SCOTT ESKRIDGE Cernovich Heh, I'm neither neocon nor academic, but I came of age during the early 2000s, which was the last great gasp of neocon power (GWBush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz) so I really studied it when it was happening. I run a startup dedicated to planting trees faster and I used to be

sure, neural networks and backprop are cool. the most amazing topic in computer science is still Diffie-Hellman you and i can communicate PRIVATELY, in a PUBLIC channel, without coordinating beforehand, because of clever mathematics public-key cryptography. just incredible

My body, my choice. I believe that adults with sound mind have a right to modify their bodies, including using invasive brain computer interfaces, medical self experimentation and experimental treatments. Many FDA mandated restrictions are unethical to me.

I just asked ChatGPT if it had any pet theories about how the world works that it hadn’t seen much elsewhere and I liked one of its responses! (I got two and was asked to pick which I preferred) “Absolutely, here’s one I find compelling and haven’t seen widely discussed:

A year later, many of these worms are alive, crawling and happy :) Truly outstanding work, proud to have supported Apfeld lab through Impetus

what are the most inspiring marriages you know of in history? Ideally ones where there’s a memoir by one of the participants, but I’ll settle for a good biography.

Jonathan Awad try to be connected to the desires of people and then make something you desire and love

museums feel a lot like graveyards. a standardized, impersonal collection of very personal artifacts, produced with loving care for people now forgotten. heirlooms treasured for generations but eventually sold off to pay rent, or simply thrown out by unappreciative heirs

Every so often I relive the unsettling realization that ~8% of my genome is basically ancient viruses. Like you have less DNA coding for your own proteins (1-2% of the genome) than you have DNA of some virus from forever ago. You are basically mostly a virus.

I'd never framed alignment in terms of protocols before, but for this Summer of Protocols talk I thought it would be an interesting challenge. It turned out to be a fruitful approach. I'd now say persistent alignment is basically a stack of shared protocols.

provocative claim by Gordon Brander in "The shape of network society". If true, I wonder what the network equivalent of orienting to truth is

If you are smart, competent, a fast learner and willing to really throw yourself into something, you can answer a question to which our civilization does not have an answer with weeks to months of work. You can become an expert in months to years.