The importance of stupidity in scientific research

Create you own belief system, it’s ok to pull from multiple sources

In your lifetime, you will witness a company that projects free speech and intelligence from the heavens. And it is inevitable.

Rather big news

China’s fertility problems have robotic solutions.

A 10-20% improvement in iMessage autocorrect would save hundreds to thousands of lives

I’m in love with this sentence: “Discipline feels boring until you witness what it creates.”

The simulation runs until heat death

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s #1 holding is an $876 million position in a fuel cell company. Not Nvidia. Not Microsoft. Not any AI lab. Bloom Energy. A company that generates electricity on-site from natural gas. When we covered Leopold’s portfolio last year, it was worth ~$1

Repetitive negative thinking is associated with the accumulation of Alzheimer's dementia protein in the brain. Stay positive.

We are at war with entropy, and computation is our weapon

If you're thinking about healthcare spending in the US, one fact worth noting About 9% of healthcare spending goes to physician compensation Another 9% goes to nurses Yes, doctors and nurses get paid more in the US than they do in other countries and yes, a small proportion of

He's got a point

Fermented sources for nanoplastic binding in the gut (ranked by lactic acid bacteria density + diversity): Kefir > kimchi > raw sauerkraut > live-culture yogurt > miso > tempeh > natto > avoid pasteurized versions > consume before meals to prep gut > pair w/ high fiber ones >

Liftoff. The Artemis II mission launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon. Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.

The eclipse from Orion. On April 6, external cameras attached to the Orion spacecraft's solar array wings captured the Moon backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse.

Additional tiers include 2 x $75,000/year, 10 x $75,000/year, 1,000 x $350,000/year, etc.

"Is Bitcoin actually competing to be the future world reserve currency?" Yes. When you need money that nobody can debase, that is free to hold and receive, that is cheap to transfer, that is censorship-resistant, and that even enemies can settle in... there is no second best.

MYTHOS

The state mandating what AI can and can't say is a nightmare scenario that will lead to subversion and tyranny. Cultural prescriptions should be separate from the state, private companies should be able to compete when it comes to offering models with differing cultural priors.