New post Everyone is sleeping on the *collective* advantages AIs will have, which have nothing to do with raw IQ - they can be copied, distilled, merged, scaled, and evolved in ways humans simply can't. I talk about how a firm of AGIs might work. 1. Copy

My kids were asking why old games don't use "real instruments" in their music, and then I explained that Super Mario Brothers, in its entirety, was 100 times smaller than a single mp3.

The animation process of Akira (1988). This makes me appreciate this masterpiece even more

My testosterone rose after watching this.

They are ants solving a geometric problem and it is great in color.

stage four. the sign bears no relation to any reality whatsoever, it is its own pure simulacrum

Why do we think supersonic flight will work at scale on Boom Supersonic Overture when it didn't on Concorde? Here's the business case for supersonic—and a never-before-seen piece of Overture's design. 🧵👇 Only 14 Concordes >1,000 Overtures planned

SOUND ON. You’re hearing the first howl of a dire wolf in over 10,000 years. Meet Romulus and Remus—the world’s first de-extinct animals, born on October 1, 2024. The dire wolf has been extinct for over 10,000 years. These two wolves were brought back from extinction using

We’ve never wanted to play a game so badly 😂

"they're selling debt packages made up of coachella ticket obligations & door dash loans?"

English is full of “lexical gaps,” words that are implied to exist but don’t, because we borrowed a bunch of words from Latin but not other, related words. Somebody made a chart to show it↓

This is insanely hardcore

1/4 ‘The Tartan Pimpernel’ (as promised) The Revered Doctor, Donald Caskie ‘A crofter’s son from Islay whose wartime heroics as a Church of Scotland minister helped thousands of Allied troops escape from France & saw him face a Gestapo death squad’

Whale oil kept America moving during the Industrial Revolution. These whaling maps mix science with spectacle. ow.ly/T1C130sMqgK

We’re in the last few months of easy discernment between real and AI footage. After that, we can rely only on our priors and evaluation of source through robust epistemological enquiry. Luckily humans are really good at that.

Want to thrive in tomorrow’s world? In this Forbes article I co-authored with Igor Tulchinsky, Founder of WorldQuant, we explain what the “AI Nation” means for your prosperity and security. forbes.com/sites/amirhusa…

📢 New article on our website: 𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗬 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘀: 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄’𝘀 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲 👉amplifyproject.eu/amplify-consor…