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Important life lesson: don't confuse technical virtuosity with intellectual depth.

"Everyone talks about how if you went back in time, some tiny change could make everything different now, but no one talks about how some tiny change now could make everything different in the future." — 14 yo

The 1875 Samuel Benner cycle. I have built several ChatGPT SuperPrompts to track the confirmations of Benner and the results have been quite robust. https://t.co/eXWdkaYmBY

working theory: a 2-year, full-time startup incubator program that competes with grad school / an MBA would be very popular

The solution to Wikipedia censorship is to move away from humans curating content on the site, and have an AI do the job (sourcing content from the internet and citing them), and also move away from static articles to dynamic personalized ones. That’s https://t.co/2nWfr8KQ0j. https://t.co/Ni62GjxjEw

love that everyone’s rock bottom is registering for a data analytics course https://t.co/MFXezRVBuk

We are excited to announce "Open Empathic," our successor to Open Assistant. Our goal: Creating truly empathic, emotionally intelligent AI assistants within the next 24 months — with your help! https://t.co/HiMlVLD0AN

We live in a VUCA world. In his book Leaders Make the Future, futurist Bob Johansen provides counterpoints to each that leaders can use: - Volatility yields to Vision - Uncertainty yields to Understanding - Complexity yields to Clarity - Ambiguity yields to Agility https://t.co/Y9yabbt7u6

Robotics is still very far from being able to do anything close to this. Excellent goal oriented long term planning, agility and replanning when necessary. https://t.co/tOtKslZaOf

When people self-censor they don’t just not speak, but they increasingly censor their thoughts becoming dumber in the process.

@ricosync @id_fm Reddit https://t.co/nC3Yp9bE5O

Tuition-free, tutor-free: Decoding Singapore’s contrarian coding school 👇 Launched in Sept, 42 Singapore gives its 190 students a peer-to-peer learning environment with no mentors. Many participants don’t have previous coding experience and include psychologists, artists, etc. https://t.co/Kj7wwcsj2H

LinkedIn is full of viral “AI cheat sheets” that contain no useful information and tons of mistakes, randomly organized with bad clip art It is a growing problem with algorithmic platforms that financially reward likes (as Twitter now does). The incentive is for popular nonsense https://t.co/5iImllQjLy

I'm an English professor and a few years back I taught a course on Utopias and Dystopias. Below is our reading list. If some of the selections seem strange, we were also discussing social organization (how do some social structures thrive and some collapse?) and Foucault’s… https://t.co/K4Itf6wkv6

X Article: https://t.co/hOMsdj8wnI

Taiwan is basically Arrakis. It's the sole source of the single most important commodity for our civilization, that if produced in enough quantities can perform miracles, enable space travel, solve longevity, birth gods. Both Chips and Spice come from sand. Both are produced… https://t.co/Yc9hcYoDkH

The Rubens tube, also known as a standing wave flame tube, is a physics apparatus that visually illustrates the connection between sound waves and sound pressure Flames along the tube's perforations respond to these pressure variations https://t.co/l6DAlm4UXT

BREAKING: @UCBerkeley announces partnership with @NASA to build the Berkeley Space Center, a 36-acre site in Silicon Valley that will house companies, labs and students working to generate futuristic innovations in aviation and space exploration. https://t.co/Q4ccRNzbmb

THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1 “You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” — Walker Percy “Our species is 300,000 years old. For the…

Which kind of AGI parent are you? https://t.co/soqIljWcce

This incredibly sincere white guy trying Indian food for the very first time and having his mind blown is so wholesome https://t.co/ChDld0D1I0

this is the most important essay you can read today https://t.co/W10AQX2DzF

Did you know? Puffins are excellent swimmers, and use their wings to essentially 'fly' underwater while using their feet to control direction. https://t.co/nNaIEQ8dRj

X should implement a feature called "On This Day." It would rewind the timeline to any given day since Twitter's founding to let you feel the pulse of the moment. A crucial tool for modern historians.

https://t.co/NrryWlAZAg allows you to upload any academic paper, highlight a text which results confusing to you and get a clear explanation. Bonus: you can ask follow up questions if you need a more in-depth answers https://t.co/05W5CXh8Gz

Be an Open Source Absolutist! It is hard to overstate how much value Open Source Software has added to the world, and how broadly empowering it is. Operating systems, development tools, core libraries, and critical applications – a great many of the software tools used by the…

Starting today, we’re giving free access to Replit AI. Now anyone can use Replit AI to debug, autocomplete, and turn natural language into code with one-click. Get started by creating a free Replit account. https://t.co/E5QgHUSLWN

Yesterday demonstrated why turning Twitter into X has changed everything. If you don't believe me, look at how the media covered yesterday. The worldview shared by most elites no longer has a monopoly over what we see with our own eyes. That alone is worth $44 billion.

If you are a teacher who is confident that AI does a bad job on your assignments based on a few very "ChatGPT" answers, I'll bet that you are only catching the folks bad at prompting. When I had my students "cheat," after a few prompts you couldn't tell https://t.co/MFvKkTr6Rw

Q: Why is it easier to start a hard company than an easy company? In the clip below, Sam Altman tells the class at Stanford: “It’s easier to start a hard company than an easy company. Most people—especially young people—want to pick something that doesn’t sound too ambitious.… https://t.co/NCFCIDgN9L