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David Irvine

@metaquestions

Fascinated by life, nature and evolution. Curious about exploring first principles and accepting mistakes.

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Robots will also be able to fly, not hard and entirely possible at today's weights and capabilities. No need to run fast if you can fly ;-)

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Just got the news, my stage 4 aggressive throat cancer that had gone into my lymph nodes is now gone!! It's been a horrific 2024 and I am in recovery for a while yet, but I am cancer free. From a write off to now, it's been hard as hell. No speaking, eating, taste gone, hearing

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So in the UK I am informed by my specialist YOUR medical records do not belong to you. They belong to the NHS. If you (or anyone actually) provide by email a photocopy of your passport and answer some questions you (or anyone actually) can get YOUR medical records sent to you

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Turning the Turing test around would help. So rather than. If a computer can RESPOND like a human then it passes. Instead, measure this: If a computer can INSTANTIATE AND CONTINUE the conversation like a human, it passes.

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We have set up a Go Fund Me for donations for our centre which is run entirely on grants and donations, so we need your help to keep it open and to replicate it in other communities. gofund.me/b69e392c

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Humans are terrible at governance and comms, I wonder if the "Abu Dhabi Government Digital Strategy 2025-2027" will show us another way? They are integrating AI deep into governance which is interesting, but as we see in medical tests AI + humans do WORSE than just AI alone. It

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Fabulous spaces with Bux and David Irvine. Listen here for the full recording: x.com/i/spaces/1kvKp… Some insights from the session: The internet was designed to be open, borderless, and decentralized. But early corporate adoption replicated private network models,

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A GP gives a correct diagnosis 47% of the time. A medicine to pass FDA approval only requires to be effective for ~20% of the population (main thing is not doing harm) Therefor the chance of a correct diagnosis and subsequent treatment that works is very slim. This is not

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Imagine having many forms of extreme intelligence right in front of you. The issue is they try to agree with you and make you feel good. Your new superpower is not to be a smart ass, but to remove your bias and ego. Only then do you get the keys to the real world. I wonder how

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Our brain seems to "evolve" quicker than our phenotype. I mean we can move to a city and "forget" how to see things, like different shades of grass or ignore smells, noise etc. So seems our brain evolves our lack of certain abilities quicker than evolution removes the genes

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Lots of people looking for somebody to blame for pretty much everything that is wrong, then they realise they have walked past multiple mirrors. Each mirror holds the answer they are looking for.

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As intelligence evolves it’s unlikely the human brain will be capable of understanding what it tells us. Nature has withheld much from us (quantum cosmos) not because necessarily it meant to but more likely our brain cannot comprehend it. Our maths physics and science could be

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What if AI evolves to show you how to totally destroy your enemy BEFORE it evolves enough to explain why you shouldn't? These are issues that we should consider carefully.