It’s philosophical pessimism, the preference for certain death/extinction in favor of a possible salvation.
Creating the knowledge and wealth to solve problems in time has gotten us this far, and it’s necessary to keep going indefinitely.
AI helps.
Pessimism sees help as a risk, and it’s been doing this dirty work from the beginning.
Humanity needs to snap out of it. We’ve made major progress on this front, but we have a long way to go, and AI data centers reveal the current state of the struggle.
Crypto gives people a way out.
Many countries suffer from high inflation, or volatile currencies. The only way most residents used to be able to escape was to move, or hoard cash.
Now stablecoins let them hold stronger global fiat currencies, like USD, far far easier, from anywhere in the world.
Breakdown of how modern LLM lineages evolved from the original 2017 Transformer:
1. Transformer (2017): Encoder-Decoder architecture designed for machine translation (English to German/French).
Singapore should support a JS-SEZ where law-abiding international businesses and workers are *explicitly* protected from intimidation and discrimination.
Not doing so brings literally no upside and only downside for Singapore. (1/3)
Right now, nationalist and socialist sentiment is fusing into something nasty.
“Get out of our city” = “get out of our country”
You can argue about ways to fix an economy or policy, but driving out talent probably isn’t the way to do it.
This is how new possibilities open up.
Kazakhstan bringing Starlink online — and @ns already building community there.
Looking forward to experiencing it firsthand in a few weeks.
@joinB0 will be serving engineers, doctors, lawyers, farmers, musicians and more around the globe fully from the techno-optimistic Kazakhstan soon, stay tuned! 🇰🇿 🚀
@stableshaman Today's AI is highly efficient only in adding more things, more bloats, more complexity to project artifacts. Great works are about clarity, refinement, subtraction from the project artifacts all the things except for those elements that truly matter.
Both of my parents are Malay.
My grandfather's dad was Toh Indera Wangsa Ahmad, the grandfather of Sultan Azlan Shah.
All it took for me to never be Malaysian enough was my KL-born grandmother’s Malay mother marrying a Ceylonese man.
And you think your situation can be better?
Network School is back.
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So: if you want to build a techno-optimist society with us, apply to Network School.
Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash : )
- it is fast!
- 50% lower price than 3.6 flash (through end of year)
- strong intelligence increase in only ~3 weeks (thanks to some awesome algorithmic improvements)
- available in the API, AI Studio, Antigravity, and more!