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Wild weekend 😅

This is one of the major theories, yes. I'm weirdly skeptical of it. But that might only be because I'm too romantic about how the human behavioral utility function in our genetics works.

Yes 👽

That was Enrico Fermi's question!

It's a very abstract problem. Because we have only one empirical datapoint. Which is our own existence. You can't prove a negative about the existence of other intelligent civilizations, their time horizons for emergence, yet unknown constraints on interstellar travel, etc.

At the end of the day, Drake's equation sort of bootstraps from

The Law of Big Numbers and then goes from there. So it's a fundamentally statistical argument for which we have no empirical ground for nominator and denominator in the function. Well, we know the nominator is a minimum value of 1, because we exist.

we already outsource thinking

antibiotics are already largely failing

Yeah, almost all of our problems to some extent are problems of our collective making. There's certain things we cannot be said to hold collective accountability for as species. We don't control the weather. We don't control the movement of plate tectonics. We cannot control whether some celestial event such as a massive asteroid impacts renders the planet uninhabitable -- although our technological capacity for planetary defense is advancing.

But everything we create introduces problems. Even the simple invention of software. It created the problem of programming errors -- which today could have civilization-scale consequences and has made cybersecurity such an important problem.

I could be wrong of course, but I'm not sure we could have had an alternate history where we reached the levels of prosperity we have, and avoided the emergence of system-dependent problems, and the compounding of systemic risks that propagate through the interplay of these systems.

I think there's reason to believe that this universal reality can be found in the second law of thermodynamics itself.

I think the other things potentially extinguish humanity faster but what you’ve articulated is right in there at the top of the list.

If we can’t recognize, as a species, that our simplistic models don’t have sufficient explanatory and predictive power and that we must grapple with complexity then we’ll just continue tearing each other apart. We’ll continue to tribe up and battle it out.

Def want one of those backpack helis...😆

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setting up #Nostrica open source stage 🤙

Don't give me too much credit. I'm cribbing heavily from Hobbes and Locke right now.

hubs made me an NFC card that opens up my nostr profile 🥹 #[0]​

I hope the unraveling means the damage is self-limiting.

I think the grand irony of the entire enterprise of Musk's is that he has become the mind virus. He's not actually the one fighting it. Sad way to bookend one of the greatest entrepreneurial careers in human history.

Just another aesthetic photograph from Anna I guess 😁🫡

Went to Twitter for a little while today, saw a police truck running over like 15 people.

that was fun. #FacesOfDeath

Midjourney vibes. Maybe you are bot after all 😂

This weekend's reading for me, is going to be going deep into the ethics of cognitive liberty, AI, and neural interfaces. Quite a bit of interesting stuff going on this space, and excited to get up to speed on it. My instinct is there's serious dangers ahead for us to be thinking about as a society.