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what would the cognitive difference between a human and an asi look like? like asking a dog to understand differential equations.

humans are a weak operating system

i think another extinction event would fix me

i've accumulated forty years along my path through spacetime.

a simulation could pause for a thousand external years without its inhabitants noticing the gap. it could also initialize a person with forty years of memories from years that never ran. nothing in your own memory could tell you whether yours did.

i want a mircoduck

misinformation often comes from misinterpretation, and misinterpretation from misunderstanding: not being able to reason through a field itself, nor through its connections to other fields, without the full scope of economics, physics, and science.

the media publishes what it doesn't understand, and passes off the confidence of a headline as the competence of the writer.

the current compute situation is ridiculous.

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we should rewrite php in rust

i think it's time to retire the internet.

ladies. gentlemen. agents... the oscar goes to @arikuschnir

holy fruit fly. we just dropped a real connectome into an ai world model and watched it casually navigate a harbor it thinks is real. that fly has no idea it's in a simulation. neither do we.

99% of all species that ever existed are extinct. good luck, everyone.

that was the 2026 version of the moon landing.

elon is the g.o.a.t

eric weinstein: 100% of the population has gone completely insane.

brilliant