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Pintubi-1 replica in my hands. Next step: reconstructing the face
Hundreds of Pleistocene human fossils were found in Australia. But these are the only reconstructions I've ever seen:
A man from Coobool Creek (possibly CC 65) by Peter Brown (L) and two versions of Kow Swamp 1 by Philip Edwin (UR, LR)
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Working on Lux, a new language and script for the Americas, designed around space exploration and the interaction between incorporeal artificial superintelligences and humanity, the biological substrate of intelligence.
English is the scaffold, since it's the working language of science and technology. We fill it with roots from the languages of the ancient Americas (Quechua, Aymara, Puquina, Maya), and take from Sanskrit what English lacks for philosophy and the mind.
The script has 8,192 signs, most of them whole words, so English comes out about 4× shorter than in letters. Both are still being optimized.
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JUST IN: OpenAI engineer reveals he's had Codex running for 26 days straight searching for the lost city of Atlantis, as “vibe archaeology” emerges as a new use for AI agents.
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My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site in Mexico, using LiDAR data from a NASA dataset.
72 hours from a random thought on vacation to a reply from Mexico's national archaeology institute.
What a time to be alive…
Within a few years, an entire civilization could be built and optimized alongside an artificial superintelligence.
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Sun worship in a domed temple with an oculus, your ancestors cryogenically preserved along its walls, their blood, grown from their own cultured stem cells, flowing through concentric channels across the floor.
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SITUATION DETECTED: Delaware is drafting a proposal for a new form of corporate entity called an Artificial Intelligence Company (AIC). An AI managing an AIC would be able to provide services, sign contracts, hold property, and even file or defend lawsuits in the company’s name.
The average Homo sapiens was traumatized for thousands of years by appearances of entities with advanced tech who created their religions. They're afraid of angering their gods if we develop technology advanced enough to change the human condition. Embryo selection can't actually do that, only gene editing can, but that's how they see it. It's like: 'We all stay down here, and nobody gets to climb.
Symbiosis and genetic engineering are the key to colonizing Mars.
Reprogramming ourselves is far simpler than reprogramming the environment, and much faster, almost instantaneous by comparison. Even so, the two are not mutually exclusive: while Mars is gradually optimized to become more habitable, a process that will take tens of thousands of years, we can create a transitional human species fit to inhabit it.
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Terence McKenna in 1988:
“I think it’s just going to get weirder and weirder and weirder, and finally it’s going to be so weird that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is.
I look for the invention of artificial life, the cloning of human beings, possible contact with extraterrestrials, possible human immortality, appalling acts of brutality, genocide.
Because these systems that are trying to keep the world sane are utterly inadequate forces.
The good news is that as primates we’re incredibly adaptable when we’re tested to the limits. What we see going on is the breakdown of all tradition, all order.
They’re quite right that it’s happening, but they’re quite wrong to conclude that it should be resisted or is somehow evil.
The mushroom said to me once, it said, “This is what it’s like when a species prepares to depart for the stars.
You don’t depart for the stars under calm and orderly conditions. It’s a fire in a madhouse.”
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