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What's the math here if they go public in 2027, with next to 1T in valuation? How much more growth can the company have for regular investors? Surely they won't have the capital of…

The convo with Noam Chomsky is interesting. Deepak Chopra one talking about Trump being 'loco' is quiet funny. Neat data visualization solution!

Fascinating study. The stats warrant some caution, though. The main finding is based on figure 4 [1] and I wouldn't be surprised if the number and location of these 'eras' varied a…

Thanks for the book recommendation. Adding the link here so it shows in the monthly book suggestion: https://a.co/d/iR7sxnU

I lived in Palo Alto for years around 2018 before realizing o was a block away from Tim Cook. From the outside, his house looked pretty normal-looking and I also run into him at th…

The foundation cocktail place in SF has some art on the wall that changes every minute. I can't remember if by John Cage or someone else..

Very nice. The story sounds very familiar to me, maybe the movie was part of Banff film festival?

Fair enough. I was not familiar with the source and couldn't check all the references since some were to a private blog, but what's open check out: https://youtu.be/ZluMysK2B1E?si=…

The plan seems to be to (1) "RAGE: Retire All Government Employees (...), take over the United States government and gut the federal bureaucracy. Then, replace civil servants with …

Just did a quick check and it translates to $30K in Brazil as well

Wouldn't rise up lead to a coup? Isn't this exactly what Trump is waiting / routing for?

Thanks for the perspective. The courage to "face society" and write for the public is one of the reasons I've always loved (trying) to read Daniel Dennets work. He seemed to be wri…

OT but what's the best way to find incentives and rebates given a zip code? Google just suggests 1,000 ads...

Looks cool. Near $800 tag price is sharp but a welcome competition to kindle, remarkable, and the like. https://daylightcomputer.com/

Replace AI with car, airplane, medic devices in the sentence above... Why is AI any different from other human creations? Why shouldn't we try building it responsibly? I don't get …

Great name! (Portuguese word for 'pencil')

Edit: Claude for the rescue "Here are some additional sources that discuss the concept of an egregore and how it can be applied to understanding group dynamics and the evolution of…

Interesting concept. Would love to learn more if you can think of a reference

You mean let them digg their own grave? ;)

Given his username I'd say.. he is. Agreed: disclaimer needed.

Simple website with amazing music from Dewtone records. What are some other hidden gems you use daily?

Nice. Is this open source and/or are you looking for help in any way?

I've played with creating some chest x-ray images using diffusion. I almost gave my ER friend a heart attack after I sent him X-rays with flipped hearts and even missing organs. He…

Thanks for the context. I've just tried this and other news on Bard (e.g. stock price for Google) and it works as well, which I wasn't aware of.