There is a beautiful thing called unilateral action.
I believe most employers mostly don’t care about conformity as such.
The inner circle stuff is only true of elite schools AFAIK. You can outcompete the rest of the universities
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University education can be made free pretty cheaply.
The cost at scale is in the credentials- you need to make tests, test students, and check those tests.
The classes can be filmed once, and updated every few years if necessary. Each course can have a forum board for discussion and meeting up for studying in groups.
See course credentials for things like AWS.
This implies that we should stop life from developing independently, and that if contact is made with aliens then the human making contact and any environment that’s been in chain of proximity should be spaced
Start small, once you have an attractive umbrella working for a few projects you can take in the rest of the US, the the world
In my work I aggregate multiple other systems’ work as well as doing my own.
I think a similar approach may be useful. Create standardized outputs each project has to send to the overarching org, allow each to develop their own capabilities and to a degree how what is required to make those outputs meaningfully reflect on the capabilities and R&D of the project.
This will lay the ground to self-regulate, keeps most of the power with the org (assuming it is itself good at actual research and creation) conditional on the org playing nice and being upstanding with the contributing members, and without limiting any project before it is necessary.
DOGE.
This is an opportunity to work with the levers of real power. If there are 5 people here who work on this for two years, that’s an in with Senators, Congressman, bureaucrats and possibly Musk.
Just showing up and making connections while doing hard work is the most efficient way to get power right now, in the time before AI gets dangerous and power will be very relevant.
I do not believe that this should be taken as an opportunity to evangelize. People, not ideology.
This seems like something worth funding if someone would like to but can’t afford it.
The first issue seems minor—even if true, a 40 year old man could have a new arm by 60
What happened to regrowing limbs? From what little I understand, with pluripotent stem cells we could do a lot, except cancer.
Why don’t we use stem cells instead of drilling for cavities? While there are a few types of tissue, tumors are fairly rare in teeth, likely due to minimal blood flow.
Why aren’t research companies made in Africa/Middle East/China for human research- cut out most of the bureaucracy and find out fast if something works, if it does set up a company in a 1st world country to go through the steps?
Something like iterative/cliff, with fast and slow expressing time scales
Can you sort the poll options by popularity?
Iterative/Sudden
I can only describe the Product, not the tech. The idea would be to plug in a bigger working memory in the area of the brain currently holding working memory. This is the piece I think matters most
On reflection something like wolfram alpha should be enough for calculations, and a well indexed reservoir of knowledge with an LLM pulling up relevant links with summaries should be good enough for the rest
Inside the super organism you are correct, but the genome is influenced by outside forces as whole over the ages—and any place where this breaks down for long enough you eventually get two species instead of one.
Therefore outside groups can treat the species as a super organism in general, the individual members must be dealt with individually when there is previous loyalty to another member of the other species.
For example, an Englishman and his dog vs an eskimo and his dog. The two humans may be against each other, the dogs may be against each other, but the opposite human/dog interactions would be standard if they weren’t already attached to other in-species members.
This gives the bones of a proper theoretical foundation on the moral duties between members of different species.
For example, this would back the intuition of eating dog to be worse than eating a bear or octupus, regardless of intelligence, and of killing rats out of hand
They’d not identical. First, they have a different status, much the same as citizens and aliens have different rights. Second, different species of animals have different relationships with humanity: Dogs are bred to be symbiotic companions Cats are parasites if allowed, pest control if tolerated Rats are disease vector scavengers Chickens are livestock—they lay infertile eggs for human consumption!
I’m not sure how well curated and indexed most information is.
Working memory allows for looking at the whole picture at once better with the full might of human intelligence (which is better at many things than LLMs), while removing frictions that come from delays and effort expended in search for data and making calculations.
Of course we have smart people together now, but getting multiple 7+SD people together would have many further benefits beyond having them work solo.
We probably have at least a generation (we’re probably going to slow down before we hit SAGI due to the data wall, limited production of new compute, and regulation).
The focus should be on moving quickly to get a group ecliping current human capabilities ASAP, not on going much further
The idea of inertia is excellent, extending the idea of momentum far further (and naturally inspiring thoughts on mass, velocity, etc)
Devops Mentality is correct:
Friction is a big deal.
Being able to change code and deploy immediately (or in a few minutes) matters immensely.
This might just be feedback loops at an extreme, but I believe it’s something more.
The benefit of going from 20wpm to 40wpm was not ×2 to my writing and experience, it was more like ×8. I fully intend to reach 60wpm.
It was closer to a ×2 to my developing experience, which is interesting as most of software development isn’t the actual typing. Another anecdote is that the best programmers I know all have 60+wpm (there was one react front end guy who was good, but mostly at design).
Reducing friction is underrated, even if friction is only 10% of a job (typing during coding), improving that friction substantially matters more than 10%.
This may have to do with flow, concentration or enjoyment
So unbundle it?