@Benthamsbulldog strong longtermism fails if the future trillions don't exist.
if they do exist, why am I alive right now among the first 100 billion humans?
our unlikely birth rank is the strongest empirical counterweight to the expected value of the far future.
Much of Twitter reads like GPT output now. Is this because:
1) Everybody uses it to write their tweets
2) GPT is trained to write like Twitter
3) LLMs and Humans are converging on the same sloppy attractor.
@gfodor people will shift to intrinsic architecture. mastery, aesthetics, human connection.
life will consist entirely of synthetic games where the objective stakes are low but our natural mimetic drive makes it feel real.
people will shift to intrinsic architecture. mastery, aesthetics, human connection.
life will consist entirely of synthetic games where the objective stakes are low but our natural mimetic drive makes it feel real.
Imagine the prices of all goods and services were slashed by 1000x, but if you tried to find a job, raise money for a startup, or sell anything yourself youโd find no counterparty whatsoever.
Now imagine thatโs true for most people.
Whatโs the logical solution to this?
Today the worlds most powerful genetic predictor of IQ, CogPGT, has been published in the peer reviewed journal Intelligence and Cognitive Abilities.
When used for embryo screening, it can substantially boost expected IQ of future offspring.
Read on for the scientific details!
@cremieuxrecueil my update on toxins (food, microplastics, teflon, et al) after a ton of research: avoidance is impossible; focus on resilience (body, mind) instead.
cowork has awful performance. here's what works for me:
1) private repo to build and test my claude code workflows (using @irl_danB 's openprose).
2) built a claude runner on a vps to invoke workflows async (deployed with gh actions from the repo)
3) https://t.co/CyR2SnAsoJ scheduler to manage the cron jobs
robust, reliable, extensible, with juiced cc tokens