Magnus Polaris (@myparrhesia) 's Twitter Profile
Magnus Polaris

@myparrhesia

Ren-AI-ssance Man, Ironic Prophet & slayer of Moloch at The Parrhesia Diaries.

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Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) 's Twitter Profile Photo

sometimes when you have 2 beliefs that seem contradictory, it’s not that one belief is correct and one is wrong, but rather they’re each context-dependent, and you haven’t quite precisely figured out what the respective contexts are

Physics In History (@physinhistory) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.” -- Hubert Reeves (1932 - 2023) He would have turned 92 today. He passed away last year in Paris.

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.”

-- Hubert Reeves (1932 - 2023)
He would have turned 92 today. He passed away last year in Paris.
Will Stancil (@whstancil) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The basic mechanism whereby social media is breaking society is the way that massive online consensus enables us to substitute things that FEEL true in place of things that ARE true - e.g., “Nobody can afford groceries” in place of the observable fact that grocery prices are flat

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@peterhotez) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My view: Lab leak, gain of function nonsense was pushed by a coordinated group of conspiracists. There was never a single scientific paper to support it, vs dozen+ excellent papers in our best scientific journals on zoonotic spillover. At best misguided, at worst fraud or hoax .

Liv Boeree (@liv_boeree) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It’s ABSURD that Shell has a higher “ESG” score than Tesla. How did this happen? Because of gameable bureaucracy. A classic example of Goodhart’s Law. Here’s why 👇

Kate Levchuk 🇺🇦🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@kategoestech) 's Twitter Profile Photo

All these healthy males, living in absolute safety, complaining about the start of WWIII if the nation, living under daily missile attacks doesn't simply die for their convenience, is the most disgusting low sight I have ever seen Fuck you, Joe Rogan

All these healthy males, living in absolute safety, complaining about the start of WWIII if the nation, living under daily missile attacks doesn't simply die for their convenience, is the most disgusting low sight I have ever seen

Fuck you, <a href="/joerogan/">Joe Rogan</a>
Hanzi Freinacht (@hfreinacht) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Every metameme is linked to a revolution of info tech: Archaic - spoken language Animist - art depiction Faustian - writing Postfaustian - literature (scrolls, books) Modern - printing press Postmodern - photo and video Metamodern - internet Last one superpowered w Web 3.O +AI

Hanzi Freinacht (@hfreinacht) 's Twitter Profile Photo

These are dark times -- an old world order crumbles, a new one dawns, with the increasingly deranged masters Elon Musk and Donald J. Trump on top. At this moment, the dangerous path of AI development is ironically also our best hope for democracy, reason, and postcapitalism.

Liv Boeree (@liv_boeree) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Really excited to be an advisor on this new game called "Elowyn: Quest of Time" where you have to defeat an AI called Moloch. But as you'll see, it's not "defeating" in the classical sense... the game is very win-winny! (link in next tweet)

Really excited to be an advisor on this new game called "Elowyn: Quest of Time" where you have to defeat an AI called Moloch.  But as you'll see, it's not "defeating" in the classical sense... the game is very win-winny! 

(link in next tweet)