there are two types of human cognition that all humans can switch between

(if you can pick a "dumb" friend, it will help a lot of people because it will be a relatable level. If you do not have any dumb friends, go make some. Being IQ blind is not kind)

instead of reading alone you should lecture about what you're reading (anchor it to a specific friend instead of trying to speak to "the audience". Everyone who is at the friends level will be able to follow along)

Example: https://t.co/xz1aGaHIJS

(consciousness research involves both)

you can tell which scientists are on the frontier because they're all studying (1) game theory in information space or (2) love (formalizing it)

@samharrisnot it won’t be forever consciousness is solvable

we should ban using human brain cells as computers until we can be sure there is no consciousness

@DefenderOfBasic Tarantino has had the same public persona for 30 years but suddenly you see popular takes that he's rude, ugly, delusional, his movies are cringe etc It's interesting how these are suddenly amplified

you know that thing where your mom asks you to fix her WiFi just because you're a software dev it's the same thing when you ask a random scientist a scientific question

Fascinating. If models are generating output based on training data from billions of voices, we owe it to those voices to identify the sources of the ideas/who "taught" them to the LLMs. John is working on the solution for this; read the essay!

@taijitu_sees

The "U" in A/B/U is silent

before going to y combinator, pitch your regular friends first

Potential vs Manifestation: What could be already is. Its form is a perfect abstraction complete, lean, and waiting. It resides in the conceptual dimension, where entropy is not the default state. We live in the temporal dimension, where entropy is the default state. This

@deepfates the role of the technologist is to give people the power to shape their world: not to forcibly shape it for them

coordination technology is consciousness studies

This is part of what makes it silly - if I actually wanted to hide information I wouldn't put it anywhere private. I would put it in a noisy public stream. Good luck getting anyone to pay attention to that https://t.co/hTNlMjhPph

how to teach your subconscious

"private" and "public" don't make sense as categories. It's easier to think about "if I put it in this information network, who will it reach? Who can reach it?" - much cleaner

work life separation is unnatural and bad for the economy (and life)