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tweet abt philosophy, consumer tech, ai, brain stuff 🧠 prev @bainandcompany , @avataar , cognitive science @uva
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how can we make web3 accessible to people who don’t have a ‘sunk cost’ budget to experiment with tokens or bet or NFT communities?
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starbucks is a co-working space company disguised as a coffee chain
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16 y/o me really thought this was the end.. happy international failure (/ take more risks) day
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@sama
- ability to add attachments as an input (eg: generate summary from work report)
- social features: shareable links for output, API access
- citations for generated content (so humans can assess validity of claims)
- ability to save results + search, filter, & index saved convos
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ladies, if he’s:
- high maintenance but grounded
- loaded w/ creatine
- appears sweet but isn’t
that’s not your boyfriend, that’s a blueprint-protocol nutty pudding
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Our official video!
#coding
#tech
#entrepreneur
#nonprofit
#startup
#Bots
#chatbot
#Chatbots
#gamedev
#indiedev
#GrowthHacking
#hacking
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2021 manifesto
high: energy
low: stress
more: chocolate, words, sleep
less: screentime
do: hydrate, meditate, graduate
don’t: complicate, speculate
capture: accidents, tangents, bugs
embrace: imperfection, deep connection, rejection
input > output; work = axiomatic
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18 months ago sahil accidentally called me his girlfriend and i said aha now you can’t take it back and here we are now
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2021: crypto
2022: AI for early adopters (via openai)
2023: AI goes mainstream
2024: AR for early adopters (via apple)
2025: AR goes mainstream
2026: rebranded crypto hype cycle (focus on digital assets)
2029: brain-computer interfaces for early adopters
2030: BCIs go mainstream
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@darylginn
If soccer players aren’t allowed to hold the ball with their hands, why don’t 2 players press their chests against it and let the others form a turtle formation to walk towards the goal.
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political debates 50 years from now will be about:
1- equal opportunity cognitive enhancement and biohacking
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what is more desirable — a portfolio of crazy/risky/colorful life experiences, or a string of sustained moments of quiet contentedness?
heard somewhere that with age/time, we regret inaction proportionately more, wondering how much this should skew appetite for risk
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@startingfromnix
authentic > curated, intimacy is the new social
we want to share big moments with wider networks, but reserve casual, impulse posting for our inner circle.
a low-friction, time-efficient, fun way to stay in touch, exchange ideas, or learn
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“Prepare for the post-covid cultural transformation, never stop asking why, and be an architect in the next period of our collective history” -
@alexisohanian
’s commencement speech at UVA graduation🔥
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some thoughts on extending consciousness & preserving humanity
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thank you to everyone who made the Progress Lab launch event so special!✨
grateful for an evening filled with friends, food, and thoughtful conversations around using transformative tech as a force for good.
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a summary of the AI Consciousness Report
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why it always gotta be ‘do you accept all cookies’ and never here I made you some cookies
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most compelling, multifaceted, interdisciplinary approach to the simulation argument. via
@Rizstanford
@hackernoon
#AI
#QuantumComputing
#Matrix
#physics
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realising that 83% of successfully adulting is, irrespective of your energy levels, just showing up.
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apple’s (probably) about to announce their AR/VR headset at WWDC this june. if true, is significant because
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🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
> 4th country to land on the moon
> only country to land on the southern polar region of the moon
> the budget for Interstellar = $165M, total budget for Chandrayaan-3 = $75M
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we want to share big moments with wider networks, but reserve casual, impulse posting for our inner circle.
a low-friction, time-efficient, fun way to stay in touch, exchange ideas, or learn
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read ‘Flowers for Algernon’ and wow the gentle, self-aware, inevitable decline of intelligence described is heartbreaking
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my prediction is that if twitter fails, it will be due to the speed & inconsistency with which they are shipping feature updates & making product changes
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if you bring two humans in an isolated system close enough together to allow information exchange, does the intelligence of the system equal or exceed the sum of their intelligences?
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100 questions to guide my thinking in 2022:
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scrolling through social media is exhausting bc of the diversity & intensity of emotions you experience as you traverse a feed -
someone’s puppy, a school shooting, your friend is engaged, a new viral epidemic, in the span of 30 seconds
we’re tired all the time because
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a blockchain-enabled neurotech instrument that enters a thought into a public ledger only if it hasn’t been thought before
this would award tokens to whoever thinks a thought first, rewarding users for creativity
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absurd product request but i’d find it so valuable to have a notetaking app that can capture notes i take in dreams and port them over to the real world
@PropheticAI
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things that increase neurogenesis and brain health:
- Aerobic exercise: running, swimming increases new hippocampal cells (demonstrated results in adults with degenerative brain diseases)
- Learning new skills: Increases the survival rate of new neurons in the hippocampus
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throwback to college when professors said a cheat sheet had to be a single, handwritten page
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what if every staircase was a cascading piano so as we scurried and ran we did so to the sound of music
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modern spaces increasingly prioritise utility & function over beauty — visited a rare spot today that celebrated beauty in the ordinary, & quirkiness for the sake of it
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groupchats, BeaReal, Houses… intimacy is the new social.
Big news :)
@clubhouse
is splitting up… into many clubhouses.
It’s a huge evolution of the app that
@rohanseth
, the team and I have been working on for months.
Beta is here!
Why the change?….
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no side-effects from the vaccine just a strong urge to use Microsoft™ products
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hypothesis: netflix down 30% not because of other streaming cos, but bc of short-form video content (tiktok)
catering to shorter attention spans.
cognitive implications can affect market trends.
