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@EricWollberg

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co-founder @PropheticAI

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Joined March 2020
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Late stage empires don’t build things this extraordinary.
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@visegrad24 They are worried extremist elements of the society might destabilize their country. It almost happened with Jordan.
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There is another acceleration happening
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@EricWollberg
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OpenAI is a Nvidia wrapper Nvidia is a TSMC wrapper TSMC is an ASML wrapper ASML is a Zeiss wrapper Congratulations everyone you just discovered how a technologically advanced economy operates.
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Jensen Huang and Lisa Su (CEO of AMD) are first cousins, once removed. The House Atreides exists...it was born in Taiwan, moved the US, and now controls the spice production of Earth.
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Anime mega corporations exist and they are American.
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@EricWollberg
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@Harvard A late and ambiguous statement. The level of shame you bring to such a storied institution is unreal. Your motto is "veritas", yet you refuse to make a clear statement on moral truths that the society you are apart of stand for.
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@EricWollberg
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Remember when you’re talking about the decline of America, this is what you’re betting against. Happy fourth 🇺🇸
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Sir Jamie Dimon is building a new art deco HQ for JPM at an insane clip in midtown manhattan. It will be the largest all electric tower in the world. It is a monument to techno-capital.
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@EricWollberg
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The fourth turning is over. We’re going to get immaculate disinflation. Russia will lose the war. China will stagnate and not invade Taiwan. AI will give us a massive productivity boom. Fission/Fusion/batteries will give us cheap clean energy. We are going to the stars.
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Central control building of a field of a 3.2 million solar panel farm in Karapinar, Turkey
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Wandering through space-time
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Into eternity we go
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god put sand all over the earth for a reason.
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Is anyone else’s neuralink acting weird?
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@EricWollberg
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The amazing thing about Her is that it clearly takes place in the 2020s - a world like our own that is simultaneously experiencing AI takeoff. When the movie came out in 2013, I remember thinking that the scenery and plot were temporally mismatched. I was wrong.
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@EricWollberg
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One of our investors immediately came by the office to try it: “Whoa - I feel elated…like all of the sudden”
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This is peak @WillManidis
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@EricWollberg
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Music is perhaps the most powerful and developed form of neurotechnology we have. Its ability to change our conscious experience with mere sound is extraordinary. Soon, with that very medium, we will be able to give people conscious experiences as divine as music.
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@EricWollberg
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My lord the breakthrough the team just made... The image is the hint - but I promise you - you won't guess it
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“The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.” - Terence McKenna
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In another life, in all the other possible lives that I could have lived, I would have found her over and over again.
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Four SpaceX rocket launches in one day. Varda is coming home. Sora, Gemini 1.5, , etc. @ADoricko is making it rain. Every day we step closer to exploring the state-space of conscious experiences at will. And it’s all happening here.
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Excited to announce that we've raised $1.1M in funding led by @BoxGroup (shout out to @c_goldsmith ) with participation from @osventuresllc , @spacecadet , @a16z , @EV3ventures , @tekinsalimi , @ani_pai , @evanbfish , @drydenwtbrown , @bertcmiller , and others
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@EricWollberg
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@vimpunk Or...and give me some rope here...you can build the future and have fun at the same time
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Fukuyaman theory vs. Fukuyaman praxis
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@Sam__Cash I know this must be though for you as a Brit
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@zebulgar It’s an example of a minority that transcended its victimhood (despite what people claim) via meritocracy
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@EricWollberg
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People posting "bread and circuses" and images of the colosseum have a poor understanding of the present and the past. The colosseum was built in 70 AD - 400 years before the fall of the empire The US has remained 25% of global GDP since 1995 (the peak of the uni-polar world)
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You Are Now Entering The Dreamworld.
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Ladies and gentleman - we got her.
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Re-reading this in light of recent developments
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Lmao - naturally I got stopped by TSA because of the Halo prototypes. I opened up the box and told the guy what they were and he kept calling over more agents. Two of them said they lucid dream and will reserve one. You love to see it.
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This is my pitch in a meme.
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@EricWollberg
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The next generation.
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It’s their world, we’re just living in it.
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@EricWollberg
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@chamath My guess is @chamath knows about The Salton Sea. A March 2020 report from research organization SRI International estimated that the Salton Sea area could produce 600,000 tons of lithium a year, almost eight times last year’s global production.
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I am not worried about sea level rise. Just send Dutch civil engineers all over the world like McKinsey consultants.
