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E882: TWiST Live! OpenAI Co-founder & CTO Greg Brockman on our rapid acceleration toward artificial general intelligence: shares achievements in deep learning, the death of Moore’s Law (300,000x compute increase), & the risks of malice, competition & unintended consequences as OpenAI races to build AGI that benefits humanity

Exact Same Thing

“That’s a total trip!” — William Von Hippel

The video of Joe Rogan trying very hard to keep a straight face while he’s explaining the “Stoned Ape” theory is also a riot!

http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/william-von-hippel

What’s new in Baltimore?

… besides the WordPress Planet feed… 24:25 (entire Q&A 22:35-27:30)

… the fact that we spend a lot of money on Facebook … 26:50

Maria, representing Spanish Harlem…

… the streets are getting hotter <3

I formulate infinity
Interstitial commercials.

What is social media?

52:10

Dvorak

“Social media is a construct using the internet to interconnect people in groups, forums or even individually so they can interact without being anywhere near each other.”

55:30

How would you define social media for this committee and more importantly for the American people?

Sandberg

“Social media enables…[Read more]

Sock it to me, just a little bit

physically being there is very retro (Joe Rogan, #1021 Russell Brand, 1:32:45)

http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/russell-brand

NEWS FLASH: Google cannot be regulated (LOL)

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/28/technology/donald-trump-google-rigged/index.html

Almost all my websites are membership-based community sites, ever since I first developed the concept about a decade ago. It’s nice to see that the idea is now beginning to catch on in the wider news / journalism industry. Note, however, that “thecorrespondent” is a brand name and not an English word (nor a word in any language as far as I know)…[Read more]

Joe Rogan, quoting Sam Harris podcast with “guest” (episode 1156, 1:48:38):

We’re at this strange time in history where the news is different depending on what channel you watch.

This is an excellent description of the transition from retard media to rational media (which I first delineated in an article called “The Wisdom of the Language”,…[Read more]

LIFE: A temporary fontier + Yet another 4-letter word

Let me get to the point, I’m sick + tire of 4-letter words. I wanna moveon. I’m gonna 4-words letter now. I bet letters never saw octothorp coming.

Interrobang

That said, I’d say most of us would never have imagined we might ever see the final frontier…[Read more]

Another Kind of Big Bang — Many Kinds of Broken

One especially interesting thing about this movie is how relationships overlap — this is not just about ONE relationship between TWO people, but rather about many different relationships among several different groups.

Another fascinating thing is how it raises questions about the roles…[Read more]

Crash Course is a strange animal 😯

Wikipedia calls it a YouTube Channel 😐

But it apparently also ISN’T a YT channel — it’s https://thecrashcourse.com

You can follow the “Downloads” link to get all the videos (except the “preview” video above) from tumblr.com

So is it a tumblr channel?…[Read more]

The world is…
Everything with you.
Nothing without you.

A typical “zero marginal cost” information product: