The Singularity is not coming
Ro.bert
Hey there,
Robert here.Here’s your weekly dose of treats 💌Some things I thought were worth sharing this week!
Follow the white rabbit 🐇....🎶 Something to listen while reading
...Rapid-fire stuff I’ve been reading
The Singularity is not coming lol, no :(
Modern mindfulness meditation has lost its beating communal heart. In the modern view, practitioners tend to think of meditation as an autonomous project of self-help: through their own efforts, they try to foster beneficial states of mind. Socially conditioned in this way, Westerners enter into ‘lovingkindness meditation’ (metta) as a way of summoning up a sense of love for themselves and those they feel close to; then, for those they’re neutral towards; and, finally, for people they dislike.
The problem with love is deciding who’s doing the dishes; From a philosophical point of view, the idea of love as caring and sharing finds expression in two different theories. One, the ‘union theory’, says that love creates a melding of the people in love, to form a new entity, a ‘we’. Another, the ‘concern theory’, maintains that the people remain distinct, but says that love requires taking on the beloved person’s needs and interests as your own.
How You Will Die; Enter your sex, race, and age. Each dot represents one of your simulated lives, and as each year passes, more of your simulated selves pass away. Color corresponds to cause of death, and the bars on the right keep track of the cumulative percentages. By the end, you’re left with the chances that you will die of each cause.
Aligning superhuman AI with human behaviour: chess as a model system
From Chaos to Order: A Brief Cultural History of the Parking Lot
Nerd Insights 🐙
Retargeting will move into the physicalworld. Billboards track cell phones and show us ads as we move. Geofencing makes this more accurate.
With 98% open rates, SMS will become a popular channel.
Access to data services will become democratized. We’ll move from demo-based models (Acxiom) to self-serve models (Clearbit). (Via Samuel)
Biohacking Priorities: Order of priorities: self-quantification device, comprehensive blood panel, StrateGene, GI Effects Comprehensive Profile – then if you have money left, add NutrEval panel and DUTCH test – icing on the cake is the full microbiome analysis and telomere testing – Ben Greenfield
The army of Bitcoin Hodlers is growing and there will be a trigger point. “Once you have seen, you cannot unsee. Once you get it, there is no way back.
Facebook/Google = NSA/CIA: “I think it’s actually a mistake to see them as different threats. What Facebook or Google does on a fundamental level is to keep private records and information about your life which is also what the NSA and CIA does.
If you’ve missed Edward Snowden’s podcast with Joe Rogan, here are the notes I extracted out of it.
Bjarke Ingels proposes Mars simulation city for Dubai in race for space colonisation
Tweets for Thought
...on reasoning from first principles...
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