Problems are solved in the real world after they enter reality, not in an imaginary vacuum. You plan and plan but no plan survives contact with reality. After you release your software or your rocket blows up or your car crashes, you learn and adjust. There is no other way.…

Spot on. Listen to your instincts on fairness rather than reason, and you’ll be doomed to mediocrity.

Trust your instincts for personal safety for defense against other living things, trust your gut for personal judgements but keep envy the hell away from policy.

This is the only way EU citizens will have access to late-stage AI computational capacity. Lease time on an orbital datacenter through a point-to-point link, and hope the enforcement task force doesn't discover you and break down your door.

Do these bacteria affect the risk of gum disease?

Gum disease is more insidious than cavities since it destroys the jawbone seating of the teeth, which cannot be fixed after the damage is done. Can develop without symptoms.

Caries and gum disease come from competing bacteria.

Same communities talking about radical inclusivity and openness all day are those that ban the ones that have slightly different opinions about incorporating AI into modern society.

Really shows you how full of sh*t this whole TPOT neo-hippie stuff is.

Today, we're announcing Alliance for the Future Alliance for the Future — our ED is the indefatigable Brian Chau, and the board consists of me, Jon Askonas ⏩🚀🏛️, and the legendary Beff Jezos — e/acc ⏩.

For too long, the AI discussion has been dominated by crazy people along with companies that want…

Most people who quote the simulation hypothesis don't understand they're a hair's breadth away from spirituality & religion.

I'm fine with humans holding both of those, but don't delude yourself if you're a scientist.

If you could progress at *proving* the hypothesis, though...

If the human population grows enough and property rights is still a thing after ASI, owning a nice property on Earth would be a luxury good.

Too early to tell how nature conservation plays into this, but land usage policies similar to today’s could conceivably continue forever.

e/acc isn’t something I identify with much in public, but if you ask me to choose between a doomer boot on the neck of civilization and handwringing about shrimp qualia versus freedom, immortality, and the stars, I guess I’m with e/acc, tongue in cheek or no.

This has been done with people occasionally, who have donated their body to science. Somewhat famously, for a volume rendering dataset, with a death row convict in 1993.

xr.engin.umich.edu/category/vis/p…

Many fundamental concepts of economics should almost be considered laws of nature.

Not in the sense of e.g. gravity or friction, that are universal. But economics and game theory is fundamental for entities that have goals. Animals, humans and in the future, AI.

What did Ilya see? Wrong question.

The OpenAI board saw that Sam Altman was on track to multiply the fundamental input for advanced AI, and remove the single, vulnerable bottleneck of TSMC.

This strategy would torpedo the most likely AI doomer Hail Mary, and they tried to fire him.

Double world GDP forever, for the low, low cost of 7% of world GDP. And again. And again. And again. And again.

Seems that AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ blocked me for saying that AI safety cultists are almost compelled by the internal logic of their position to resort to violence; I was replying to a post calling Beff Jezos — e/acc ⏩ a 'padded room-level paranoid' for saying that as well.

Bluntly: the cult…

Antivax is a only special case of a general phenomenon, significantly responsible for the decline of parts of the West.

Degrowth, pacifism and anti-democracy are other examples.

Without first-hand experience of horror, it's easy to dismiss the solutions that keep it at bay.

One more; you can say «thinking machines will soon exist, arguably they already do», and well-informed people won’t look at you like you’re a lunatic.

We are tired of high-nosed literary novels by privileged and overeducated academics with clinical depression, who tell us that everything is bad, and society is a Skinner box.

Stop giving yourselves airs. It is not a great act of intellectual prowess to point out the gap…

The timeline split of AI vs Robot Hardware has changed

the last 90 days i’ve witnessed industry leading AI in our lab running on humanoid hardware, and frankly it’s blown me away

i’m watching robots performing complex tasks entirely with neural nets. AI trained tasks that i…

This underscores a point about the world; economic systems don't succeed because they're fair or morally better. They win on efficiency, and thankfully there's a correlation with living well.

But we must get to post-scarcity to save the less-fortunate from drudgery.

Still very curious if Elon giving the middle finger to advertisers will actually lead Twitter to provide less biased news, now & long-term. With the state of traditional media, this would be a great boon.