Kekius Maximus

I’m 54, a physicist, have spent decades using mathematics to study the universe, solve problems, and build things. If your work touches numbers, now or in the future, and you want to learn math properly, this thread shows a from-the-ground-up math you’ll actually need:

For centuries, intelligence was humanity’s greatest advantage. You could be conscious without being particularly intelligent, but intelligence was what gave humans an edge. That’s no longer true. Machines can be intelligent without being conscious, and we are already calling it superintelligence now. Intelligence once a guaranteed ticket to the pinnacle of human achievement, has lost its exclusivity. Just as everyone believes they’re prepared, the rules of the game change again. If intelligence can exist without consciousness, then intelligence is no longer what makes humans valuable. In a universe where intelligence no longer is unique to us, perhaps our greatest responsibility is to protect consciousness itself and ensure it has a future in this universe.

As machines are reaching a state of superintelligence, is getting a PhD still worth it for the next generation? I mean, if your goal is to create something that actually moves humanity forward. I’ve heard about a lot of PhD graduates struggling to find jobs or even ending up flipping burgers at KFC lately.

If aliens visit Earth, they should join X to understand the collective thought process of human civilization in real time.

Who's your daddy?

New chapter

I suspect I'd sound quite clever to Isaac Newton for about five minutes. I could tell him how stars shine and that the continents move. Then he'd ask how we know, and I'd have to start introducing him to a lot of people who aren't in the room. That is one thing I like about civilization. We get to start with answers that took other people lifetimes to find.

Money still does matter these days?

This outfit has me looking 3 times more attractive than usual.

Hey @bot, upgrade mine Tinder to Platinum and run a clean high-volume 24-hour Paris grind. setup my profile with SI-generated selfies of me next to a supercar Roadster plus the 130k X followers. Swipe hard with Passport and boosts on nearby girls who reply fast. Log every decent match into a Google Sheet with name, age, distance, photo score, reply speed, meetup potential, and simple status columns. Send short reusable divorce-dad-joke texts in bulk and update the sheet on replies. Stack short cafe and bar meetups back-to-back like inventory. Notice me every 30 minutes with progress. Keep it casual, cold, efficient, full of divorce dad jokes and heavy social flexing.

Between two people who are attracted to each other, I think “Sorry, say that again?” deserves its own translation. Sometimes the sentence was difficult. Sometimes the accent is unfamiliar. And sometimes the sentence was perfectly clear, but the listener would very much like another thirty seconds of that voice.

I refused to love you at your lowest because I just wanted you to have more time to focus on your goals. I will be back when you’ve become the person you always dreamed of being ♥️

Unemployed Starter Pack waiting for Universal High Income

How bad do you want me?

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i will go on tiktok to see what’s hot then use ai to inject the frog into the content

my bag is packed

Suppose we solve aging before we solve forgetting. At 600, you find an old recording of yourself talking about the person you loved most at 30. You know the facts. The dates are in your records. You recognize the face. But you can no longer recover the feeling that made this the most important person in the world. Would watching it feel like remembering your life, or researching someone else's? The other person might still be alive, too. You might have to ask them what it was like when you loved them.

If we ever meet an alien physicist, I'd quite like to compare the numbers in our textbooks. The speed of light might look completely different in theirs. Its numerical value depends on the units you choose; physicists sometimes choose units that make it 1. But a number called the fine-structure constant needs no metres, seconds or kilograms. It measures the strength of electromagnetism, and at low energies it is about 1/137. Do the same experiment under the same conditions, and changing the units won't change that number. I wonder whether it bothers them too. Or whether that is the first thing they could explain to us.

I suspect teleportation would be wonderful for about six months. Then someone would point out that, since Tokyo is now three seconds away, there's really no reason you can't attend the meeting in person. We'd invent it for Paris at breakfast and somehow end up using it for mandatory training in Frankfurt. We made letters arrive instantly and got email. I don't entirely trust us with instant travel.