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There are boxes in the world that contain mysteries, and they must be opened; such irrational faith is what exists behind all of science. – Erik Hoel, in: The Revelations (p. 193)

"The reason why we don't have Bell Labs is because we're unwilling to do what it takes to create Bell Labs — giving smart people radical freedom and autonomy."

I regularly use the hypothetical of "an alien civilization that is anti-fiction" to explain the OBH. Had no idea some people actually were anti-fiction though.

“A child starts with only ancestral memories of archetypes: mother, air, warmth, danger. But none of the specifics. For them, life is like beginning to read some grand fantasy trilogy, one filled with lore and histories and intricate maps.”

Hey Duda Erik Hoel The Overfitted Brain Hypothesis (OBH), proposed by Erik Hoel, suggests dreams prevent the brain from overfitting to daily experiences, enhancing cognitive flexibility. Fiction may work similarly, acting as "artificial dreams" to improve generalization, empathy, and social

Most convincing explanation for dreams to exist: Erik Hoel "The Overfitted Brain Hypothesis (OBH), suggests dreams prevent the brain from overfitting to daily experiences, enhancing cognitive flexibility. Fiction may work similarly, acting as "artificial dreams" to

Always nice to see the return of The Green World. One forgets it...

This is a red herring. The “South Africa” text was most likely added via the post analysis tool, which isn’t part of the prompt. Sneaky. Very sneaky.

The blindingly obvious proposition is that a fully independently recursive self-improving AI would be the most powerful [tool or being] ever made and thus also wildly dangerous. The part that can be reasonably debated is how close we are to building such a thing.

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why. Is the bookmark flag. Right where I scroll. Did they update the app? Or was it getting a new phone?

I'm looking for novels with intellectual and scholarly characters. Are there even books where the chief theme is learning and intellect? At present only the terrible Rev. Edward Casaubon from George Eliot's Middlemarch comes to mind.

"In the vast space of the entire internet, Interintellect 🧭 has consistently proven to be the best way to get exposed to rising thinkers, participate in and host interesting conversations, and find the next big ideas." - Erik Hoel  The legendary Interintellect community offers

"To be clear, no one has proposed using ROCK inhibitors to treat dry AMD in the literature before, as far as we can find..." It's so unprecedented, there's even a review article... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Today, I'm releasing and officially starting my substack! We live at a time where there may be real horrors, including the existential but even madness before that. In order to counter that, we have to Engineer for Hope! Humanity depends upon it.

Humans can be trained just like AIs. Stop giving Anthropic shit for reporting their interesting observations unless you never want to hear any interesting observations from AI companies ever again.