Alok Tripathy @alokrant

The notion that AGI would have infinite returns has been used to justify investment far above expected returns (by 10x-100x) for technology that is neither AGI nor on the path to AGI

Crawling isn't innate (unlike walking). Every baby must *invent* crawling, from scratch, using extremely little data, and no reference to imitate. Which is why different babies end up with different ways of crawling. Sometimes people tell me, "you say AI isn't intelligent until it can invent, but most humans can't invent anything either!" -- in reality, we are all constantly inventing. Even babies are inventors. You couldn't navigate a single day in your life if you weren't capable of invention.

Sara Hooker @sarahookr

9 months ago

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The India-China relationship is getting closer at least in optics faster than anyone imagined. The Chinese ambassador saying "China stands firmly with India" re the tariffs was unthinkable even 6 months ago. Trade and bilateral relations have been intricately intertwined for thousands of years and Trump seems to have meddled with the primordial forces of nature itself. Frankly, India & China are just natural allies that have had recent bad history. We are culturally similar, Chinese movies are popular in India, Indian movies like PK & Dangal were huge hits in China, we have the same sense of filial piety, similar goofy sense of humor & comedic timing, ancient history of a lot of mingling, etc. When push comes to shove, this relationship is the natural, comfortable one, like returning to an old friend who we had a fallout with but always wished we didn't. It also helps that that friend then went on to become really rich and famous and has robot pets 😂. This will be a very interesting decade in how the power balance shifts more to the east.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. — G. K. Chesterton 📍Rome 📹 Pablo Castañeda

This is the socialist worldview in a nutshell. Socialists believe the following: 1. All progress is social. This means that all human problems are solved by rearranging collective human behavior. 2. How to rearrange human behavior to solve problems is already known. 3. Problems therefore exist because there are people who don't want to behave in this known fashion. 4. Therefore, problems exist because certain people are in the way of progress. Socialist politicians may be grifters who believe in nothing, but their (living) voters, the socialist true believers, hate you, and this is why. They believe you, your existence, your non-compliance with their plans, is all that stands between humanity and paradise. This is why they will always murder you if they have power. This is why unchecked socialism always leads to the censor, the secret policeman tapping your phone, the neighbors dragged away in the night, the torture chamber, the gulag, the mass grave. Because if you think that nothing stands between you and paradise but stubborn people, then you think you can murder your way to paradise. When a socialist demands socialism, you either comply or you do not. If you do not comply, he wants to murder you. If you do not comply, then the socialist policy he enacts not only fails to bring about paradise, it makes things worse, so he demands a further socialist policy. If you do not comply, he wants to murder you. If you repeatedly comply, then eventually things get very bad indeed, and the socialist casts about for someone to blame. Surely there must be some non-compliant person around here somewhere. Some counter-revolutionary. He must be found and murdered, and then paradise will be attained. This isn't about religion. "Religion" is merely the label they paste on your non-compliance. If you were an atheist, they'd just use another label. That giant finger in the drawing isn't your beliefs. It's you. They think you are evil. Not wrong, evil. And they want to kill you. Not all of them think they do, of course. There's a group called "democratic socialists", who append the word "democratic" to the front, to mean "I don't want to kill you, I only want to use the political process to force you to comply." But when they do, your society enters the same downward spiral described above. So they eventually decide to kill you. They will always, eventually, reach the point where they decide to kill someone. Because they always think their utopian plans will work if they kill just one more person, and their utopian plans will never actually work no matter how many people they kill. What actually works isn't socialism, it's technology. Here's how: 1. All progress is technological. This means that all human problems are solved by figuring out a better understanding of the universe, and creating a piece of technology based on that understanding. 2. Creating new science and technology is hard, and requires a lot time, money, and effort. 3. Problems therefore exist because not enough time, money, and effort has yet been invested to produce the necessary technological breakthrough. 4. Therefore, there is absolutely, positively, 100% no way to solve all human problems right now by acting differently. But we can optimize society for technological progress. In other words, the "star trek future" isn't waiting for us to become atheists, because atheism doesn't produce technology faster or better than any religion that isn't anti-technology. That "star trek future" is instead waiting on us to invent warp drives, teleporters, and matter nanoassemblers. And every single piece of progress that humanity has achieved came not from social activism, but from technological advancement. The 40 hour work week was merely demanded by unions. It was actually enabled by industrial technology. Democracy, republicanism, and other forms of populist government were merely demanded by revolutions and philosophies. They were enabled by the rifled firearm. And so on. For every positive change in society and civilization, there is one or more critical pieces of technology that allow it to happen. Once that technology exists, the change is trivial. When it does not exist, forcing that change is disastrous, not positive. A 40 hour work week would exterminate a civilization of bronze age agriculturalists. Democracy would destroy a medieval kingdom. Progress is technological progress. This is why socialism must be stopped. Because socialism interferes with technological progress, which is the real driving force behind progress of any kind. You cannot murder your way to utopia.

Sara Hooker @sarahookr

9 months ago

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Take full ownership of all outcomes in your life, regardless of external factors.

Just because an opinion is wrong doesn’t mean it should be censored. Just because a behavior is harmful doesn’t mean it should be prohibited. Just because something is beneficial doesn’t mean it should be required.

Good riddance!

20: “I sleep on a futon.” 25: “These are Egyptian cotton.” 30: “I spent $100 on a pillow.” 35: “Listen, I need a specialty neck pillow, a body pillow, a weighted blanket, a mouth guard, a fan, a noise machine, ear plugs, and 20mg of melatonin to get 3 hours of sleep.”

Given that the pandemic has rendered traditional exam-taking unfeasible, the open-book exam culture can be providential. The genius of Indians is corrupted by rote learning; we need more of us to think critically, be resourceful and think on the feet.

On things that get cheaper and things that get more expensive... Blue: Free market forces Red: Subject to government regulatory intervention Overall Inflation is 54.6% -> i.e. CPI is a BS measure of inflation, and it's what economists use to determine monetary policy.

@Frances_Coppola @jbmartinez301 @Excellion I think the longer they remain tight-lipped, the bigger will be the fallout.

@Frances_Coppola @jbmartinez301 I think #Bitcoin maximalists like @Excellion are smart enough to understand the systemic risk #Tether poses to crypto markets yet are disingenuous about it coz they're afraid, as BTC influencers, calling it the biggest scam will wipe out ~90% of net worth.

The most counterintuitive part of building social networks is that virtually every product decision should be to the benefit of the network, *not* the user. This is fundamentally at odds with human-centered design. For many founders, this means unlearning a lot of things.

When I was 18, I lost my entire month's income in 10 minutes of gambling. It was totally worth it. <story>

@Frances_Coppola @ToneVays BCB

this is a devastating discovery

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@apurvahendi Twitter Spaces is going to eat Clubhouse's lunch!