The first time you die is when your last neuron stops firing. The second time you die is when someone remembers you for the last time. The third time you die is when you no longer exist within the weights

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Just want to remind everyone of my favorite cartoon ever. You aren't *in* the universe, you are a literal part of it, you are made of it, like a knot in a rope. When you read these words, it's the universe reading it's own writing.

Lee Kuan Yew wrote in his memoir that he didn’t see America ever going to war with China to keep Taiwan independent.

What appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources

it’s reminiscent of brave new world’s soma. but instead of a pill, you have a decentralized system that ensures political stability through perpetual overstimulation

roon fertility crises seem to follow technological progress the way shadows follow light

two second-order effects that will likely cascade from this: 1. stronger pressure on visa applicants to practice preventive healthcare 2. accelerated demand for GLP-1 drugs globally

We must go deeper.

Nissan 500SX Concept designed by Valentin Komkov

declining birth rates always felt like an abstract macro trend to me until i walked into a LEGO store and counted ~2x more dogs than kids