Sentience is an exquisite consequence of the laws of physics, and the embodied mind of organisms shaped by millions of years of evolution is the remarkable product of a billions upon billions of failed experiments and dead ends and strange loops. It is a mark of profound hubris

It sickens me to hear Spanish spoken on the streets of Los Angeles, San Diego, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Santa Ana, San Jose, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, El Cerrito, La Mirada, San Luis Obispo

We are entering the personality era. The real AI hedge is to become more human. Social skills, communication, presence, intuition, discernment, human psychology will all become extremely high leverage as execution and thought are outsourced to the robot overlords. STAY HUMAN.

Updated Tesla Model S & X!

People say ketamine or ayahuasca is oneshotting tech bros, but IMO it's actually Adderall/stimulant abuse. At high doses it makes you manic and vastly overconfident. You see it everywhere.

There are two polarities of selfhood, the limited ego anxiously identified with the perishing body and the timeless self, identified with the immortal Spirit. The purpose of life is to find one's spiritual self and unite with the divine infinite source of existence. The

One of the reasons why it's bad to have someone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder as your leader is that they are literally incapable of (1) admitting they don't know something, and (2) interpreting object-level feedback/constructive criticism as anything other than direct

AI is flooding the internet with content *only* AI could make (bigfoot vlogs, cutting glass fruit)... Here’s what happens next. When supply of “perfect” content goes to infinity, demand will shift to the opposite (Sidenote: I use "perfect" not as a quality statement, but more

My observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence & calling for calm while MAGA are escalating rhetoric & lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

Elon Musk has been profoundly unhelpful this weekend.

It seems Bryan Johnson is finally looking in the right place for the Elixir of Life. As the Taoists discovered, the only way not to die is to realize that death was an illusion all along. As a Ming-dynasty alchemical text reportedly says: “If you seek the elixir to escape

Eventually you develop an allergy against exhausting your life force with things you do not care about. Your body rejects it without explanation. Even the thought of it will make you feel sick. You will self sabotage. Most never get there. They live with a quiet desperation.

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Jesse Wells remains the fucking truth Part 3 #fuckice

To be clear about what this depicts: An immigration officer threw a woman onto the ground. Alex Pretti, a registered nurse on scene as a legal observer, is filming and goes to help the woman up. He is then pepper sprayed and thrown to the ground for no discernible reason. Many

Real Luxuries in Life 1. Living 10 minutes from work 2. Living 5 minutes from the gym 3. Having quiet neighbors 4. Having money left at the end of the month and investing it 5. Peace at home 6. Drinking coffee without rushing 7. Sleeping with a clear conscience 8. Laughing with

This is the best depiction of the creative process and its struggles I’ve seen. Sometimes you have to give yourself time to ”go dreamy.”

nvk 🌞 We will take back the em dash.

I’m hearing about people actively switching to Claude because of Anthropic’s stance against mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. I hope the news picks up and companies face massive pressure not to cross those lines.

Marc Andreesson is not a man of words. He is confusing rumination with introspection. Rumination is not productive. Lack of precision with words = lack of precision with thinking.