Eric Weinstein It’s what this universe machine is for, Eric. We have until the next scheduled catastrophic cosmic event to leverage our dysfunction as driver of innovation to evolve an out. And all the pain endured along the way teaches us compassion, love, & gratitude. Don’t worry, Man. This

Doctor Who | The Doctor's Zygon War Speech Extract youtu.be/uCYobBjA1kk?si…

"The drones have synchronized hyperactivity periods, in which they are the fastest individuals in the colony." exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-beh…

If I could sum up the impact of 4 startups in 4 quarters in a single idea, it’d be the Death Ground strategy, by Robert Greene. “You are your own worst enemy. You waste precious time dreaming about the future instead of engaging in the moment. Since nothing seems urgent to you,

How to know you’ve truly angered a British person: 1. They beg for your pardon 2. They write you a strongly worded letter/email 3. They mutter “charming” 4. They say “you’re welcome” - which you can only just hear because they’ve waited for you to walk away a bit 5. They tut

Spatial vs Temporal Externalities, by Maxwell Tabarrok open.substack.com/pub/maximumpro…?

i am not against any human at all. i am against butthead behavior of humans who are operating under a delusion. In my opinion, most of these delusions result from the idea that humans in the past few thousands of years (the recent Kali Yuga & the last years of the descending

Are Yohei’s BabyAGI and other paired loop LLM experiments like Toran Bruce Richards Auto-GPT a precursor to truly agentic “conscious” AI? Julian Jaynes might think so. In 1976, Jaynes wrote a book called “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind".

tick, tick...Boom! | "Come to Your Senses" by Alexandra Shipp and Vaness... youtu.be/f6l6JA6QcKY?si… via YouTube

Reminding myself of lots of wonderful things that happened in 2023. In 2024, let’s try to take our world back from the organized psychopaths. It’s a beautiful place stuffed with beauty, music, adventure, family, friends & science. Wonderful to be here with so many good souls.🙏

Enjoying my Christmas read, signed in Yorkshire and generously transported all the way to Salt Lake City by a friend of my mom’s. Cheers, ⁦@revkatebottley⁩ and a Happy New Year to you!

‘Caldoria Heights’ by Möbius Trail is on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/LcjRt

The British Post Office Scandal audioboom.com/posts/8043922-… via Audioboom

Terence McKenna On Carl Jung, Hermeticism And The Fall of Empires youtu.be/y3yShHanIIE?si…

All this time everyone was so concerned about the advent of a paperclip maximiser, they neglected to prepare for the coming of the dreaded “strncpy” maximiser. Our Terrible Future And Open Source | Prime Reacts youtu.be/e2HzKY5imTE?

Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser recently gave a talk at GDC all about the creation of Playdate, and GDC has just made it available for free! It's got a lot of never-before-heard stories. It's also, in a way, about more than Playdate… We really hope you enjoy it. gdcvault.com/play/1034707/T…

7 signs your daughter may be an LLM: 1. Does she have trouble multiplying numbers beyond 2-3 digits if she's not allowed to write out the steps?

Loopy: New Audio-to-Video Lipsyncing Model Looks Insane It generates lifelike facial expressions and movements from audio alone. It captures subtle details like sighs, expressive eyebrows, and natural head gestures, making your videos incredibly realistic. Sample videos 1/5

Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.