The universe is quite literally a song

∅ Fauler Hoyt ∞ Persuasion and coertion Aren't that different Than Go and Chess

Living the dream, or hardly dreaming?

Don’t be surprised if China offers Terry Tao the chair of the mathematics department at Tsinghua University. And all the funding he wants. Because it is possible for the US to fumble the bag as the destination for global talent. And indeed it is fumbling that bag right now.

Continuing the journey of optimal LLM-assisted coding experience. In particular, I find that instead of narrowing in on a perfect one thing my usage is increasingly diversifying across a few workflows that I "stitch up" the pros/cons of: Personally the bread & butter (~75%?) of

Here is "AI Consciousness: A Centrist Manifesto". I've been working on this feverishly because the issue seems to me so urgent - and I'm worried extreme positions on both sides are becoming locked in, when the best way forward is in the centre. Please read it! (1/2)

🕹️ Turning drawings into XR worlds you can play in. I built a POC for Spectacles that turns imagination into reality. My niece drew a picture and with the help of Mirage 2, I brought it to life in an interactive environment.

This is actually insane

today we announced that galaxy is the first ever publicly traded company to tokenize its SEC-registered shares on a public blockchain these are real $GLXY shares -- not wrappers, not synthetics, not shares in a foreign SPV. Galaxy Class A Common Stock, onchain more here 👇

Prompt: Write a two paragraph short story that starts on a topic David foster Wallace would find fascinating but in the style of Scott Alexander, and ends discussing a topic Scott Alexander would find fascinating in the style of David foster Wallace. Smooth interpolation

The logarithmic scales of pleasure and pain also strongly suggest a prior where the variability in the intensity of experience in response to sensory and chemical stimulus is itself a long-tail. Due to enzyme genetics, for some people 100 micrograms of LSD is a museum dose,

you don't need a 2 hour workout. you don't need to read a whole book this week. you don't need to write a full chapter. go for a walk. read 10 pages. write one paragraph. "a little" beats "nothing" every single time because it keeps the habit alive

I no longer agree with this previous tweet of mine - since 2017, I have become a much more willing connoisseur of mountains. It's worth explaining why. x.com/VitalikButerin… First, the original context. That tweet was in a debate with Ian Grigg, who argued that blockchains