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Bipedal Primate / Conscious Being.
Sagan and Feynman Series 
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Abolish peer review: first outright call I’ve encountered to simply drop it.
It doesn’t work, it’s hugely wasteful, it’s worse than nothing, it can’t be fixed—writes @a_m_mastroianni. experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and8
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Succinct summary on the state of A.I. and Humanity - "Society is not ready for a step function inflection in our ability to costlessly produce anything connected to text. Human morality does not move that quickly, and it’s not obvious how we now catch up."
Primates of Cosmos: The 4th Coming of A.I.
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/6 Training wheels are useful for transitioning to free cycling. But for psychedelics, why not just... lower the dose? Why the invention of a whole new, potentially less effective drug? Would love to hear this challenged!
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/5 I'm skeptical that transformations can be achieved whilst most of my default sensory faculties are undisrupted. An analogy can be drawn to training wheels on a bike - Very appealing for control, but fundamentally slower, and less capable.
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/4 If sober control is the benefit, then I'll probably just avoid that inner confrontation, or tepidly dip my toes in. But then the depth of transformation is shallow and limited. If frame disruptions are critical for healing, then hallucinations might be complimentary?
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/3 Am I romanticizing? If psychedelic therapy is effective because it induces "radical frame disruption" in a caretaking environment - Then encountering my lurking demons whilst staring clearly at office furniture, vs tripping doesn't make them go away.
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/2 I see the mainstream appeal, of course - tripping is intimidating. But deep healing without hallucinations seems contradictory to me, or at least significantly disempowered.
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Can anyone help me understand non-hallucinogenic psychedelic drug research? It seems almost medically incoherent? /🧵
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This A.I. poem about TikTok and Capitalism is astonishing... But, my gob smacked feelings diminished after I noticed #chatgpt was copying exact lines. Writer's prose is largely ignored, unlike DALLE-2 which respects the artist's unique style. See photos 👇
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This first episode of After Socrates will officially be released on January 9th 2023!!
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If Queen Woke and King Anti-Woke love each other, maybe we all can too ❤️💕
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"Listen to what your gut says" = "Highly ruminative individuals with depression exhibit abnormalities in the neural processing of gastric interoception." Fascinating when science lends supports to woo 🪄🔮
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Egregorian Chants: Emergent Harmonies Within the Twitter Spheres.
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Aye , I thought you were at your best when you loved your enemies. Remember Steelmanning the other side? Rogerian arguments? The SJW left are human beings, even if they don't treat you like one. Your tongue is spicy these days - so much venom. Wishing you well.
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GPT-4 is rumored to be coming soon, sometime between Dec - Feb
- GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters
- GPT-4 supposedly has 100 trillion parameters
It is something like 500x more powerful than GPT-3
What kinda stuff will you be able to create with GPT-4!?
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The largest consequence of Elon taking over Twitter may well be not any specific policy decision he makes, but rather the morale effect of his supporters feeling emboldened and his detractors feeling like they are arguing on enemy territory. This is happening already.
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Free speech is essential, but absolutism is also tyranny. So what *should* get you banned from Twitter? How about when you host an event at the Capital that lead to riots, disruptions to democratic process, and deaths? I dunno, seems like a pretty reasonable precedent.
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New Primates of Cosmos is up: Angels, Demons, and A.I. Lab Leaks
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One of those reads where afterwards I'm like, "Damn, this is going to dominate my perceptual framework for a while." Games People Play, The psychology of human relationships
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Seems like 99% of conversational breakdown is resolved by allowing people to define their words: E.g. "Ok, I'll play with your definition of X" compared to "No, X must be defined my way". The former encourages perspective taking/empathy, the latter serves dominating narratives.
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do you ever feel like you've spent your whole life just reconstructing common wisdom from scratch
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The challenge of defining "life" is resolved by perceiving the whole universe to be alive, and entropy just has the upper hand in some regions.
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Just had my first cup of coffee after a Sober October detox and I am flying through new dimensions ☕️🌈
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This is coming. I wonder if this will decimate non-real time in-person, face-to-face communication. The environmental impact of this would be incredible. We were so close to being able trust remote async communications, these communications are not trustworthy.
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This weekend I built =GPT3(), a way to run GPT-3 prompts in Google Sheets.
It's incredible how tasks that are hard or impossible to do w/ regular formulas become trivial.
For example: sanitize data, write thank you cards, summarize product reviews, categorize feedback...
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Very good (and maddening) podcast on Lab Leak, EcoHealth, etc.
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Specifically, this, (should timestamp to 52 mins, your answer up to 55 mins)
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To what degree did you find this to be the case? Was the amount of consulting requests above or below what you would expect from institutions who got it wrong? I'm interested in your experience as a corruption / rent seeking barometer. Thank you!
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Twitter is full of straw-man arguments that enrage and divide us.
Luckily, scientists have just discovered a groundbreaking cure! 👇
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“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”
- Carl Sagan
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