For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough

When the world can’t stop talking, silence is mistaken for absence.

Here’s your monthly dose of treats, goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert

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1. Some videos I have released these past weeks:

   • Cynicism in 100 Seconds

   • Regret Minimization Framework in 100 Seconds

   • Hedonism in 100 Seconds

   • Nihilism in 100 Seconds

   • Taoism in 100 Seconds

   • Socratic Method in 100 Seconds

   • Occam’s Razor in 100 Seconds

   • How to ruin your 20s in 100 Seconds

   • Metaphysics in 100 Seconds

   • Ethics in 100 Seconds

   • Accelerationism in 100 Seconds

2. Why the tech industry needs more autism (2015)

3. The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

   “Any system that is not explicitly pro-Weird Nerd will turn anti-Weird Nerd pretty quickly.”

4. Puter - The Internet OS! Free, Open-Source, and Self-Hostable

5. The Stranger in the Mirror: Your Future Self

6. Ramanujan, Einstein, Tolstoy, Napoleon, Richard Muller, and Michael Jackson on God

7. Autism & the Internet will defeat the Monoculture

8. Remote Tribe Got Internet and Things Got Crazy

   

9. Google pays Apple $20bn for defaults 

10. In the beginning… was the command line

11. Like rocks, like water

12. Why I Quit Social Media and Spend 14 Hours a Day on Notes Instead

13. Shut up about Luxury Beliefs

14. How might we learn?

    If you could snap your fingers and drop yourself into a perfect learning environment, what’s your ideal?

    One way to start thinking about this question is to ask: what were the most rewarding high-growth periods of your life?

15. AI hallucinations

16. Face of ancient Australian ‘giga-goose’ revealed after fossil skull found

17. Do teachers spot AI? Evaluating the detectability of AI-generated texts among student essays

18. WWDC 2024 Recap From Apple Park

19. AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life’s molecules. DeepMind unveiled a model that can predict the structures of life's molecular building blocks like DNA, RNA - not just proteins. A big AI breakthrough for medical research, though it hasn't gotten much buzz.

20. New algo discovers language just by watching videos

21. Important Science, Philosophy & Alchemy

22. Looking for AI use-cases

23. Sam Altman says the research strategy that birthed ChatGPT is played out and future strides in artificial intelligence will require new ideas.

24. From “AI” to Probabilistic Automation: How Does Anthropomorphization of Technical Systems Descriptions Influence Trust? This paper explores how giving AI a friendly name, like a person's name, affects whether people believe what it tells them.

25. The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants

26. Markmap - markdown + mindmap

27. How I Found A 55 Year Old Bug In The First Lunar Lander Game

28. Map of forest sounds around the world.

29. To Understand Language is to Understand Generalization

30. Experimental observation of Earth’s rotation with quantum entanglement

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