i wish i could give everyone a positive disposition and ample amounts of high-quality sleep

Here are my favorite short science fiction stories and omg they're literally so short why haven't you read them already?! seriously just Google them

1) 'They're Made out of Meat' by Terry Bison
2) 'The Last Question' by Isaac Asimov
3) 'I Sexually Identify as an Attack…

The most impactful sci-fi stories I've ever read and you should read too:

1) Starmaker and Last and First Men by Olaf Stapleton

Perhaps the most epic stories of all time told by the father of the science fiction genre himself.

Starmaker traces the history and meaning of…

reposting because people are asking me why I read science fiction today

My fav NASA paper is about self-replicating robot space economies that lead to 100,000x the industrial output of Earth within a century. A post-scarcity civilization is possible and even conservative given Starship & self-replicating synthetic biology to aid industrial processes

people talk about being down to earth.. you know.. that place with atom bombs sitting on top of a fabric of accelerating space.. that everyday kinda rock hurtling through the void with no thought or mind but that with enough water and light spontaneously becomes alive and dreams

we've got 400 nuclear powerplants on earth and 14,000 nuclear bombs. 35 nuclear weapons for every nuclear powerplant? feels like we messed up somewhere

I'd love to fund the research & creation of an open-source text diffusion model in the 7b class (open to hybrid diffusion/AR). Anyone interested in working on this? Open to grants, part-time or full-time work (DMs open if you prefer)

i rly want a giant igloo in Antarctica, like a mile in diameter, with a massive city inside, pls call it the GIGALOO, kthxbai

the Internet was built for transmitting information, but it also transmits emotions. we were not prepared for this.

'I don't want a book if I can't talk to it' feels like a quote from the relatively near future

When Vernor Vinge first outlined the concept of 'the singularity' in his 90s NASA paper, he proposed four 'kinds of singularities', as each makes progress it pushes the others forward and eventually all of them fall like dominos

we're still in the pre-newtonian era of ai. the age of alchemy.

somewhere out there, your quirks are in dire need

just lived for a year without a microwave and then went straight to a modern Panasonic 'cyclonic inverter' system. reheating chicken wings never felt so magical. it feels like my fridge is a 'magic cold box' and my microwave is a 'magic hot box'

we should be expecting a billion humanoid robots on earth in the 2040s and a hundred billion (mostly alien) robots throughout the solar system in the 2060s

anyone ever just wana make a pyramid?

we can only create what we first imagine

Roko AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ I agree, the mapping of language to images was the key surprise. it seems language itself is a compression structure we've built with the shared computation of billions of people to think about and represent the world and that computers can basically take advantage of that

AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ Roko it was pretty clear within the inner research circles of ai (in 2021) that images were a solvable modality within the next few years. most said 'who cares, that's not agi' but to me there was an opportunity to explore the essence of beauty and to amplify our ability to imagine…