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Conversations about effective accelerationism

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only 27 billion parameters for discovery https://huggingface.co/vandijklab/C2S-Scale-Gemma-2-27B https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.14.648850v2

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Anybody ever feel like this? As a Sci Fi and Fantasy junky growing up I had pretty high expectations for the future. As an adult, it’s been more anticlimactic than I’d imagine. https://open.spotify.com/track/4yYxzEEW9uZwNfpKx3cNSH?si=2a338474a9124bee

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The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Chapter 10: The Grand Project Progress is a grand project for humanity: one with an illustrious past and a glorious future. And its heroes are the scientist, the inventor, and the founder https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/the-grand-project

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Flush with the grand success of reason and science to improve human life, the 20th century stumbled into some critical errors. The resulting crisis of optimism posed a mortal challenge to the idea of progress: https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/the-spirit-we-lost-part-2

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may we live in interesting times https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/discovering-new-solutions-to-century-old-problems-in-fluid-dynamics/

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I think the next couple of years will make sapient humanoids just as boring and everyday as robotaxis. crypto can be an accelerant through crowdsourcing many-to-concept. when do we see the Forrest Gumpbot cross the continent? which neighborhoods gain a prominence of "machines of loving grace"? what will schools fixate on, beyond more AI-based educational tooling? who knows, we'll see

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sometimes the most effective element is the right lever for the right fulcrum https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02093-8

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The 19th century enthusiastically celebrated inventive and industrial achievements: with parades and fireworks, in speeches and advertisements, in art and poetry, in World's Fairs. From Chapter 9 of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto: https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/the-spirit-we-lost-part-1

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Project Bob off to an intermittent start. https://x.com/andrewmccalip/status/1965090982246175176

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very excited for this hope Bob survives the high seas, pirates, and dragons https://x.com/andrewmccalip/status/1964821019648299018

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Isn’t this why so many of us went all in on crypto? We need more can’t be evil tech tech as we accelerate. Another reason crypto is vital.

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I used to think they were printing too much and productivity would never be able to catch up. I’m starting to suspect the opposite is the case.

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The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Chapter 8: The Unlimited Horizon, part 2 We are all poor by the standards of the future. But there is no bold, ambitious vision of the future in mainstream culture. Here is one, based on mastery over all aspects of nature https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/the-unlimited-horizon-part-2

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This gpt5 cancer patient story is why I don’t give a flying fck about job loss. These are fake problems. Dying of cancer is a real problem. When you’re there you just want help. You don’t give a fck about philosophy. When you or your loved ones are in trouble, you want help. Accelerate this tech all the way.

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A fly’s eye flickers at a thousand frames per second; to it, our lives are glacial.

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