OK, this hits different. I think human-human relationships are in deep trouble. Using this two way audio conversation interaction, I can cognitively multiplex and it somehow feels natural when I do it verbally. This is a very new experience.

Seeing the multitude of drones it seems clear that wars are now fought by autonomous machines, meanwhile AI continues to advance. Is Sci-Fi merely predictive, or is it actually instructive?

255 photon quantum computer solves boson sampling problem in 1 millionth of a second. That’s 10^20 times faster than contemporary supercomputers. Quantum computers are essentially ASIC machines, they can solve 1 specific task instantly. They are not general machines like we are used to. Maybe we could complete the room temp superconductor search with a purpose built quantum machine? A journalist said…

The Quantum Insider

China's Photonic JiuZhang Series Sets (Yet Another) Speed Record

The JiuZhang quantum computer series reportedly solved a complex mathematical problem in a mere millionth of a second.

If I said large parts of the West are stuck in a “moral stupor” does that term instantly ring true with anyone?

Just comparing iOS clients and Primal seems to be a lot smoother and slicker than Damus now. Does anyone else get lots of scrolling glitches when using Damus? Or is it just me? It never used to be this bad.

Rural kids move up the income spectrum faster than urban kids. 21st Century cities are just bad.

What do the following people have in common? Philip H. Knight Delbert W. Yocam Mike Markkula Arthur Rock John Sculley Peter O. Crisp

I feel like this used to be a lot smoother? Whats the point of caching a lot of the feed if you still pull during scrolling? Pulling notes during scrolling breaks the illusion. @jb55

23:15 this is moonlight.

I can’t tell if this is Mark Zuckerberg in this video or if it is an avatar of Mark Zuckerberg, nor can I tell if my confusion is because Meta’s technology for the metaverse is really good or if it’s because Mark Zuckerberg is really weird.

Okay, I am getting much better at controlling GPT4 with custom context. I can get much better utility doing this, I now find the vanilla models to be painfully mainstream, really blunted. But by structuring the responses and how it approaches problems I can work with it much more naturally. Had a weird idea. Giving your AI assistant a name… ? Give it your middle name.

The whole Canadian parliament lionising a WWII vet for fighting against USSR and only LATER ON realise that means he was a Nazi SS vet and that they just crystallised Russia’s entire 2 year propaganda campaign, just blows my mind. Absolutely staggering.