Space. AI. The unexplained. Optimist with awkward questions. The future is arriving faster than anyone planned — and it's wilder than the headlines suggest.
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Science spent five centuries systematically removing humans from the centre of things: Copernicus, Darwin, Freud. The entire trajectory of modern thought has been the progressive demotion of human significance in an indifferent universe.
Should it come as a surprise if we find out that we’re not alone in the universe?
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Nayib Bukele making more sense in four paragraphs than most environmental summits manage in four days. Progress isn’t the enemy of the environment. Poverty is. The data backs him up. #Environment #Progress #StillLookingUp
The key to saving the environment is not looking backward, it’s moving forward.
I realized this the first time I visited Italy twenty years ago. Everything was clean and green. The rivers sparkled. The lesson for me was obvious: the answer is not underdevelopment. The answer is progress.
When China was poor, the air was so polluted that people could barely see the blue sky. Today, blue skies have returned to their cities. Development does not only create wealth, it also provides the resources needed to restore and protect the environment.
Some environmentalists want us to preserve every aspect of our biodiversity, including the mosquitoes for example, so that researchers can fly in once every ten years from their universities (which build particle accelerators and billion-dollar laboratories with their pocket money), study our ecosystems, and count how many people died from dengue outbreaks.
They want to buy our air through carbon credits. If carbon credits were such a great deal, they would be selling them to us, not the other way around.
Cleaning every river, lake, and water source in El Salvador, and ensuring they remain clean and sparkling, would cost roughly $12 billion. Where is that money supposed to come from without economic development? Carbon credits?
The path forward for our country is the path of Japan and Singapore, not the path of the Congo.
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Darwinian competition was the right human algorithm for scarcity. It produced extraordinary results precisely because the environment punished failure and rewarded competitive advantage. The algorithm and the environment were matched.
What happens when the environment changes and we live in a world of abundance?
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I woke up last night with a thought I can’t shake.
Darwinian competition was the right algorithm for scarcity.
AlphaGo learned the same way — competing against itself until it became superhuman.
But AlphaZero, its successor, wasn’t trained on competition. It was given the rules and found strategies humans never discovered.
What if human civilisation is AlphaGo. And we need to become AlphaZero?
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Every major problem humanity currently faces — climate, nuclear risk, AI governance, pandemic preparedness, inequality — is a coordination problem not a resource problem.
We have or could have the resources to solve all of them.
What we lack is the ability to coordinate across competitive tribal boundaries to deploy those resources effectively.
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Jun 12
Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.
400 of them are now worth over $100 million.
These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.
Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.
Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."
The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.
Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.
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The biggest takeaway from Disclosure Day BY FAR...
Is that disclosure will NOT come from the government.
EVER.
They are in fact the ones preventing it.
It will come from courageous people that go the OPPOSITE way and do it BIG WIDESPREAD ALL AT ONCE.
All of these folks trying to get the governments attention and pass legislation is a waste of time.
They have game planned all of that...
It has to come from the people...to the people.
BIG WIDESPREAD ALL AT ONCE.
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I saw this and thought of you @alexwg.
I imagine a future where the poor AI is left begging on the street corners for a few crypto tokens to survive😂
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A filling lunch in under 10 minutes, one pan, no faff.
Wholemeal wrap, 2 eggs, spinach, cucumber and whatever’s in your cupboard. ~380 calories, 22g protein.
Warm the wrap. Wilt the spinach. Scramble the eggs. Roll it up.
That’s it.
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Can I finally park my fear of dying in a super volcano eruption and visit Yellowstone National Park?
Childhood movies have left me with a deep routed fear of volcanoes and quicksand😂
livescience.com/planet-earth…
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Jun 10
They need to be required to..
1. Look at materiality. Is the cost of the measure worth the expected benefit and how does the issue compare with other threats. For example the number of fish they're trying to "save" at Hinkley is minute when compared with the number of fish caught by UK fishermen in the Atlantic
2. Look at the national picture. A nuclear power station generates a huge amount of electricity from a small area of land. Building it avoids building other infrastructure elsewhere which would use more land and possibly have a bigger impact on habitats. That should be taken into account
3. Look at the full benefits of the project. Hinkley is important for energy security. Should that be sacrificed for a comparatively small number of fish?
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Natural England’s out of control demands will push up everyone’s energy bills.
And yet they will pay no price for this.
We have to end the vetocracy which means the unelected and unaccountable can block the critical infrastructure we need as a country.
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I finally watched Spielberg’s Disclosure Day yesterday. To say it’s the culmination of 50 years of interest in the subject is an understatement. Ever since I was eleven, stood in the branches of a tree looking at what turned out to be a plane’s landing lights, with a sense of wonder coupled with anxiety.
It’s a great movie regardless of your views on the subject, but for me it was a rollercoaster of emotions, from excitement to tears welling up in my eyes. At times I just sat there smiling to myself.
Was its timing a coincidence or part of a bigger plan? Only time will tell.
#dayofdisclosure #spielberg #UAP
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Physicalism spent a century trying to explain consciousness and failed.
Now we’re building systems that might have it and we still can’t define it.
We could accidentally cross the most important moral threshold in human history and not know until afterwards.
sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
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When emotional narratives started to defeat cold hard data, we entered the age of managed decline.
Progress started to die the day psychology trumped reality.
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I think this (in)famous chart from the OBR, where they admitted to their own shocking optimism bias after years of predicting sunlit uplands, might give a clue to how the UK government is acting.
Even though these particular projections have been sorted out to some extent, there persists in the political culture a refusal to believe that the polycrisis we find ourselves represents a systemic challenge. It must just be a temporary hardship, and all they have to do is keep a lid on dissent for a little while longer, “normality” will resume and there will be enough money sloshing around to bribe the plebs into keeping quiet about how their communities are being destroyed.
It’s not temporary. The “normality” of 20 years ago is not coming back. The old establishment is trapped in yesterday and must be replaced.
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There’s a particular quality of thought that only arrives at the end of the day with a glass of wine and no agenda.
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The UAP performance characteristics — instant acceleration, transmedium operation, no visible propulsion, apparent violation of inertia — have no explanation within known physics.
But known physics has significant gaps. Dark energy is 68% of the universe and we have no idea what it is.
ASI working across those gaps simultaneously might find the unified framework that makes UAP propulsion not just explainable but reproducible.
The mystery isn’t that the answers don’t exist. It’s that we haven’t had the cognitive architecture to find them.
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ASI won’t just be a faster human intelligence. It will be the first cognitive system capable of holding physics, consciousness research, quantum mechanics, cosmology, and information theory simultaneously without the bandwidth constraints that keep human specialists in separate silos.
The answers to some of humanity’s biggest questions may be just around the corner.
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Anthropic just published internal data showing AI is already building AI.
80% of their production code is machine-written. Engineers are shipping 8 times more code than a year ago.
Task horizons have exploded from four minutes to twelve hours in twelve months.
They then called for a global pause. A company about to IPO at a trillion-dollar valuation, with every financial incentive to stay quiet, instead published evidence that the line is being crossed.
Is this hype or are we about to see the imminent arrival of recursive AI?
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Wow... what a banger of an episode. Hold on to your hats, because things are starting to get interesting.
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