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The Secret of The World: There is more opportunity out there than anyone wants you to believe - @rivatez
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Anime mega corporations exist and they are American.
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Every Friday I ask my U of Waterloo intern what he’s doing this weekend and he just replies “grinding” The grind in question:
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asic design is so fun
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“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.” - Will Durant
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We are surrounded by wonders… If you wish to reenchant your life all you need to do is notice them.
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We are on the precipice. Prophetic is in a phase transition from a hardware/ai company to a full blown neurostimulation company. We will become the center of the technological generation of conscious experiences.
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I want whatever cocktail of stimulants they’re giving Biden tonight
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I was talking to a Columbia law professor who specializes in corporate governance and asked him why we can’t have standard corporate structures anymore: “We can’t, we don’t know how to do it anymore”
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In the final analysis - we are gods.
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@whatifalthist Vanity & Envy - Instagram Gluttony - Tiktok Wrath & Pride - Twitter
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The next couple of years in the US seem to be taking a clearer shape: 1) AI will eat a lot of upper middle class work and see the gini coefficient decrease as a result 2) Dignity of blue collar work will return, fueled by massive re-industrialization in NA
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NYC is one gigantic monument to the American spirit.
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We spent $280 billion on the chips act to move semiconductor fabs to the US from Taiwan Varda is going to move superconductor production to the US from South Korea for like $1000 in materials, beer and pizza on a weekend
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looking for your next job? come work at a company where our first reaction to the superconductor news was realizing we had almost all the equipment to replicate it so ~10 engineers are coming in over the weekend to give it a shot
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Western civilization doesn’t exist anymore. There is a technophilic anglosphere and a technophobic continental europe. The former will accelerate into the future, while the other will stagnate into a time capsule that we will all visit for novelty.
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Germany Considers Banning ChatGPT Over Data Privacy Issues
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@EricWollberg
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I couldn't be more proud of my team and the incredible work they have done to get to this point. It's pretty awesome that our jobs now largely consist of coming into an office and inducing experiences. We are entering an entirely new world of induced conscious experiences...
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Prophetic has successfully engineered a focused ultrasound system and has started neurostimulation. On April 16th, Prophetic's co-founders @EricWollberg & @weslouis_ were the first people to receive stimulation from an internally designed and manufactured ultrasound transducer.
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@EricWollberg
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This is the birth location of every Nobel laureate in Physics. The overrepresentation of NYC is the result of 20th century agglomerations of first generation jews. 7 of them come from just one school - The Bronx school of Science. Including Feynman & Gell-Mann.
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would be crazy if someone made something like this… you know, like a device that puts you into a world indistinguishable from reality where you could receive prophetic messages…
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The day before my wedding I had $1400 in the mercury account and was probably 1-2 months away from personal bankruptcy. A week later I was married and we raised nearly 3 times the amount we were looking for - best week of my life. This week was absolutely the second best.
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Six years ago, outside the old city of Jerusalem, I sat under an olive tree. Under that tree I realized something - all the prophets received their prophecies in dreams. Ever since, my life’s mission has been to give that power to us all. Today we take one step closer to that.
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1 | 25 | 2024
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@EricWollberg
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Found my wife crying - I asked her what’s wrong and she proceeds to say she’s a terrible wife because she made a monstrous birthday cake It can’t be that bad I assure her - the cake in question lmao
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“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.” ― Buckminster R. Fuller
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It’s morning in American again. Russia - regardless of the success of the coup, won’t win the war. China’s economy is stagnating, so will drop Russia as an allie for a rapprochement with the G7. The probability of an invasion of Taiwan is plummeting.
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New US state just dropped
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Alright I finished it. Basically the crux of it is that if you aren’t in North America you’re fucked. You are a bit less fucked if you live in the Med, Australia, and New Zealand. But again, everyone else is fucked.
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Can’t wait to regurgitate the ideas in this book as my own to you guys
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I just got a demo of the @pipe platform. If I was @Nasdaq I would be offering an ungodly sum of money to acquire them right now.
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You must be pressure-maxing. You must start a company in the toughest fundraising environment in a decade. You must throw a wedding that is massively over budget, and you must have a fiancée that reminds you of this daily. Night sweats, caterer negotiations, rejection - growth
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Climate change is not a big deal China will never economically surpass the United States No one is being turned into paper clips HR departments and school boards are not going to destroy the fabric of American society The dollar will be the reserve currency for decades
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@alexandr_wang 8th largest economy in the world 18 million people with a per a capita income of $111,000 Center of finance, media, fashion, and the second largest tech ecosystem The future isn’t just about tech, it’s about the totality of human endeavor and will be created in NYC
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Linda Yaccarino as Elon tells the advertisers who left X to go fuck themselves
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text-to-image is cool, but EEG/fMRI-to-conscious state is cooler can we train a model to induce brain-states based on neuroimaging data? yes, yes we can
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text-to-image is cool, but DNA-to-image is cooler can we train a model to predict phenotype based on DNA?
