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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“Environmental groups are using AI while also warning about data center costs. When have you used a tool you worried about, and how did you decide it was okay?”
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The Open Question Jun 24: What makes humans unique & valuable?
Hey y'all! This week Oracle said in its official SEC filing it replaced 21,000 jobs with AI. And last month Pope Leo XIV delivered his first encyclical arguing that the real danger of is that we start treating people, including ourselves, as products to be optimized and... Trump is going to be President (again)
The assassination attempt is definitely helping propel Trump to the presidency (aka the belief that "God is ordaining Trump to be president, thus saved him from harm"), though Elon Musk’s immediate endorsement after the assassination attempt (and $45 mil per month committed... - annabeth...
UpTrust is both destroying my interest in other social media platforms and improving the way I interact with them. It became blatant to me this week when I realized my screen time limits had long since stopped popping up for social media.... How does "Anderson v TikTok/ByteDance" relate to UpTrust?
(continued from the Uptrust slack) Links: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judges-rule-big-techs-free-ride-on Hacker News discussion This stuff was hard for me to make sense of. I think writing about it here has helped.... - annabeth...
Like is different than trust
I think Jordan said at an uptrust session that he misses the like button. I’m having the same feeling lately, there are posts I like that I wouldn’t necessarily say I trust. Or I want to give it some sort of "that was cool" but I don’t want that statement in my trust algorithm.... The VP Debate
Hey y’all, What we’re up to tonight Tonight we’re going to have fun, test how UpTrust works with 20-30 people simultaneously using it, and perhaps gain some insight and make some connections.... - Arun...
A future I love is more village than city.
Perhaps there's a sci-fi version here where humans become much much better at cities, but the version I like at the moment is Village 2.0. I want to keep networked, light-speed global communication, so knowledge can continue to evolve, enrich, and compound.... - annabeth...
What will the future literally look like?
This idea comes from watching Mad Men- seeing smoking and drinking freely at the office for example, and my brother once pointing out that if a show or movie ever wanted to make it really clear that it was set in the 1990’s, all they’d have to do is have multiple people driving... Some integral philosophy/analysis behind TreeView
Forums like Reddit and Facebook are essentially "Orange" interaction paradigms—there's a static "original post" and a fixed hierarchy. Some benefits of this are that you get some sense of coherence to a conversation, and if you're ten layers deep in replies, you can quickly... - renee...
Would you still scroll if you knew your stats?
I read that the average person checks their phone 150 times a day!! Wild right? It would be cool if social platforms gave stats like, you have logged in 8 times today or you have spent 55 minutes total here today, or 5 hours this week.... Yes! I have a chrome extension for Gmail called inbox when ready, and it tells me how many times I've checked my inbox each day. Also after X times, it makes me wait like 10 seconds before I can check again. It's very helpful.... - annabeth...
Can we handle the truth?
If UpTrust works the way it’s intended, it will make truth more accessible. But what percentage of the population currently has the capacity to face truth? Perhaps alongside truth, the tech will make the skills for being with the truth more accessible too.... - dave...
We could have multiple dating bots and use the trust network to work out which ones to suggest to users. The spicier version would be a bot that had access to your previous uses of the bot, so it could send summaries to both parties.... Even as a programmer I feel the pull to outsource my thinking to the machine when I use LLMs. It feels almost like a reflex, subconscious, as if my brain notices that it "got something" really easily and sets a very low ceiling for how hard I'm willing to work.... Open Question Aug 26: Does a shadow cabal run the world?
Hey all, We've been asking philosophical questions that don't dive into the normal polarization party lines. Partly bc we don't want to do that, partly bc I dont want to attention monger with divisive content.... - joshua...
How do we get to a future with a more tech literate society?
There are so many things that are coming down the pipeline that both sacrifice people’s technological freedoms and violate their privacy: Google has recently decided to start determining who’s allowed to create apps that can be installed on Android.... - joshua...
The best ways I've found to use AI are explaining concepts to me that I can easily grok but just am not familiar with, to do simple tasks that I can audit, and as a search engine.... some bits i want to highlight, as a fellow bitcoin enthusiast: Everything else in ""crypto"" besides Bitcoin is at best, a startup with a yet-to-be-proven use case and in most cases more like a scam.... I hadn't thought about this so clearly, and I think you're absolutely right. do you think Nvidia is actively thinking about this, or do you think it's a happy-for-them and terrible-for-most-of-the-world byproduct?... Read the full postWhat cool new technologies are you seeing emerge? How do we know we can trust them?
Curious about all, but I'd especially love to see non-AI versions, like: New batteries for solar: storing heat in big piles of dirt A while back Tommy mentioned cowfart backpacks Maybe it's something old for you, but we're not in your field so we don't know about it yet Even...