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you are just an instantiation of a larger consciousness that chose to pay attention to its component parts
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goals for 2024:
- preserve mental energy & mindspace to read physical books thru the year
- create space for regular workouts / strength building (then, climb a v3-5)
- prevent iq point drops thru mindless scrolling
- work w/ startups (AI / emerging tech)
- create space to
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the way i gave my sister my credit card info in bits over 3 different platforms for security and she just read it out back to me on the phone to confirm
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was on a work call outdoors when a bluebird nosedived into my hair - after much headshaking, i was able to get it out only by jumping into a nearby pool fully clothed. and it’s only monday.
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my contribution to the waning field of techno-optimistic literature
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love eclipse day because it brings people together to look at something collectively — for a brief moment, to share a view of the world, and experience mutual wonder.
and the pictures are so happy! For a change we’re looking up, out of ourselves — not into a device or lens or
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it’s actually almost beautiful to see the whole world in mutual wonder / awe of something at the same time
i spend most of my day at a coffee shop and the number of ai related conversations i overhear is insane. we have truly entered a golden age
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Wearable Tech, Fitness & Health Perception - my first piece for
@GOQii
:)
#tech
#technology
#goqii
#fitness
#startup
#WearableTech
#HCI
#UX
#Wearables
#designthinking
#AkshayKumar
#marathon
#fitbit
#medium
#HealthTech
#health
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fascinated by the rehearsal of embodied cognition during REM sleep.
> swam ~40 laps at 9pm
> fell asleep and dreamt of swimming laps all night
> more accurately, had a *memory* of swimming laps for hours, recollecting specific unique laps
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Excited to announce that
@techstartmumbai
has been selected by the UN ‘Sustainable Development Solutions Network’ as one of 50 projects contributing to the UN’s
#SustainableDevelopment
goals!
#tech
#nonprofits
#nonprofit
#startup
#AI
#YouthSolutions
#YSR2018
#jobs
#work
#hiring
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would love to chat w india-based startup folks looking to get early access to young talent. dms open if this sounds interesting!
if you're a startup in india looking to do internships dm me. working on a fellowship(ish) with two frens
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(trying to impress mentor with facts about octopi)
me: so its nervous system extends to its tentacles, and that’s potential evidence for a distributed consciousness
mentor: distributed like.. the blockchain?
me: …
mentor: …
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@waitbutwhy
Similar concept to the Buddhist idea that self-improvement is altruistic: it is important to achieve emotional clarity because it has downstream effects for others, and we live in a socially networked world
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adulthood is friend dates where you independently bring ziploc bags of condiments / protein power to dinner
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apple is a social networking platform, BeReal is the metaverse, and amazon is a smart-home company
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DC friends! I’ll be co-hosting an event for founders, VCs, policy folks, & academics who are interested in thinking about emerging technology and the future:
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the pursuit of civilizational-scale goal-alignment using biomarker-tracking and discipline — amazing.
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what are some resources to learn about the current state of LLMs? Semi-technical papers / courses / book recs all welcome
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symmetries in the natural world exist(ed) to be discovered.
now we’re living in increasingly synthetic worlds, & creating new patterns & dimensions of meaning in our virtual realities
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low confidence prediction: one day we will develop emotional relationships with AIs, and be woefully unprepared on how to think about them as relational entities
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@benedictevans
no company better positioned than apple to launch a device with a dozen always-on cameras
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In NYC for the month and looking to meet people interested in effective altruism, AI ethics, philosophy, tech & VC - say hi if you’re around!🍕
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@CXGonzalez_
that’s interesting! Sometimes feels like play-to-earn/metaversey games have a high barrier to entry or require a significant time investment to figure out what’s going on. ++ they tend to cater to select demographics. Wonder if there’s a way to more broadly enable access
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society if we had a button to toggle email on/off, so that your inbox could only receive emails when you switch it on
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uva kids: can we get a spring break
uva admin: we have a spring break at home
the spring break at home:
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monetizing your dopamine addiction is the foundation of the passion economy
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wrote something on embodied cognition in dreams and virtual reality:
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day 3 in the desert:
- found dino fossil
- shoes melted
- accidentally sunmaxxed (now mild photophobia)
- mistook rattlesnake pit for great photo op
- still haven’t read dune
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love going through old writing and seeing how my beliefs have evolved over time - assuming personal growth, writing over time is like version-controlling your belief set
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Most people are wrong about the future. Most billionaires just made bigger bets on it than other people
@Scobleizer
Most people are wrong about the future. Most billionaires just made better bets on it than other people
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context switching comes so easy to genzs who entered the workforce during the pandemic - no real separation b/w work time & life time, just persisting in a continuous limbo, somewhere b/w the two
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our base-reality is music, and we’re just vibrations traveling along through the passage of time
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consciousness is a model of the contents of your attention – you can design your conscious experience by controlling the direction of attention.
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Apple Pro Vision set to launch in ‘24 at $3.5K; likely that the price point will come down by the 2nd/3rd gen, by which point it will likely go mainstream. So far, timeline is tracking
2021: crypto
2022: AI for early adopters (via openai)
2023: AI goes mainstream
2024: AR for early adopters (via apple)
2025: AR goes mainstream
2026: rebranded crypto hype cycle (focus on digital assets)
2029: brain-computer interfaces for early adopters
2030: BCIs go mainstream
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