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“*We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. All you have is what you are, and what you give.*“ ~ Ursula LeGuin
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Excellent sentences: "My feeling is that ‘artificial intelligence’ is a public-relations name that obscures what’s really going on. It’s artificial for sure. But as for intelligence — the term is so broad that you immediately get lost in it. So AI is a poor name. If it was called ‘extremely rapid computation’, or ‘assisted data analysis’ or ‘cognitive prosthesis’ then that would de-emphasize the magical portions of it. You would be talking about what to do with it, not about making up a human mind or a consciousness." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04116-4
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I’m going to go out on a limb and say musk for speaker is underpriced right now Bet on the weird
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“We’re no longer changing the shape of the physical world or even of society, as it manifests itself in the physical world. We’re altering internal states, transforming the invisible self. Not surprisingly, when you step back and take a broad view, it looks like stagnation — it looks like nothing is changing very much. That’s particularly true when you compare what’s happening today with what happened a hundred years ago, when our focus on Technologies of Prosperity was peaking and our focus on Technologies of Leisure was also rapidly increasing, bringing a highly visible transformation of the world. If the current state of progress disappoints you, don’t blame innovation. Blame your own self-involved self.” https://www.newcartographies.com/p/the-arc-of-innovation-bends-toward
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But where is the Dept of numbers? Room q
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Anyone have a rec for a nice graphic summarizing the frontier development phases? Thinking of something riffing on like the gold rush and then also the various pioneer to town archetypes
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Orion Tate stepped off the dilapidated mag-rail into the heart of Poliscity, a sprawling metropolis where towering glass structures clashed with crumbling public buildings from a bygone era. Poliscity was the administrative heart of the New Republic Territories, its vast municipal bureaucracy infamous for being as labyrinthine as it was inert. Orion had been recruited for a mission that no one else dared to take: bringing technology and transparency to the Civic Core. https://jotpy.notion.site/The-Chronicles-of-Orion-Tate-Civic-Tech-160d44b8cdc88028aa21f73a9a2b06a4?pvs=4
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Wordle 1,277 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟨🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Nice daily coffee break
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Ok one funny thing llms and how ppl say it’s uniquely mysterious in its workings is like how well does a human mind really understand google search? I mean sure I’ve read pagerank and done the relevant maths but what does understanding really mean in terms of things at that scale of information
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/us/a-constitutional-convention-some-democrats-fear-its-coming.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Buckle up!!!
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🤦‍♂️Are adults forgetting how to read? https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/12/10/are-adults-forgetting-how-to-read from The Economist
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@jean0201.eth what got you interested in web3 out of curiosity?
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The Meme Lords are rallying, with the DOGE Techno King and his digital court scheming their next big gambit. The internet's good citizens face a choice: cheer from the sidelines or chart a better path. Let's talk CATs, not DOGE. https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/introducing-the-california-transformation-cat-principles-for-moar-efficient,-effective-and-imaginative-government-operations-v01
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man I can't wait for tomorrow muahahahahahaha (not actually a surprise) too much doge
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Where is the best place on warpcast for cat memes?
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What are the all time greatest caturday memes? Asking for a fren
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🤯🤯🤯
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"So, to sum up, I think the best way to onboard the next billion to crypto is to give them something they really want but can’t do elsewhere." I really want to play games across everything and have some sort of karmic currency that's redeamable https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/karmic-currency-and-the-future-of-government-operations-varun-adibhatla-and-patrick-atwater-refactor-camp-2018/97432281#2
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Nice piece :) also this thread from Benedict Evans is well worth absorbing
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A decade ago, in a city far, far away, my co-founder insisted that I watch A Ted Talk, sharing lessons that have stuck with me and that offer a few tools for going beyond our unending uncivil war https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/beyond-americas-uncivil-war
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