Novelist. I once invented medical devices and designed an automated pharmaceutical plant. Now I write about consciousness, evil, and where technology takes us.
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“What Ivan Ilyich sees on the sofa in the drawing room, in the fourth month of his dying, is that the life he had spent forty-five years assembling was not a life at all. It was a performance of a life. He had done what was expected. He had followed what was called proper. He had never asked, at any stage, whether the propriety and the career and the marriage and the house were what he was for. He had not asked because the asking was not part of the performance. And now, at the end, with the performance ending in a way no performance is supposed to end, he sees that the whole of it was an evasion of the question he was born to answer.
He screams because there is nothing else to do with the recognition. The recognition is what he is dying of, more than the tumor.”
— Alex Lucio
The Weight of the Wound
- How Suffering, Story, and Science Point to Christ
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NASA's released view of Mars' night sky (4K resolution)
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An interactive 3D physics textbook: open the book to a lesson on mains electricity and a sketched wall socket, plug and wiring pop up from the page as a 3D model, with lift-the-flap questions and buttons to step through how it works.
Per the creator, the book is being built with Claude Opus 5.5 and covers GCSE Physics electricity, with this clip showing its lesson on mains and the plug.
Why it matters: hard-to-picture topics like circuits and wiring click faster when students can turn them around in 3D, and AI-built books like this could make rich, hands-on lessons far easier to produce.
Credit: @techartist_
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Okay, so whatever you're going through right now will become irrelevant when you watch this until the end...♥️
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I am building an interactive 3D book with Opus 5.5 on GCSE Physics Electricity. Here’s a glimpse of its lesson on mains and the plug.
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Fuck you if you hate on Elon Musk.
Just imagine this was your son…
ALS took away Jake’s ability to use his wheelchair joystick and now, Neuralink lets him control his chair with his mind.
Hate on Elon all you want, he’s out here giving people their lives back.
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Según Tolkien, la forma más fácil de desperdiciar tu vida es mantenerte al día con la política y las noticias.
Él creía que la sociedad moderna estaba empezando a confundir la “información” con sabiduría y verdadero conocimiento.
Decía que eso podía hacerte sentir y parecer inteligente pero que no mejora en nada tu vida. Sin embargo la literatura, el arte y la filosofía quizá no te mantengan informado del día a día pero sí que te harán más inteligente y mucho más sabio.
Y yo no podría estar mas de acuerdo con él.
En un mundo donde nuestros gobernantes se preocupan mas de llenar sus bolsillos que de proteger las vidas de su pueblo, lo mas prudente que uno puede hacer es no darles ni un segundo de nuestro pensamiento.
Como siempre, Tolkien estaba avanzado a su tiempo.
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This attribution is unsupported. In a 1966 interview, Tolkien said he read newspapers daily and took “a strong interest in what is going on” in the world—contrary to the post’s claim.
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Finally! I would suggest a modification. There must be some way for Claude to distinguish a reading pass for punctuation versus a developmental edit or authorship.
But even just a machine tool leaving its fingerprint is helpful as that becomes the basis for the query.
This feels early stage and not adequately thought out. A Claude read for review of a manuscript or a Claude first pass for syntax and spelling is of quite a different category than "help me rewrite this". Maybe it is a distinction of single character deletes or changes versus word changes? Not quite sure why anyone would want the fingerprinting to extend to a spellcheck review. The larger issue is content creation, human versus machine, write and creation. Not use of a machine tool for productivity in normal use cases.
All the same, I applaud this move and support it. I do, however, think it requires significant refinement to have greater use. I would do further and support the industry coming together behind an AI fingerprinting standard more targeted towards actual content creation versus use of an editing tool. At the end of the day, this is hugely net positive for writers, artists and musicians. Not that AI is bad, but human culture has a texture that should be encouraged and never lost.
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Le preguntaron a Bukele en Argentina cómo sacaron a los jóvenes del modelo del narco: la casa grande, el coche caro el smartphone… cuando trabajar honesto tarda años. Su respuesta duele porque es verdad
"El gobierno llega tarde si espera reinsertar al que ya violó, ya mató y ya cortó cabezas. A un niño de 6 u 8 años sí se le puede cambiar la vida. Al que ya eligió el mal... el joven que vende tomates en el mercado, suda, carga, gana $5… y en la esquina el pandillero se los quita. ¿Qué incentivo gana? ¿Vender tomates o ser el que cobra? Por eso nunca se gana la guerra de incentivos si el criminal sigue en la calle.
Porque el Estado no puede pagarle triple salario mínimo para que deje el crimen. Eso no es gobierno, sino ingenuidad cara. Un organismo me dijo: «no puedes acabar el crimen de un golpe, son 70 mil empleos, esa plata llega a los hogares y se gasta legal». Lo que ellos insinuaban era que dejara vivir al cáncer para no lastimar la economía. Bukele les respondió con otra analogía: si tengo cáncer con metástasis y me ofrecen cirugía, quimio y quedar débil… pero vivo, me opero. No me quedo así nomás esperando que el tumor sea educado."
Le dijeron que el PIB podía caer hasta 10% por sacar esa economía sucia. No cayó. Subió. Porque el miedo también es un impuesto. Y ese sí lo pagábamos todos los días. Sacaron al pandillero de la ecuación y no sólo para castigarlo, sino para que el muchacho que todavía no entra en ese mundo vea otro menú. Ya no es: «me hago pandillero y gano». Ahora es: «me hago pandillero y pierdo mi libertad». Eso no es odio, es orden. Es proteger a la familia que sí trabaja, a la que manda la remesa, a la que nunca tuvo casa grande porque no cobraba renta de sangre. 30 años de discursos. 7 años de resultados. El resto es teoría para intelectuales.
Tal vez necesitamos un Bukele en España. Y en el mundo.
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Marc Andreessen revealed how Harvard Business School was built on a broken 1941 theory, and how it's now collapsing...
Andreessen co-founded Netscape in 1994 and a16z in 2009.
He has sat on Meta's board since 2008.
He has spent 30 years backing founders and watching managerial CEOs lose to them.
The pattern traces back to one book: James Burnham's The Machiavellians (1941).
Burnham argued every great company had been founder-run.
Henry Ford ran Ford. Bob Noyce ran Intel.
Today, Elon Musk runs Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink.
Then, he said, something broke.
Between the 1880s and the 1920s, a new philosophy replaced the founder. It was called managerialism.
The professional manager would now hold a portable skill, usable across any business.
The consequences were:
- Harvard Business School
- Stanford Business School
- Management as a universal skill
- The 1970s conglomerate
"That assumes the managers are going to do a good job," Andreessen says.
For 30 years, they haven't.
Managers can run something static, he says. Soup is soup. A bank is a bank. A car is a car.
But when the industry changes, the manager freezes.
Look at SpaceX.
"Imagine being a professionally trained manager, trained at a top management school, working for a rocket launch company, competing with SpaceX."
Then Elon's rockets started landing on their butt.
"Your management skills ... what good are they at that point?"
Andreessen's conclusion:
"You're much more likely to build something important in the 21st century if you start with the founder and train them on management."
Entire field of study revolving around the non-locality of consciousness will eventually be recognized as one of the most profound new paradigms for understanding reality.
Evidence that consciousness persists after death found in new study
dailymail.com/sciencetech/ar… via @DailyMail
