In my latest article, I propose a deeper take on the new "space race", now against China, to be the first country to create AGI. We should also ask - what is the nature of consciousness itself? What will our limits for AGI be? What makes us most human? databrett.medium.com/after-the-thaw…

We learn to love others from families capable of great love

Years ago, my husband gave me an ejection seat handle that hangs on the wall as a reminder that we’re never trapped by prior choices in our lives or careers—we can pivot, start over, or let go. We always have agency to reinvent ourselves, both as individuals and as a couple.

You spiritual Twitter feed is just your consciousness sans stimulation

What do you think goes on here?

In the mean time use Importal Disclaimer, I work there. We are using ai to simplify importing importal.com x.com/levie/status/1…

When you believe something and you use that belief to control your own behavior, it’s one of your values. If you use the same belief to control others behavior, it’s one of your vices.

Car headlights have gotten absurdly bright – roughly doubling in recent years – and it's dangerous for others on the road. I encouraged the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to look into setting better maximum brightness standards in their upcoming infrastructure

I am a real person who uses twitter most days. I read lots of tweets but don’t tweet much.

Texas generated more zero-carbon electricity from solar, wind, and nuclear than California consumed from all sources at every hour yesterday, at times by a factor of two. Cost and speed are key to energy abundance.

Congress today held a hearing on whether to force states to sell pork from crated pigs. This is a wildly unpopular policy that Congress is likely about to enact via the Farm Bill. Today's hearing showed how Big Ag lobbyists get DC politicians to do their bidding. A 🧵...

Retired Green Beret Lt. Col. Tony Aguilar tells a heartbreaking story of a Palestinian child he met who was killed by the IDF.

I'm ready to accept a definition of "agent" that I think is widely-enough agreed upon to be useful: An LLM agent runs tools in a loop to achieve a goal This is a big piece of personal character development for me! I've been dismissing the term as hopelessly ambiguous for years

Today is my 2 year anniversary of strength training / lifting weights. I added 15 lbs of muscle in those 2 years!

It is human nature to seek authority outside of ourselves

Did you know you can choose what to think about?

Confirmed: the G1 can do crazy jumps IRL - mjlab is incredible! Shoutouts to Kevin Zakka Bill Perkins (Guy) Louis Le Lay LycheeAI Logan Olson for the OSS code, robots, and opportunity to learn + my #DellProMax workstation for handling the simulation and training 🙏

American Society has lost its pattern

“In order to do populism effectively, politicians must not only focus on problems that the public cares about, they must also by-and-large accept the public’s framing of those problems.” A well written and interesting article.

What if all this AI capex IS going to have a huge ROI?