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High level goals for humanity: .1. Pass / derisk the great filters.2. Reach type 1 on Kardashev scale .3. Launch von Neumann probes to explore the galaxy.
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Financial innovation doesn’t just happen on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley. Every state has a role to play. Find out how all 50 states are engaging with blockchain ↓.
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intelligence is the universe evolving to more efficiently explore the state space of what’s possible - we live in the most interesting of times & places.
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nothing makes you appreciate how much more energy could be extracted from high energy photons than standing in the sun on a hot day and feeling your skin burn.
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procrastination feels like a form of background batch processing. at least that's how i justify it.
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someone pls build a thing that lets me send all snail mail to diff address and then only puts important things into a DM.
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I know there is a mismatch in capability and regulation when I spend 50%+ of my time now manually driving as the car has banned me from autopilot for not paying attention. the manual driving is far more dangerous than a distracted person letting autopilot drive.
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looking for excellent engineers to join the force - DM me if interested.
Announcing Grok for Government - a suite of products that make our frontier models available to United States Government customers. We are especially excited about two new partnerships for our US Government partners . 1) a new contract from the US Department of Defense.2) our.
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Plants suck at converting photons from the sun into energy (0.15%) vs pv solar panels (20%) - the one thing going for plants is they self replicate. But if we have a choice of how to use land & how to store / consume energy it should be PV + battery + electric system.
Corn crop is effectively a really inefficient solar panel. It's absorbing and converting solar energy to stored energy through photosynthesis. Then we need to do work to harvest it, process it to fuel and eventually burn it for energy, creating waste heat along the way. Remove.
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sometimes I wonder if I’m playing a variant of Roy: A Life Well Lived, and if so how does that change the game play.
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honor to work with such a great team - thx for making a good model sir. join xAI if you’re interested in building large scale compute, models, and products.
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if you play the game on easy mode, you eventually get the point where you want to restart on hardest level, only now you have one life, skip to hard mode and try to play the perfect game with no regrets.
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RT @PardonMyTake: Tuesday night max woke Big Cat up with a flashlight at 2am because he thought we were going to get sued. @forthepeople ht….
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the sensation of feeling an answer to a big question fleeting just beyond the edge of awareness, seeing only glimpses makes me really want a slightly bigger head
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our universe is pretty rare in configuration space - if strong nuclear force were:.* 1% weaker - stars wouldnt make much carbon preventing carbon based life & less heavy element production would delay planet formation & take longer for evolution to occur before stars die .* 1%
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if you ever want to feel late stage civilization vibes just try to do a simple home improvement in san francisco involving the city.
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