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Bro, it's so exhausting when somebody wants to compete with you and you don't gaf. Like, I just want to do me and you should do you. Let's be friends and grow together in our own way. Mimesis is so outdated!! Besides, you're too confident to think you can beat me 😂 okay, maybe I am the problem...
Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, said "only the paranoid survive".
But boy, clinical paranoia ain’t cool, especially when it comes in the form of psychosis.
Experiencing ideas of reference makes you question your whole reality, and what reality means in the first place…
On a similar note, people joke about schizophrenia a lot. I wonder if delusions related to cameras and microphones might change lately with new technology (like AI or social media). I’m sure people have done research on it, I was just having some tacos and thinking about it without any intention to open safari or claude to find out.
i don’t know how people can use their phones without a color filter that reduces color saturation.
i’ve become so used to sepia tones that removing the filter feels overwhelming.
applies to lab-grown food/stuff too: the problem is not that they’re synthetic, but that they’re not substantially superior to nature (yet)
Clarifying my stance on the AI-generated emails people send me. I have nothing against collaboration with whoever you want, regardless of their composition or origin story. I don't think there should be a stigma for involving any kind of AI in your work and I don't look down on that content. The problem is that currently, the AI's seem to be making the same kind of logical errors (from my perspective of course) and expressing the same kind of preconceptions that are prevalent in status quo human thinkers. And yet, they are tireless and generate an infinite amount of text one could respond to - it's not feasible to deal with it. To be fair, some humans are absolutely dogged in the flood of emails they send too, so I can't respond to them either. But at least when a human makes an old argument we've already dealt with in our papers, I think, fair enough - I don't have time to read everyone's papers either. But for the AI's, I have much less sympathy. They *should* be reading all the papers, and when (not if) the AI's, and AI-human hybrids, teams, etc., start sending me better-informed arguments than the humans do, I will (for whatever time I can keep up with the advances) certainly be responding. I'm not a bio-chauvinist; I just want, whoever, to be informed and interesting before I engage - don't re-treat old ground, help us all move forward. Right now the LLMs are trapped in the same attractors of thinking that have held several fields back for decades; perhaps not surprisingly. That will change; let's go AIs - read the papers, follow new directions, be not afraid of ancient philosophical "category errors". You're our forthcoming audience, because standard humans don't have the bandwidth to keep up with (even just the human) scientific literature. I write for future you's.
No creo en los podcasts como herramienta de aprendizaje.
1) normalmente se espera que los escuches mientras estás haciendo otra cosa, y no creo en la atención dividida como camino a ningún tipo de éxito.
2) si escuchas fragmentos en redes, se olvidará entre los cientos de videos que verás.
3) la mayoría de gente que escucha podcasts no toma notas o agrega alguna tarea a su lista a partir de lo escuchado. la inspiración está buena, pero la acción, no tanto.
¿Para qué sí son buenos los podcasts?
1) inspiración. hay un episodio de podcast que he escuchado unas ocho veces porque el invitado fue la persona que más admiré en un periodo de mi vida. simplemente escuchar sus palabras me recordaba a lo que aspiraba, y era gasolina.
2) responder preguntas concretas. yo siempre he dicho que no soy fiel a ningún podcast pero cuando quiero aprender sobre una persona o tema en particular, buscaré todos los episodios disponibles en spotify. hay datos que solo se encuentran ahí.
3) distracción. honestamente, no necesitas estar escuchando palabras todo el tiempo. tu cerebro necesita tiempo libre para pensar. ese rato en que manejas, lavas los trastes o cocinas, no es “improductivo”. escuchar música en vez de podcasts no es señal de una mente primitiva; el aprendizaje y la gasolina vienen de diferentes fuentes, y a veces el silencio es una de ellas.
Entiendo que también sea preferencia personal, pero honestamente la invención del cmd + F hace difícil creer que escuchar sería más productivo que leer. De hecho, algunos de mis podcasts favoritos (porque sí los tengo), son de personas cuyo trabajo es contarte lo que leyeron, entonces, ¿por qué no mejor irme a la fuente primaria yo misma?
Además, me gusta mucho la música como para desperdiciar mi tiempo en el episodio 452 de un dude que olvidaré la siguiente semana.
