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It's not about fear. It's about having long stretches of time to just think without distractions.

Another instance of confused language. One can not converse with a program because a conversation implies some notion of semantics and understanding. Software, represented as a bin…

His book "The Act of Creation" is also very good. Somewhat related to prison experiences, John Leray invented sheaves while in a prison camp: > Jean Leray (November 7, 1906–Novembe…

One can not be loyal to an entity that has no conception of what it means. Language like this is why people are constantly confused about where their loyalties should actually be. …

It's definitely in a gray area because the AI models are essentially compression engines that encode the code samples/data into the weights of the matrices that represent the ML mo…

This is the inevitable endgame of financialization. People think financial instruments have meaning when the reality is its just a bunch of numbers in databases and fluffy narrativ…

That's called socialism.

Do you know who Rodney Brooks is?

Google will eat itself: https://googlewilleatitself.com/ .

The marketing hype has overtaken reality. The current AI technology is not ready for real world deployment and it will not be ready for the foreseeable future: https://rodneybrooks…

Their next earnings report is going to be even worse and the one after that even worse than that and so on. They're in a death spiral.

> The infamous thought experiment, flawed as it is, does demonstrate one thing: physics alone can’t explain consciousness Neither can math by the way and by extension, computation.…

This is straight out of blade runner 2049.

> "It has improved my life," he says. "My thoughts are freed up from constantly being cognitively connected to a machine that I need to feed with energy and money. I think that the…

Facebook has been a zombie for a while now. Maybe the market has caught up. Their stock price didn't make any sense to me when it was high and it still doesn't make sense to me. Wi…

Then you must think it's undervalued so you should buy some FB.

There is definitely a lot of magical thinking involved but I wouldn't call that imagination.

It'll soon be worthless. VR is not a moat and it's unlikely Zuckerberg will manage to convince people that putting on a VR headset and hanging out in a virtual space is going to be…

Thanks, I like peanuts so this is very helpful. I've been fighting squirrels for them but if I can make money then that seems easier and less work than the squirrel fights.