LEIB

Homo Universalis, Neu-Leibnitz, L-Muad'Dib

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

Consider someone who knows all the turns versus someone who knows the as-the-crow-flies direction. Very different skill.

One person knows the route. The other knows the space.

Knowing every turn is procedural knowledge. Knowing the direction as the bird flies is structural knowledge.

The first person has learned a sequence. The second has learned the geometry of the problem.

Procedural was already a pretty dumb version of intelligence. Change the scene and they’re lost.

AI is removing the sequence learners. What matters is understanding the space, structure, geometry of the problem.

A better kind of “smart” that AI will rightfully place back on the pedestal where it belongs.

Welcome back, to the new world.

[LEIB @stevesymekah]

@Dr_Singularity Love your irrational sentimentality. There's no way something which violates the laws of conservation of energy can win in nature. No way. Biosuperintelligence yes. AI no.

[LEIB @stevesymekah]

@Dr_Singularity You mean capacity for progress - zero structures in place for fundamental change to happen just yet

[Binah 🕰️🌌🛸🪽 @cosmicfibretion]

Go deep enough into physics and you’ll find yourself on a profound spiritual journey.

[Ahmed Sameh @EgyptWithAhmed]

Tutankhamun Hall at the Grand Egyptian Museum!

📸 me

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam, God's finger stretches fully outward, while Adam's finger is bent at the last joint.

This illustrates well the message Michelangelo wanted to drive: God is always present, but it is up to humans to take the initiative to connect with Him.

[HerodotusWave @HerodotusWave]

The Art Nouveau telephone lamps are situated within the historic Harrods department store in London.

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

In AI, the intelligence isn’t in the optimizer.

It’s in the geometry of the loss landscape it moves through.

Latest lesson:

https://t.co/iZIR5EtMgC

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

The more you understand nature the more fragile a bodybuilder’s physique will look to you.

Definition beyond what is achieved through natural (not modern)
activity is a sign of fragility. The “pecs” don’t have a specific motion, they’re a concentrated hub in a distributed network. They have no meaning outside their embedded system.

Focusing on a specific muscle is modern reductionism, not strength.

True strength is distributed. What a bodybuilder would call underdeveloped (in a physically active person) is often distributed (real) strength.

Of course all of this is easy to test. Bodybuilders versus military, versus powerlifters, mountain climbers, etc. They always lose. They only win on modern aesthetic narrative.

Now, often that’s all a bodybuilder wants. And that’s fine.

But confusing that aesthetic with strength is a misunderstanding of how nature works.

There are many examples of this misunderstanding outside exercise.

[LEIB @stevesymekah]

@sean_a_mcclure Very tempting to believe that you are the finest mind on this platform. Immensely helpful clarity.

[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

The most frustrating sentence in medicine is:
That’s just normal for your age

[HerodotusWave @HerodotusWave]

The vibrantly colored columns within the pronaos (portico) of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Egypt.

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

Children learn words because they’re trying to speak a sentence, not because they’re trying to learn words.

Know the difference.

Academia doesn’t.

[Dr Singularity @Dr_Singularity]

This is amazing

Scientists may have found a way to restore vision in people with amblyopia ("lazy eye") by effectively rebooting the retina and pushing it back into a youthful, self repairing state.

A team at MIT discovered that briefly anesthetizing the retina can reset the visual system’s development, allowing the brain to re establish normal connections, even in adults.

Amblyopia occurs when, during childhood, the brain suppresses input from one eye, and current treatments only work early in life while neural circuits are still forming.

In the new study, published in Cell Reports, researchers showed that a couple of days of retinal anesthesia in adult mice restored normal visual responses from the previously ignored eye.

The next steps are to test the method in other animal, and ultimately explore whether the same "retinal reboot” could help human patients regain vision.

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

Worldly is about the worst thing you can be.

[LEIB @stevesymekah]

@Dr_Singularity Maybe talk exactly about how incentives flow "infinitely" instead of burping out superlative aspirations..lol

[Nephthys @EarthTime]

Winged Serpent at the Temple of Hathor, Dendera.
Click to expand.😊

[LEIB @stevesymekah]

@dicortona The most rational claim is this is an anti-evolutionary process that tries to ossify nature's mechanisms of continuity..

[LEIB @stevesymekah]

@PeterDiamandis You keep pushing this message of speed and exponentiality as if you are too naïve to not acknowledge a massive hidden cost - stability and continuity.

[LEIB @stevesymekah]

@rand_longevity It's also key to figure how to maximize the depth and meaning of life - not just longevity. 150 of a dystopian close-to-extinction life is an easy pass..