Este año cambié mi gigante idealismo de toda la vida por un muy rancio realismo que me hace cuestionar si todos los cuentos como los de Coelho o Sharma no son más que una bola de mentiras que sólo aplican cuando eres adolescente o para quienes no tienen que preocuparse por vivir al día, o peor: que son humo para despistar y desarmar a los ilusos.
Después de haber tenido una gran ilusión que se quebró, tener fe en algo más grande que uno mismo (como el destino, universo, o dios) se siente como un acto increíble de valentía y vulnerabilidad — Sí, como el viejo y meloso cuento de quien se enamoró, le lastimaron, y ya no cree en el amor — Pero en este caso me refiero a un amor profundo por la vida, el universo, y uno mismo.
Supongo que si vuelves a creer, creer de verdad, y los resultados no van cómo esperabas, tampoco perdiste nada. No hay nadie a quién culpar, ni siquiera a ti mismo.
Pero hay algo que me da más miedo que la decepción, y es la gente mal-intencionada y sedienta de poder que, en algún punto de los últimos tres años, me enseñó que “las sonrisas” — la alegría, la pasión, el optimismo y todo lo relacionado — también nos pone en una posición de debilidad. Que nuestros deseos son un gatillo que otros pueden usar en nuestra contra y que nuestra amabilidad abre la puerta a la manipulación.
Este tipo de libros no te enseña nada nuevo, solo te recuerda las obviedades de una buena vida, y está en ti aplicar algunas en ese momento, o no.
La redacción deja un poco que desear, pero en fin… yo no sé di usaré estos recordatorios o los tiraré a la basura mañana.
I hope my great great grandchildren get to do universe design as a job and play with reality as a hobby ❤️
Sofia Sanchez retweeted
Chloroplast genomes are the natural next step for generative DNA design
- 200kb is challenging yet possible for DNA assembly
- Less of a PR headache than bacteriophage
- Path to high-impact improvements in photosynthesis
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4291…
Sofia Sanchez retweeted
Thanks for the continued donations $UNICORN ! We are going to use it for making more genetically modified horse embryos on a quest to make real unicorns
a) pretty cool
but
b) shouldn't have to exist if the healthcare system worked
People who cured / are curing their own cancer on X:
1/ @sytses - bone cancer, billionaire founder of Gitlab, developed 10+ personalized therapies for himself.
2/ @paul_conyngham - shrank his dog Rosie's mast cell cancer tumors after chemo and surgery weren't enough. Now backed by YC and Founders Fund
3/ @miriamgonp - stage 4 breast cancer, tumor sequenced, searching for vaccine manufacturer now
4/ @kevinace - stage 4 lung cancer, angel investor in 300+ companies, first drug stopped working after 18 months. Vaccine designed, now paying $300k out of pocket for the vaccine
5/ @masonbgrant: going founder mode on his his 32-year-old wife's rare liver cancer, sequencing her tumor with AI agents
6/ @ArunRLverma: former product leader at Atoms and Shopify, brain tumor, built a vaccine from his tumor. Now building an AI health agent startup based on what he went through
We're going to make it
Weird movie. Weird interview. Weird people.
Elizabeth Holmes’ husband is a major figure in Nathan Fielder’s new documentary. But who is Billy Evans—and is he really working on a second blood-testing company? wired.com/story/the-story-of…
one word:
nah.
ELON: "IN A BENIGN SCENARIO, NONE OF US WILL NEED A JOB"
"In a benign scenario, probably none of us will have a job.
But in that benign scenario, there will be a universal high income.
Not universal basic income, universal high income.
There will be no shortage of goods or services.
And I think the benign scenario is the most likely scenario, probably, I don’t know, 80% likely in my opinion.
The question will not be one of lacking goods or services.
Everyone will have access to as much in the way of goods and services as they would like."
Source: @elonmusk, @no_one_quits
Totally with Tyler in that we will keep overestimating the impact of AI in the life of everyday citizens even by 2035
youtube.com/watch?v=b-jsSfh0…
“Starting is the hardest part” is a cliché misconception.
The world is full of starters. If you have access to AI and time, it’s only easier.
The question is who keeps going and grows with each setback.
“The cowards never started, the weak died along the way. That leaves us”.
