It's an Extropian world. We're just living in it.
The Extropians had pioneering discussions of cryptography, AI, genetic engineering, existential risk, singularity & much more.
An excellent deep dive on key historical docs from this important group:
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I started the mailing list. The policy for the seminal first years was that we didn't keep archives because people wanted to discuss topics that might not reflect well on them. Most of the early days are therefore not around.
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I knew several of them and was a lurker/reader on the email list mentioned. Worth mentioning the SF authors on it as well such as
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Fun fact: If you have a good musical ear, you can tell the speed of a passing vehicle by listening to the pitch interval it makes as it goes by. You don't even need perfect pitch since it only depends on the ratio.
If you hear more a major third or more, they're speeding!
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it's gotta be von neumann. smart people see von neumann the way guitarists see hendrix.
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Ok, all you geniuses: who’s a -smart- person’s idea of a smart person? Whose intellectual work and manner of presenting it has earned your respect? Or do we not commit ourselves that way on Twitter?
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This is very tangential, but even among scientists, debunking doesn't work.
Let's look at some of the empirical work on the topic of replication failures.
First: papers that don't replicate receive more citations than ones that do.
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So uhm….A new meta-analysis of >200 effect-sizes (n > 60,000) in @NatureHumBehav found that on average debunking scientific misinformation had no effect
Yikes!
nature.com/articles/s4156
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You can buy negative CO2 with money or pain, and it’s far cheaper measured in money.
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Articles like this show why decarbonization has to involve energy abundance. You cannot ask people to live in sweltering heat for the sake of the planet. They just won't do it. Let people cool their homes with clean energy that's too cheap to meter.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/
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