22. 3rd grade drop out. An autodidact. An individual. Working On Problems I Deem Meaningful.
Joined June 2023
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Hey Claude, give me a summary of @DavidDeutschOxf's Beginning of Infinity:
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"People aren't ready, this is gonna change everything"
You know what people weren't ready for? Fucking mammoths. Tigers eating them. Monkeys ripping their arms off. The black plague. The ice age. Smallpox. Vikings pulling up on the beach. Drinking water that gives you diarrhea until you die. Getting a scratch and losing your whole leg. The Mongols. The Spanish Inquisition.
One volcano can send us back to the dark ages and these safety guys are gonna be shocked. Oh the robots didn't kill us? It was a volcano? Imagine their disappointment as the hot ash rains down on them.
A solar flare is gonna explode your phone in your pocket your legs are gonna be covered in battery acid and your bank account will stop working. You're afraid of a computer program doing math?
"Things are moving too fast" homie you live on a rock that periodically deletes everything. You are one the most luckiest entities in a 100 light year radius living during a golden era. Cheer up.
My ancestors crossed an ocean in a wooden box because they ran out of fucking potatoes.
"The social disruption will be enormous!"
Nigga World War 2? World War 2? Hop in the people carrier we're landing on the beach.
Are these people out of their fucking minds? Do they not know what we've survived already?
A couple decades of air conditioning and people suddenly think oh this is the natural condition of mankind. No. We used to have eight kids because seven didn't make it. You're gonna be fine. Man the fuck up.
Accelerate.
“Morality has aesthetics.”
I always found that quote absolutely hilarious.
Ever since scientists mapped out a mosquito’s brain and put it on the internet it’s been crazy what people have been creating with it 😭😭
Ig mosquitoes don’t have rights 😭😭
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Why is no one talking about the biological data center that Singapore built and announced about a month ago…?
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@ToKTeacher
People are universal explainers, that one aspect is what sets them apart from all other beings and makes them superior.
If a person can’t create explanations because of brain damage or because he was born disabled, would that make him less of a person?
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It's funny how I keep coming back to X from time to time, post for a while and then vanish again...
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Anas Uddin retweeted
"Rich person" services that poor people can access now thanks to AI:
- Custom tutor
- Job training
- Legal advice
- Tax advice
- Financial planning
- Psychological counseling
- Concierge doctor
- Career coach
- Executive assistant
- Test prep
Oh and it's all vanishingly cheap.
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Read books. Read articles. Read research papers. Listen to music. Listen to podcasts. Listen to people who think differently from you. Dance to the songs you love. Go swimming. Go for a walk without carrying your phone. Go hiking. Go for coffee hopping. Buy magazines. Read old newspapers. Sit in a library. Visit a museum. Watch the sunset. Watch the sunrise. Stare at your walls. Stare at the ceiling. Stare at the stars from your terrace. Sit in a garden and observe people passing by. Watch the trees move with the wind. Listen to the birds. Listen to the rain. Sit in silence without feeling the need to fill every second with content. Write things down. Carry a notebook. Journal your thoughts. Sketch badly. Paint something. Learn an instrument. Grow a plant. Cook a meal from scratch. Call an old friend. Travel somewhere nearby. Get lost in a new neighborhood. Visit a bookstore and leave with a book you weren't planning to buy.
this is life all about.
With the introduction of Fable 5, writing code by hand has become quite redundant. It was able to code games in less than an hour that took people months to code by hand.
So if someone wants to get into coding or creating things with code, what's the best route for them?
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For speech is silver and silence is golden. Moreover, for silence can be misconstrued, but not misquoted.
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When I was 14, social media was my escape hatch from mediocrity.
I did not relate to anyone at school. Online, I found people on the other side of the world who thought the way I did.
That changed my life.
It is how I ended up working with one of Silicon Valley’s most respected investors and some of the smartest engineers in the world.
It is how I started a podcast and got into rooms school would never have opened for me.
The UK wants to close that door for every weird, ambitious, hyper online 14-year-old.
They say it is “for safety”.
But there is a much greater danger in being trapped inside schools, consuming state-mandated narratives, and waiting for permission from people whose entire worldview is obedience.
The internet lets kids escape the factory before the factory stamps them into shape.
It lets them find mentors, employers, collaborators, friends, customers, and ideas no school would ever give them.
It lets them discover that the classroom is not the world, and the adults around them are not the ceiling.
A social media ban for under-16s protects the enforcement regime, not the child.
Age verification is KYC with a child-safety sticker on it.
First they ask if you are old enough.
Then they ask who you are.
Then the anonymous internet is gone.
The excuse is children.
The prize is obedience.
Fight back, Britain.
We are banning social media access for under 16s.
These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life.
I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The UK Government's 'careful review' of the research found a small correlation between children's use of social media and wellbeing, but no evidence of a causal effect:
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No, you don't get it.
He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies.
To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined.
Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems".
$100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12
If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation.
But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.