Numa

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[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

Very cool to see Secretary-level officials 3D-printing replacement Black Hawk control knobs for pennies instead of replacing entire avionics assemblies for $47,000.

I am not a fan of buzzwords, but the impact of "digital natives" getting into leadership can't be overstated.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok 4 is the first time, in my experience, that an AI has been able to solve difficult, real-world engineering questions where the answers cannot be found anywhere on the Internet or in books.

And it will get much better.

[Numa @numasoul]

@William_Blake Do you have any conception of how we got to this position? There is an important spiritual element, but let’s not be naive about the reality international trade wrt Chinese goods and manufacturing.

Mounting a defense is not a weakness. Faux-Nietzschean blathering is.

[Numa @numasoul]

@yacineMTB Start getting all the security, diplomatic and economic benefits from China instead of America and see what happens.

Also your proximity to America plays a role. Compare America v Canada with China v Vietnam, Philippines or Taiwan.

[Numa @numasoul]

@nealkhosla Just like your dad!

[Numa @numasoul]

@daynagrayson @wolfejosh Let’s take the VC model down to 1 and 20, what do you say?

[Numa @numasoul]

@wolfejosh Yes! So let’s make the VC model 1 and 20. What do you say? Why do YOU need 2?

[Numa @numasoul]

@IterIntellectus Then we have some serious work to do. We will have failed as a civilization if the real world cannot at least compete with virtual worlds in dynamism, fulfillment, and awe.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The Internet Archive is back up with issues.

I hope we learned something.

There MUST be a patron to preserve the journey of humanity on the Internet as well as the arc of history.

It is as vital as freedom of speech. In fact one can not exist without the other one.

WE HAVE NO PATRON TO PRESERVE HUMANITY’S JOURNEY—ALL IN.

But preservation alone is not enough, trust that the primary materials are authentic, genuine and unadulterated is equally vital. We have absolutely no way of knowing if these archives have been “1984ed” at this point. And I do not blame the amazing folks that have built it.

What is the base cost to store a copy of the current Internet Archive? It is fully downloadable. The best method would be to bring the hard drives to the location.

The Internet Archive is about 50 petabytes and growing. The growth is several terabytes per minute. This is only about ~12% of the vital Internet.

The cost of 50 petabytes of storage can vary greatly depending on the type of storage and provider you choose. Here are some general estimates:

Cloud Storage e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure):
- Generally ranges from $20 to $25 per terabyte per month.
- Total cost for 50 PB: Approximately $1,000,000 to $1,250,000 per month.

On-Premises Storage Solution:
- Capital expenditure can range from $100 to $150 per terabyte.
- Total initial cost for 50 PB: Approximately $5,000,000 to $7,500,000, not including maintenance and operational costs.

None of these cost include the staff needed to make this all work.

Rough estimates but actual costs will vary with maintenance, service level agreements, and additional services like data transfer, redundancy, and security.

We are rapidly becoming the Amnesia Generation. I have thought this out for you for over 50 years and frankly you will not like what it will bring. Or society just got a taste of it.

ALL AI requires first principles training materials. If you follow me you know all of them are built on Internet Sewage (think Reddit “discourse”). Ingredients matter, Archives like this open source and open as a foundation will do some to offset the Sewage. But this is another issue. My point is do you see any AI company that has parasitically sucked this content have any moral base to save it?

The more you use AI the more you will value the pristine source materials. And most of them are being thrown away or we think k “they will save it”. Who are they? I have not found them.

They are you and me. But we need more.

The patron? Well there are folks that spend this amount of money on a vacation home. A home that they really will not live in and a home that is very likely to become an albatross to their heirs when they leave this reality.

Persevering the authentic, honest and vital Internet, well this will afford an immortality and fertile ground for their heirs.

Want help? I will help. I have been my entire life.

I’d be that patron, and perhaps as I move along in this world I will be afforded the grace to have this ability financially.

But with or without you, patron, I will continue to do what I can I can’t not do it.

For all of us, save wisdom, even if it is just a scrap of your reality. Teach children the vital reasons why. Empower true history teachers that love humanity and cut away from history teachers that see humanity as a disease.

Our true grandeur is the miracle hiding in the middle of imposed and mandated self hatred.

[Numa @numasoul]

@William_Blake Truly the question of our age. If cities cause communists then how will we build for the future? If communists are attracted to cities, how do we protect against their power/influence? Though I will say that it goes beyond “communism.” These people have deep seated resentment.

[Numa @numasoul]

@erichhartmann Napoleonic, truly.

[Numa @numasoul]

@BrianRoemmele What’s your recommended online file storage method? Do you self host?

[Numa @numasoul]

We’ll need to add Canada to the Greenland proposition.

[National Post @nationalpost]

FIRST READING: Donald Trump's sudden, wild popularity among young Canadians https://t.co/ehJ9MOUzN6

[Numa @numasoul]

@jamespoulos Have you done any research, writing, thinking about Toffler or is he irrelevant? I never see him popping up (only McLuhan and Lasch).

[Numa @numasoul]

@jamespoulos Alvin Toffler is almost never discussed anymore, but I feel like this is his time. We finally have glimpses of technology powerful enough to rapidly accelerate and a true future shock. You see this with boomers falling for the AI deep fakes.

[Numa @numasoul]

@zslayback Our present stagnation and sterility problems are theological in nature This was not the case during the High Middle Ages, tho that period is endlessly mocked for its religious foundations.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

We are emerging from a long period of collective forced demoralization, blinking in the sunlight of profound and ambitious achievement. 👀☀️

[Numa @numasoul]

@jamespoulos wtf

[Numa @numasoul]

@jamespoulos Did not see the MIA crossover coming. Cool.

[Numa @numasoul]

@jamespoulos Showing up to work like: