Max Novendstern
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Technology that generates abundance, and institutions that spread the benefits — these are the goals of our ideology
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King’s Disease (noun): when the thing that makes you the king is precisely what keeps you from enjoying it
Many such cases
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the most underrated technology right now: the capacity to generate egg cells from stem cells in arbitrary quantity + capacity to select for IQ among embryos means IVF will enable the selection of children with one-in-a-million IQ markers. this is not priced in.
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how it should work:
1. get sick
2. home testing machine → sequence viral DNA
3. viral DNA → mRNA therapy specs
4. mRNA therapy specs → automatic manufacturing of mRNA therapy patch
5. mRNA therapy patch → overnight Fedex
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Is there any single technology that would improve my life more than a phone that’s not a misaligned dopamine machine? Why not 10x more experiments here?
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Operation Warp Speed, but – hear me out – for everything
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"All roads lead to Rome: every successful (tech) company will become an AGI company" –
@ilyasut
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@ericjang11
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POV: SF thieves sawed down a parking sign to steal your bike in the middle of a residential block in the middle of the evening
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how many social problems are downstream the psychic damaged caused by modern childrearing? no child cried alone for hours at night but now they almost all do
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Because coding is expensive, we economize through generalized software (the best interface for the most people). When Codex + Replit drop the cost of coding to zero, we’ll learn there’s something else, personalized software
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The internet economy needs an investment bank. Prove your cash flows (via Stripe, Shopify, Patreon, etc. APIs) then sell debt or equity to anyone. Tokenize the instrument, so its liquid/borderless. Automate repayment/dividends. Would enfranchise many people.
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too bad Steve Jobs couldn’t complete his last project, which always felt like the culmination of his life’s interface work: Siri
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The most brazen modernist experiment is child-rearing
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pinned to my wall: “be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work” – Gustave Flaubert
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Christ’s solution to the game theory problem — love them no matter what — is underrated
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hypothesis -- if we have a fast takeoff, it’s not because our models got larger; it’s because current-size models wrote software programs, chained them to other programs, and that recursive, self-assembling graph traverses the space of all industrial processes
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give me an e-reader with a chatbot and notes system and nothing else. give me a typewriter with the same. strip computers of their dopamine faucets, leave their crystal balls
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dismissing God as an artifact of the mind -- a place on the map of human consciousness -- isn’t the damning take atheists believe it to be
that every mind comes preloaded with this place is enough to call it sacred
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The political divide now isn’t traditional versus progressive; it’s whether pysops work on you or not
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OH (by Nietzsche): the greatest period in your life begins when you gain the courage to rebaptize what’s most bad in you as the best of you
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that LASIK costs only $2,000 remains an astonishing whitepill on the power of free market biotechnology
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management principles:
1. go faster
the correct answer to “what should I be working on?” is almost always: “find new ways to squeeze out latency”
2. delete requirements relentlessly
3. raise your standards
then have the stamina to fight every day for that standard
4. if
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Life in 2022 is to ask minute-by-minute, does this serve my goals or am being programmed by a dopamine faucet?
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overheard: your life will suck by default but you'll get complete freedom to make it as beautiful as you can imagine is America's deal on a spiritual level
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one of the great game-theoretical insights of Christianity is that “forgiveness” is actually strength (even though it’s coded as weakness)
because forgiveness reifies free will
so long as you’re in the eye-for-an-eye regime your next move is dictated by your adversary. your
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during The Technological Stagnation Era (‘90-‘20) the best investment was nevertheless tech
crazy how important owning tech equity will be during The Re-Acceleration (‘20-)
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Because protein production is expensive, we economize through generalized therapies (the best proteins for the most people). When mRNA drops the cost of synthesizing proteins to zero, we’ll learn there’s something else, personalized therapies
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Please, someone, drop the cost of freezing eggs from $12,000 to $120. Would change so many lives for the better
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Avoid environments where you earn status by pretending to do the thing
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Every non-billionaire is a policy failure
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act as if you’re living in the version of the world where you’re right, because if you’re not it doesn’t matter anyway, is often good advice
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Every IV bag, every tube, every surface, every lotion, every calorie of food that premature babies touch in the first period of their lives is full of hormone disrupting chemicals that provably distort their neurological and reproductive development — this is our world
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The point of technology is to solve the riddle of Genesis, to get back to the Garden by eating the whole apple
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I buy that text is the “universal interface” but struggle with the claim that it’s the universal training set
for example I don’t think the set of all possible true sentences gets anywhere close to the set of all possible truths
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One take on GPT-3 is it’s isomorphic to a search engine. Massively useful in the creation of meaning, but not creating meaning
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religion is the antonym of free thought, I was told, then discovered that every biblical parable celebrates the free thinker’s defiance of the crowd
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“Infidelity was rampant in post-Soviet Russia,” he explained, walking into the restaurant with a mask on then immediately taking it off when he sat, “because communist mandates were absurd, so if you weren’t a fool you had to become a liar. And once you’re a liar you stay one.”
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internal family systems theory has this appealing idea: that all ‘parts of yourself’ are ultimately trying to help you — as best they know how
a good meditation is to extend this myth outward: *everyone on earth* is trying to help you, in the best way they know how
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california is the spiritual center the west
today’s machines can’t be conscious because consciousness is a field and they lack the hardware to detect it
dyslexia is the opposite of asperger’s, each different extremes on the variance/bias tradeoff
haven’t seen this as a twitter thread, so:
what true thing do you believe that few people agree with you on?
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if you failed it was because you were not good enough
learning any other lesson makes life less livable. you are spirited to the extent you sustain the rebellion against chaos
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Being jaded and nasty is probably the best single predictor of someone who will be successful on Twitter and unsuccessful in life
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The only assets to hold right now are market neutral hedge funds and jobs that generate productivity growth
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for better or worse I don't think there's a future for humanity where genetic engineering doesn't play a major role
we're either a spacefaring species that changes its nature – its intelligence, fertility, longevity, and empathy – or we never get up there
upgrade or go extinct
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pollution is more important than climate change. the latter’s solved by nuclear and is speculative. but microplastics, estrogenics, air particulates, glysophate, heavy metals, etc. — these are wrecking you now and require an industrial overhaul of unprecedented scale
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Synthetic bio is to industrials what crypto is to finance—the prospect a commodities market denominated in trillions is restructured, with tech incumbents can’t seize. This supercycle’s Coinbase is Solugen
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if you want to be a great thinker pick a simple, true, consequential idea and take it a hundred times more seriously than you currently do
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Imagine an AI that offered funding to every startup in the world, because for any given startup (equity, debt, tokens) it can price risk, such that {expected outcome} x {deal terms} > {LP return requirements}.
This AI would become the front door to Silicon Valley.
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Things that will be obvious in retrospect:
1. we're massively underinvested in Africa
2. we're massively overexposed to pollution
3. Adam Smith's legacy (the shift from moral discourse to incentive design as means of organizing society) wounded us in deep and unacknowledged ways
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@tszzl
The sunset over Tam makes you want to conquer the world while the fog over the English countryside makes you forlorn about lost time. Vista Determinism
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we truly live in a golden age for being highly curious. it’s so beautiful; i am grateful every day
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props to the monotheists for saying “don’t take idols” — they knew the only thing crazier than worshiping God is worshiping anything else
that it’s better to long for a God who might actually exist than for anything human to be perfect (you, her, his art, their cause, etc.) when
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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1. read a paper in a field you don't know
2. put each new concept into ChatGPT
3. put each tuple of concept/explanation into Anki
4. review at the end
a very nice way to learn about the world
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you will never know why Anna Karenina jumps in front of a train because Tolstoy doesn't tell you but also because -- the point -- Anna basically couldn't tell you either
compressing her high-dimensional heartbreak into low-dimensional sentences would be a stochastic and lossy
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it’s not a ‘black swan’ if you’ve seen it a half dozen times (SVB, Silvergate, FTX, Luna, etc.)
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OH: “the critics are not saying it’s impossible but are imagining what could happen if/when it works. The world has changed”
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when the AGIs roam the galaxies humans will still want to feel healthy. human biology is the ultimate substrate where ‘meaning’ resides and thus biotechnology will be the terminal industry.