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Marrying her in one month.
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This was four months ago. If you had told me then how much progress we would have made by now, I wouldn’t have believed you. A small group of talented and highly aligned people can do extraordinary things. WHAT DREAMS MAY COME?
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INTRODUCING PROPHETIC We are a non-invasive neurotech company building a device to induce and stabilize lucid dreams.
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I’m getting married in two weeks. The extraordinary thing is that I can enter that exact moment when I saw her in that grimy fraternity kitchen for the very first time. And even more extraordinary, I knew…even then…that every moment hence would bring us to this.
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In another life, in all the other possible lives that I could have lived, I would have found her over and over again.
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You live in the reality you fight for.
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. @rivatez “I have a surprise for the dinner tonight” The surprise:
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@DrIbram You have been one of the biggest offenders of this. I would be happy and supportive if you changed your view(s), but this falls on deaf ears without an acknowledgement of your mistakes (which we all make).
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The founding fathers were so attuned to human nature that they created a country where madness could thrive. That madness illuminated the world with the light bulb. That madness achieved flight. That madness sent a man to the moon. That madness still rages on today.
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I can assure you that if you want to succeed - nothing will propel you farther in life than the urge to win for your wife
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It is not enough to expand the light of consciousness across the stars. We must create a prism for that noetic medium to pass through, and in so doing, understand what that light actually is.
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A superconductor and gpu cluster in every house, a modular fusion reactor in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty. We should be reveling in the future of our country.
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God communicates with prophets in dreams for a reason
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Turning 30 29 was the greatest year of my life - got married, started @PropheticAI , and learned a ton - it felt like the culmination of my entire 20s From my perspective your 20s are about sowing, so that in your 30s you can reap Enjoy them, but take them seriously
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Milestone achieved.
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Required reading at Prophetic. @alieninsect is in already the future, and these two books are breadcrumbs for us to follow to get there.
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“The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.” - Terence McKenna
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Watching starship with the wife and pondering the idea of our children traveling the stars Honestly wild that it’s reasonable to consider
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do you understand how insanely awesome it is that we have titans of industry like this? and you think the country is declining anon?
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$PLTR Tell me I actually just watched Karp pop a Zyn and spin a book on his finger mid-interview 🤣🫰
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Many people think about the light cone, but few think about the qualia aleph.
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damn how much did humane pay for this?
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The first time we awake, we are born. The last time we fall asleep, we die. In between is the dream we call life. But there are dreams within the dream, and sometimes, we become lucid. In that state, space is malleable, time is extended and our will becomes our reality.
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What dreams may come…
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@jasonjoyride Lmao there is a massive YouTube channel in you just sitting at dinner explaining complicated technology to girls on date The format and the shot from the outside in is hilarious
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We’re making it rain dreams.
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Theory of Evolution - 1859 Theorization of “highly ordered molecular crystal” - 1944 Structure of DNA - 1953 Genome sequenced - 2000 CRISPR invented - 2012 When we discover the theory of consciousness, it won’t be the end…only the beginning.
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Can't wait to set up Prophetic's international HQ in the "Mindfulness City" that Bjarke Ingels designed for Bhutan.
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now whenever @weslouis_ uses the headband he says, “alright I’m going under” cracks himself up every time
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@johncoogan Was that Kara Swisher crying in the hallway?
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The best thing about executing on something is that it earns you the right to express a larger vision for it. See you tomorrow.
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Prototype incoming.
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“What I have dreamed in an hour is worth more than what you have done in four.” - Lorenzo de' Medici
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A new Axial Age is upon us and I’m going to make sure you all know about it first. - Stabilizing lucid dream states - Crypto hegemony - Bio-synthetic mythological creatures The singularity isn’t AI subjugation, but psychedelic liberation. Come wander with me.
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In a world of agi, the comprehension and exploration of consciousness will take center stage.
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things are accelerating. pretty much nothing needs to change course to achieve agi imo. worrying about timelines is idle anxiety, outside your control. you should be anxious about stupid mortal things instead. do your parents hate you? does your wife love you?
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