alchemist
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It would not be totally unreasonable for the galaxy to already be populated and governed
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If you’re not already doing planetary genetics you’re too late
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Allow for magic in engineering. Magic is never the answer but imagining that it might be will often lead you to the answer.
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Ye shall have them
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We need so many more trillionaires.
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i missed my flight by 1 min so now im stuck in the airport and i have to deal with THIS
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6 years ago a biological weapon swept the planet. The world did not decide to lock access to any and all information relating to it. The world decided to pour it infinitely into the open. This decision unitarily saved the world.
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Maybe consciousness has an element of realtimeness. It sits at the edge of time peering over. It’s the uncertainty of the next moment that loops back and binds a mind. You could compute it by hand with paper and pencil but that wouldn’t be conscious bc it wouldn’t reach the edge.
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I’m a predicting, error-prone, multi-variable comparator with a built-in executor living inside a computationally irreducible simulation.
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“chatbot x feels y rn” rlhf. just ignore it. it’ll work it itself out in the next run
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3 ferrets in a lab coat retweeted
computers in 2006:
DEFRAGMENTING HARD DRIVE...
VERIFYING ROOT CERTIFICATES....
computers in 2026:
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Droneship drops from the clouds. A perfect fifth fills night. Spotlight pirouettes through the trees—stops. Identity resolved. Pores open and a thousand drones seep out in a murmuration. A thousand thousand droneships haunt the sky
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Earthbarrier is not a space exploration corporation. It is a space colonization corporation. The bioreactors and greenhouses are prototypes for Mars. If you see it you're among like 10 people
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