Introducing Project Sid: the first simulations of 1000+ truly autonomous agents collaborating in a virtual world, w/ emergent economy, culture, religion, and government Humans are the only species to land the moon, because we can cooperate at a vast scale Can AI do the same?

Chat GPT is a genius work of cultural criticism. It throws in our faces: why do we have so many jobs and school assignments that *can* be done by a non-thinking probability machine? Why do our students (even the ones paying a jillion dollars!) *want* to skip their lessons?

The world creates moments when philosophy matters. 250 years ago, America's founders turned philosophy into law. Today, our revolutionary AI moment demands translating philosophy into code, to promote human flourishing. The Cosmos Institute launches to tackle this challenge:

Garrison Lovely You can read some of my previous writing about this case at astralcodexten.com/p/model-city-m…… , but my impression is you're uncritically buying the Honduran socialists' propaganda version of this conflict. A more pro-Prospera/balanced version: investment courts are a useful vehicle to

🚨Amnesia Generation. The Internet will lose over 500,000 books. The Internet Archive has been ordered to delete them. The Internet Archive is appealing and essential for libraries to lend, preserve ensure access to out-of-print books. Sign a protest: change.org/p/let-readers-…

I'm speaking at @EFdevcon with Justin Banon - @BosonProtocol @FermionProtocol See you in Bangkok, November 12-15 devcon.org/en/sea/schedul…

Talks of Hydro are one of the hot topics in the Cosmos - The Interchain ⚛️ space. 🤓 But what exactly is Hydro, and what's all this excitement about? We've prepared a brief rundown for you 👇 🧵

I can watch cats drifting all day 😂

The productivity revolution is incoming. Update your priors people!

Yuval Noah Harari says in 10 years the world will be run by millions of AI bureaucrats who will make decisions that we can't understand about jobs, finance and government, leading to power shifting from humanity to alien intelligences

How weird will AI culture get? - marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

Higher Ed Musings 8. open.substack.com/pub/hollisrobb…

A scientist cured her own breast cancer. She then advances scientific knowledge by sharing her story. Medical researchers are worried about the "ethics" of doing this. I'd use the word "evil" to describe these people, but they seem too contemptible to warrant it.

no good skipping stones on Mars.

Issue 16 of Works in Progress worksinprogress.co/issue-16/

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Telegram founder's arrest is radical — if it's a crime to build privacy tools, there will be no privacy via Crikey crikey.com.au/2024/08/29/tel…

David Schmidtz is I think perhaps the best writer on the moral case for Humean liberalism I’ve ever read. academic.oup.com/book/45805

What that planet needs is some atmosphere and some life. We have some here we could send to get things started