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I think of doing this except for suicide (which you shouldn't do) I fantasize about becoming a monk. That's a life role that can't be replaced with AI, provides meaning to yourself and to the community and guarantees you a certain amount of happiness – probably more than most jobs.

We have evidence of crop cultivation going back much further than 10kya. I would imagine they just used a different cereal than wheat. The Ohalo II site in Palestine shows cereal cultivation (Barley and Millet) 23kya. While it would certainly be interesting to have evidence of a non-cereal-cultivating metropole, the evidence doesn't quite bear that out.

Only if your company (and government) lets you!

How does it make sense to say that speech developed 60 kya when Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Chromosomal Adam are commonly dated 200+ kya? Not to mention the recent advances within the past few years that more or less prove Neanderthals and Denisovans spoke as well. With that information Homo heidelbergensis almost certainly spoke as well and if I could bet on it, I would advocate that the smart money would be on Homo Erectus having some level of speech too. In fact a recent paper argues that case: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13752-025-00521-8 It's unfortunately not on SciHub though so I can't attest to it.

Exactly. If anything, the country that would benefit most from heightened Europe-Russia tensions (as a result of these sorts of infrastructure "accidents") isn't even on the continent. I'm not ruling out Russia completely, but it would sure be stupid for them to effect this strategy. Additionally, Russians weren't the ones that blew up a pipeline at the start of the Russia-Ukraine war.

It sounds like people with terminal illnesses are getting thrown under the bus in order to justify banning open weight models, along with decreasing AI Capex in order to increase profit margins at American AI labs?

Is it just me or did this entire essay feel like it was penned by an LLM?

I really hope OpenAI doesn't take the bad press some people are giving them too seriously here. They should throw their whole weight behind the rest of the Millennium Prize Problems. To think – if everyone lets their egos calm down we could have the Riemann Hypothesis solved by the end of the year...

Super nice to be able to finally have voice mode search stuff in the background. The more conservational vibe is also a nice touch. The real game-changer we're all waiting on, though, is being able to vibecode/deeply interact with an OS through voice mode. Until then voice mode will continue to be a niche, interesting product. Once that's implemented, though, it will be one of the most important technologies available. There's a lot of people I know that don't use a lot of the frontier capabilities of AI right now because of the required typing interface. Once that's changed and you can interact with these capabilities through voice mode (and ideally on your phone) I definitely see them and lots of people like them becoming big users of AI.

The interesting thing about models this small is they should be able to be put on a single Taalas chip (the HC1 already runs a Llama 3.1 8B model). We're already at the point where half-decent reasoning could be run on an ASIC (and at mind-boggling speeds).

If the way someone is rejecting a trans person is considered a hate crime, maybe that someone is the problem? If someone were to beat you up or misgender you just because you're Southeast Asian that would kind of also be a problem.

Exactly. It's so interesting seeing the unstated assumptions software engineers let slip out. It really reveals the bubble they live in.

PurdueX has had some really interesting courses. I wouldn't recommend paying for them though since you can't deduct them like normal tuition expenses.

Why can't these remotest jobs just be done anywhere in the world? Why restrict it to people who are citizens/residents of the US?

Except OP has noticed that when they go out of ketosis everything gets worse again. They've effectively run numerous trials on themselves.

> But instead, the majority of the bettors against Biden bet on the astonishing outcome of “Trump wins by 280+ electoral votes.” That, it should be clear, was impossible — it would require results to be overturned not just in states with tight races but also in Democratic bellwethers like California.

That was not impossible at all once you take into account Trump's VP certification plan, which many people understood very early on. A longshot, yes, but certainly not impossible.

If anything, the prediction markets priced in an insurrection better than any pundit I recall watching. To flip it around and call prediction markets "irrational" in this situation is misguided and ignorant of political history.

> intellectually piracy is still not stealing

Piracy is a clear and self-evident moral good irrespective of how close or not it is to stealing. Justifying piracy based on wordplay opens you up to attack by people and organizations that like to destroy what is good through manipulative wordplay.

This is a huge source of emotional pain for me to be completely honest.

Are you vegan?

For most people I can understand why this would be true, especially if you have a family. For me, however, it was the exact opposite. When I first went to college I was abysmal at it and soon dropped out. After a few years of work experience, however, I went back and finished my degree while working full-time. Despite having much more to juggle I did vastly better at college my second go-around. I think having better time-management skills, being emotionally more mature and intuitively knowing that I needed that degree in order to get a better job all worked "against" it being more of a struggle, in my opinion.

From what I've seen, hundreds of millions of deaths are priced in. But that's nowhere close to 8 billion. Humanity will survive. It's just going to be unpleasant.

And in the Christmas spirit, he made his big discovery while cheating with his wife on a Christmas retreat in 1925-1926

>A few days before Christmas, 1925, Schrodinger, a Viennese-born professor of physics at the University of Zurich, took off for a two-and-a-half-week vacation at a villa in the Swiss Alpine town of Arosa. Leaving his wife in Zurich, he took along de Broglie's thesis, an old Viennese girlfriend (whose identity remains a mystery) and two pearls. Placing a pearl in each ear to screen out any distracting noise, and the woman in bed for inspiration, Schrodinger set to work on wave mechanics. When he and the mystery lady emerged from the rigors of their holiday on Jan. 9, 1926, the great discovery was firmly in hand.

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/07/books/the-lone-ranger-of-...

He was also an admitted pedophile. It is possible that that "mystery girlfriend" he was with while coming up with his revolutionary perspective on quantum physics was an underage girl he was grooming

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/how-erwin-s...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccacoffey/2022/01/24/schrdi...

I wonder how this may have impacted world history. Something along the lines of humans have grain storage >> rats are attracted to grain >> cats are attracted to rats >> humans are attracted to cats >> human populations with cats become slightly more schizoaffective (which in most premodern societies is not really pathological) >> these societies commune with the divine more/tell the future/develop more complex religious institutions >> these religious institutions help stabilize society

Kinda seems like a win-win to be honest.

That is an interesting hypothesis. I hope you are much happier as an adult.

It's also similar on a qualia level though. That's what I was getting at. In the same way how something may taste spicy or something looks blue there is a certain distinct set of feelings/mode-of-consciousness I have only ever felt in childhood, during retreat, and when on LSD.

I (and many people I have talked to) have come to a similar conclusion. What's really interesting is that going on a weeklong or so meditation retreat where you are meditating for 10 hours a day feels phenomenologically equivalent to microdosing LSD or (if you can remember) generally how you felt when you were happy as a child. This makes me think that the "trippiness" is a side effect of neurogenesis. Speaking with other people in the retreat-junkie/psychonaut/happy-childhood community agree only has helped me be more sure that this is the case.

This seems to me a much more moral way of doing things. Actually making the stuff is what's important.

Good writing, not wrong, also kinda makes me feel metal as hell for doing my taxes.

Ignoring whether or not this specific situation is true, describing how different environments select for different traits is not pseudoscience; it's the foundation of evolution.

While you only wrote that that website provides the "tools" it would have been very reasonable to infer from your comment that you were also implying that they agreed with Bible-alone teaching.