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Let's build a world where we care for one another while we can. 🌹
Brockville, Ontario, Canada
Joined March 2008
Twitter was a hellscape before, but it was tolerable. This current X iteration is brutal. @elonmusk is not a moron, but at least for me he is systematically killing twitter and that makes so little sense. I wonder: What will replace it now that Twitter is effectively dead?
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Everything you see today on X will be forgotten. Getting emotional over tweets and opinions is pointless and honestly unhealthy. The only thing that actually matters right now is making sure you don’t die before 2030. Because if you make it, you’ll witness a post scarcity
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QR code is for https://t.co/FJD3yROAlC to show off my qr code generator @ https://t.co/qFNBSqe6EW -- For the record, it's not super good to click links you don't know you can trust. I'm working on a generic fix for this, BTW. Meantime...
Basic income costs less than poverty. Canadians are looking for leaders who understand this and will fight for it.
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Unsolicited shoutout to @DespairCom for simply brilliant products. I never buy and I never will, but I admire their dark spirit. That should be enough.
despair.com
We bring the people of the world together so you can watch them tear each other apart.
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We can covenant for fundamental rights: -- 1.4 Right to Equitable Access to the Means of Flourishing --
with basic income, health improves because stress fades—families eat better, sleep sounder, and focus on thriving
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rosencrantz and guildenstern and now tom stoppard are dead? When will it all end?
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This is how people should live and if covenant, organize, and act as a collecive, we can.
Sometimes I imagine the life we could finally live once work is optional. Here’s my dream. I wake up without an alarm, my two kids climbing into bed with me, warm and sleepy and full of questions. No rush. No inbox. Just a slow morning with tea, sunlight and the feeling that
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In 2014 I elected to go with "Unlimited Internet" bandwidth for reasons.
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6th sense Debugging: Being the unwitting ghost of a detective in a crime movie where you are the murderer *and* the victim.
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Copyright law is a grotesque illegitmate grab at our own culture -- yours and mine -- and it cannot stand. We have a *lot* of problems in our social contracts that leave people homeless and starving because of rent-seeking greed. We do not have to accept it and we should not.
I’m honestly shocked right now. If this ruling stands, it could set a precedent that doesn’t just hit OpenAI, but the entire AI ecosystem. We’re talking about the very tools that could cure cancer, slow aging, fight climate change and accelerate scientific progress by decades…
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"Most ceilings survive because nobody tests them." -- Leonardo Freixas
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The Longevity Revolution: How Artificial Intelligence is Challenging the Paradigm of Evolutionary Canalization
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This.
2010: "AI will never be able to be creative. That requires a soul." AI creates Art/Music. -> Goalpost Moved. 2015: "AI can't reason or solve novel problems." AlphaGo wins. -> Goalpost Moved. 2020: "AI can't understand context or nuance." LLMs arrive. -> Goalpost Moved.
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"The assumption that the scientific method will always ensure a natural selection for the good science would seem to be somewhat optimistic; that much is clear when looking at how the climate science community handles its uncertainties."
judithcurry.com
by John Ridgway In an earlier essay [1] I explained how positive feedbacks can lead to potentially problematic scientific mono-cultures. I also acknowledged that poor research design and data...
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This caught my eye "Let's build a world where we care for one another while we can. 🌹" and I thought "This guy gets it", then I realized it was me. That happens to me a lot.
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