WorldCoin dude loses his gig leading world’s most invogue corporation. sama fired?! Did not see that one coming. https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition

MSFT should relaunch clippy powered by GPT-4 and unironically do marketing campaigns lionising a world where everyone has unlimited paperclips all working for their interests. But they got no style. View quoted note →

I see a Russian RAAS (ransomware-as-a-service) cybercrime group has filed an SEC complaint against one of their victims for failing to publicly disclose a data breach. One of the things I’m most worried about for later part of 21st century, isn’t climate change or AI, or WW3, it’s that organised crime is the real exponential threat. The Cartels are operating intercontinental submarines, and Russian cybercriminals are co-opting federal agencies. Collective blackmail by enemy states is the basis of mutually assured destruction, but not sure how collective blackmail will pan out with transnational criminals? How do you cope with a “we will release our virus” type of blackmail, if the attack surface is as small as a crime group? Not good.

Seems the TikTok algorithm is poisonous after all. How to unwrap that tentacle in a democratic system? Obsolescence.

It’s worth remembering that you, yourself and everyone you know and see on TV is little more than a blob of cells burning sugar in a bone jar, pootling around a little spherical garden and counting down our 80 ish summers as we go. No amount of money can buy you a ticket out, and even if it could, you would be mad to leave. The only thing you really own, the only thing universe has really gifted to you, is some time.

The military history of the land that is Israel is crazy reading. Over the course of history, it has been conquered and ruled by 13 different military powers. It has changed hands 19 times due to violent military conquests, once by violent revolution and once by legal declaration.

Imagine having 3.8 million square miles of land at your disposal, including 1 million square miles of lumber forest AND also having a housing crisis. At some point responsibility falls on the population for i). Voting for and ii). Tolerating that kind of thing. Have some self respect.

Crazy how GPT made so many people simultaneously think intelligence is linear and that anything 30 IQ points smarter than Magnus Carlson will be able to have sex with the sun. More than two steps past their own experience and people have no grip whatsoever on reality.

“Can she cook?” Is level 9000 parental advice.

Seems kinda risky to start shooting a movie next year, as I’m pretty sure AI will be generating very good multi modal content on demand, within a year or two. The content collapse of everything other than live sport is gonna be the big story of 2025. Netflix, Disney, Paramount, HBO these guys are all dead. Only a handful of profitable quarters left. Once we have multi modal content creating AI on device, the platforms are dead too and with them your old social graph. Content is going to zero, it will be infinitesimalised by AI, but preservation of your connections will become everything. This is why nostr is so important. 🔮

Do people widely understand that words mean different things within different domains of study? For example… In philosophical context anti- means the opposition to an idea’s validity, eg anti-nuclear. But in physical science it means the inverse of something and not that the thing is wrong. eg anti-neutrons. These word meaning differences in the English language are many, and often very subtle but can lead to enormous fake disagreement in the wild. People are often in agreement but interpreting one another’s words differently and wnd up fighting disputes that simply don’t exist. A useful thing to remember, especially at home.

The average human currently consumes one septillionth of the Sun’s output. Some of Earth’s eight billion people think this is too much. Whereas I think we are living in chapter one.

The entire global bond market is dominated by the decisions of a dozen men who sign off the major capital flows across asset types for giant AUM funds, nobody in the general public really knows who these people are. But they all know each other, they talk weekly/monthly, and the destination of the global economy, including your life savings and job security is basically priced off the vibe in their Clash of Clans clan chat.

Fact of the Day: In many countries, Road Traffic Accidents save more lives than they take, once you account for organ donors. Reality be like that sometimes.