ACX is excited to be a founding participant in several new Substack ventures, including:
- Substack Electric Vehicles, to revolutionize renewable transportation
- Substack Mars Rockets, to advance affordable space travel.
- Substack Brain Implants, to cure deadly neurological di
I think if you leap into a reservoir to save drowning children, especially if the situation was caused by a runaway trolley, you should also get an honorary philosophy degree.
Soviet swimmer, Shavarsh Karapetyan. In 1976, he saw a trolleybus plunge into a reservoir and made 40 dives to rescue 20 people.
Injuries from glass shards hospitalized him for 45 days, where he developed pneumonia and sepsis, which ended his swimming career.
Sorry to anyone who sent me a link to anything on Figma. I thought it was a dumb attempt to troll me and didn't investigate further. I now realize I was confusing it with Ligma.
Iceland's parliament is the Thing. Brazil's currency is the Real. Botswana's president is the Ourpoliticalandeconomicsystemhasobjectiveexistenceandisntjustamasshallucinationonthepartofthegoverned.
"Birthing people" will inevitably get shortened to "birthers".
Far-future historians will inevitably rediscover texts claiming "Trump was a birther", and have acrimonious scholarly debates over whether to take them literally.
THE CRYPTOECONOMIC ARGUMENT: Each token only has value because it is backed by another token. But that token is also arbitrary and valueless unless backed by some third token. This regress must end in some token which is the ultimate source of all value, which can only be God.
The caterpillar of the fruit-piercing moth has evolved a unique defense against potential predators: it overwhelms them with the sudden realization that they are but another drifting speck in a vast, beautiful, bewildering cosmos
📷 Arabinda Pal https://bit.ly/38u2AeL
Seen on the Wikipedia page for The Peter Principle: "The concluding chapter applies Peter's Principle to the entire human species...and asks whether humanity can survive in the long run, or will it become extinct upon reaching its level of incompetence as technology advances. "
"Sir, can I see proof of COVID vaccination before you enter?"
- What? No! That's last month's crisis! You should ask for proof I'm not a Russian spy!
"I'm sorry, but to protect your health we still need proof of vaccination."
- Sounds like something a RUSSIAN SPY would say!
's 5-year-old is playing chess with my wife downstairs. I just caught a snippet of conversation: "Do you have to research Resurrect Bishops before you can research Resurrect Knights?"
My anxiety screening instrument: ask patients to rate their anxiety from one to ten. Ignore the number and give them one point for each caveat in their answer, eg "it's like a 6, but on some days it's a 7, but it depends if anxiety is the same as obsessiveness" gets a 2.
"Our results demonstrate that the more similar two persons are in autistic traits, the higher is the perceived quality of their friendship" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33104781/
I saw the phrase "a constant impulse to overleap the process of becoming genuinely sure of something to get to the part where you're smug about it" somewhere and can't stop thinking about it.
Star Wars feels dated because Lucas couldn't imagine the Rebels using self-flying starfighters
Dune feels dated because Herbert couldn't imagine the Bene Gesserit using iterated embryo selection
I'm disappointed that guy said "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads" when he could have said "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by adness"
The Latin word for God is "Deus" - or as the Romans would have written it, "DEVS". The people who create programs, games, and simulated worlds are also called "devs". As time goes on, the two meanings will grow closer and closer.
"Announcing the Vitalik Buterin Fellowships in AI Existential Safety" by @dfrsrchtwtshttps://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5ZpKLWEkwd3wQWNFu/announcing-the-vitalik-buterin-fellowships-in-ai-existential…