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All progress is downstream intelligence and capital (shifts in bits and atoms) so it's a cause for optimism that our tech revolutions are in tools for thought and tools for capital (ML; crypto)
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@tszzl
the whitepill/blackpill is that with 60s-era reactor designs — but mass-manufactured, scaled up, and heated up — you can get to $.01 / kWh
then you can electrify steel production, create cheaper steel, thus create cheaper nuclear, recursively till $.001 / kWh
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what modern portfolio theory doesn’t account for is that if you blow up being massively long true technology it’s an honorable death. fuck diversification.
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Thiel called hedge funds “organizations with no allegiance to the past” and this seem structurally matched to our moment.
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At 33 they let you talk to God
(Christ when he died, Augustine when he wrote Confessions, Leonard Cohen when he dropped his first album, and so forth)
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striking how the game theoretic advances in poker, jujitsu, and chronic disease care — to list three different fields — cashed out to, be radically more aggressive
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if you want to accept yourself go to therapy if you want to change yourself go to God
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Introducing an experiment in the non-state redistribution of wealth via crypto...now with a friendly face!
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that you don’t have the spirit to burn the boats and go all in is, in fact, your problem
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Nietzsche’s idea that we should create art and technocapital so beautiful it drowns our suffering hits harder, on net, than Buddha’s, that we should surgically remove the feeling from our nervous systems — though both have their place
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Work backwards from the question, what’s newly possible when:
- neural nets improve by two orders
- electricity costs drop two orders (nuclear)
Then build an exposure to that future. Few will, but you’ll be happy in ten years you started now.
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Father, this prayer is for everyone that feels they're not good enough. This prayer's for everybody that feels like they're too messed up. For everyone that feels they've said "I'm sorry" too many times. You can never go too far when you can't come back home again. That's why I
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market and mission are the main streets of SF. nice work nominative determinists 👍
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striking that the three highly distinct technologies of our time – crypto, AI, VR – each run on GPUs
Here's what you need to know about Nvidia's insane earnings:
🟢 Quarterly net income up ~10x since last year.
🟢 Revenue up 101% from a year earlier.
🟢 >70% market share in AI chips.
🟢 Shares up over 3x this year!
For the full history of the company, just watch this video:
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The New York Times as conspiracy to crush East Coast elites, demographically and financially, by convincing them that motherhood and Bitcoin are scams
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make a map of Twitter radicalism — utopian techno-optimists, cottage-core reactionaries, woke neuro-Buddhists — and call that map, the future of American politics. it’s only a matter of the youth aging into institutional control
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algorithmic music is like pornography: it can be an intense sensory experience but it cannot be “intimate,” because there is no chance of confronting shared human consciousness, and no chance of elevating your own consciousness through that confrontation
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@VitalikButerin
@mnolangray
Another: "focus" versus "take high expected value bets as you see them." Outrageous successes in the latter camp, but most advice-givers advocate the former.
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overheard: your life will suck by default but you'll get complete freedom to make it as beautiful as you can imagine is America's deal on a spiritual level
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The r/wallstreetbets &
#defi
crossover is coming.
I expect a pseudonymous founder to set up a contract-for-difference engine in some country. Maybe legal in some places, do your own diligence!
But that would allow *uncensorable* on-chain exposure to the price of every stock.
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the correlation of effort to achievement is so high that the primary question is almost always, what incentivizes effort
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in America you need to fight daily against:
microplastic exposure
pesticide exposure
heavy metal exposure
toxic food & industrial additives exposures
just to get through your day without taking damage. no healthy society should require this.
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if the goal of your art is to maximize the area under the dopamine curve you are probably especially at risk of being replaced by today’s artificial intelligence
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New: inside the underground site where "neural networks" churn out fake IDs
- I tested, made two IDs in minutes
- used one to successfully bypass the identity verification check on a cryptocurrency exchange
- massive implications for crime, cybersecurity
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@nickcammarata
Another take is that actually almost no one has deep views on a given question, where their chain of reasons go back more than a few links. Rather they're improvising when asked and the conditions for that rhetorical performance get more conducive when the memes get more salient
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