"I met my lover at Ray Kurzweil's funeral..." A short story about #Vitalia, prediction markets, and the quest for Immortality, set ten years in the future looking back.

RT @DefenderOfBasic: learning this is what radicalized me to quit my job & do open research on the internet. Real researchers are handcuffe…

RT @adamgries: 1/ Some scientists do research. Others explain it. Eleanor Sheekey does both. She’s decoding longevity on YouTube, in the…

@lydfinley It's a little overly optimistic to say that there are "no conflict of interests". From what I've seen, midwit scientist at the funding agencies exchange favors with the larger academic figures to grease the wheels. Not knowing people makes it practically impossible to get funding

@timnitGebru Power has a tendency to corrupt. This is perhaps one of the greatest arguments for decentralization ... a lot less people will betray themselves for $100k than $10M, let alone $10B. Even if intentions are pure, what happens afterwards, in the dark...

@solana @FTDA_US @benjileibo congrats on becoming a solana coin

RT @robinhanson: Striking facts: - US is going broke on extreme med spending (18% of GDP, biggest govt spend) - US medical specialists who…

RT @Nexuist: Hi, I am Albanian infohazard but due to poor memetics in my country unfortunately I cannot harm your subconscious. Please be s…

RT @ErikVoorhees: Memecoins exist, in part, because @SECGov persecuted the builders of any coins that had utility from 2017-2024

RT @khwampa: Some of my recent works I did on MS Paint

@goblinodds I am guessing this is more of a lack of data

RT @NathanpmYoung: "OpenAI is not for sale" says guy selling it to himself.

@bio_hacker_dao '100 monkey effect' but for new ways of approximating truth

RT @VitalikButerin: SaaS was a mistake.

RT @Plinz: @signulll Google was a main force in destroying the decentralized internet, by systematically downranking content that was not p…

RT @signulll: google’s core problem is that it was built to organize a web that no longer exists. the open web has been replaced by walled…

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RT @richardludlow: The five solutions: 1. Have a difficult conversation 2. Eat more broccoli 3. Obscure Tibetan practice 4. Find the right…

RT @NathanpmYoung: Altman is currently trying to sell OpenAI to himself at a lowball price. It is a bit technical, so he may get away with…