emerging frontier, thanks to all the contributions and feedback we’ve received.
This space is moving quickly – this map is a living document, so keep the suggestions coming! Who else should we include?
This is the (logarithmic) timeline of an expanding universe. We live at the 3rd line from the left and all stars will disappear in 10¹⁴ years (4th line). Then there will be 10¹⁰⁰ year of just black holes and then, the Dark Era
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I recently came across data on who we spend our time with over the course of our lives.
The insights are simultaneously inspiring and depressing.
Here are 6 graphs everyone needs to see:
Sequoia invested in a $420m round in FTX at a $25B valuation in October 2021 and a consortium with Paradigm invested $400M at $32B in January 2022.
And now it's selling in a fire sale?
This is a truly crazy event in startup world. Dot-com bust level event