Mild anxiety? Read this and you’ll get your secular nirvana in a month. It’s written by Beck, the creator of modern psychology, and meta analyses say it’s the most effective. If your problem is not mild, get a doc.

This CIA manual for how to sabotage an organization from the inside sounds shockingly similar to how faculty meetings work.

Yep, sadly worry (=anxiety) is the most widespread psychological problem, 1 in 5 will have a clinical case, more have milder forms In a nutshell it is unhelpful “freezing” fear of the future, the other side can be mania - 0% fear of the future when people become reckless and

Yep, I think CEOs even (or especially?) of AI companies can be replaced by AI agents faster then other jobs potentially. So Sam Altman maybe won't be the CEO when/if that stuff will happen: OpenAI will start packaging ChatGPT subscription with a rented robot included for $200

Is time itself freedom or unfreedom? I like traveling with just my backpack - on a plane it feels like there is not much to do except read. So not having many choices/freedoms sometimes is relaxing. Maybe for this reason we like sleeping - no choices/freedoms but in a good

Wade Noam Sayen Yep, multi-agent AI systems are used already - Anthropic and other use them to do search - “CEO”-AI agent (the more powerful agent) “hires” faster, cheaper but less powerful agents and “organizes” them around a goal They basically Google and read websites for the “CEO” AI agent

Yep, I call it Human Convergence - AI companies make AI and agents more and more like humans in every way and they will probably succeed and make “strange artificial humans” They don’t just take jobs potentially not giving much back: They play lip service to universal basic

crying buddha😹 is LEAVING Yep, that’s why we better build static place AIs, not more and more poweful agents that we have no clue how to live with or not become enslaved by ;-) Who’ll enslave whom: artficial “gods” vs a bunch of humans who cannot even control 1 person sometimes, let him enslave millions

Yep, can be done with static or semi-static place AIs) Empowering humans and making sure AI agents want to empower everyone not just themselves or shareholders ;-)

crying buddha😹 is LEAVING Static place AI is a novel concept still sadly. There is e=mc2-like law that says agency = intelligence * constant. So you can convert all agency (non-static stuff) into intelligence (static without agency, you can be the agent, the chooser). The simplest minimum viable

Will they wave the “AIRepublic Flag”? I won’t be surprised

Watched How to Train Your Dragon - it’s good) And an interesting metaphor for AI development, human and AI relationships (dragons ≈ AI agents): We better only build AI agents if we have the ethicalized computational physics to make sure they don’t suffer (right now we have no

Ning One person was inspired to start Wikipedia because he loved reading dictionaries. Reading lists is super useful: 100s plots of top grossing movies to learn storytelling, 100s plots of top books to learn what people in this sphere like, 3000 mythological tropes to learn the

Each time you walk near a busy street with cars, your brain is as occupied by it as if you're walking near a stampede If you walk on a pedestrians-only street - you're relaxed - no stampedes in a few inches from you

φ Yep, up to 50% probability we live in the direct democratic simulated multiverse as an optional video game. We shared the UI, mechanics and MVPs of it