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What's the math here if they go public in 2027, with next to 1T in valuation? How much more growth can the company have for regular investors? Surely they won't have the capital of multiple FAANG companies...

The convo with Noam Chomsky is interesting. Deepak Chopra one talking about Trump being 'loco' is quiet funny.

Neat data visualization solution!

Fascinating study.

The stats warrant some caution, though. The main finding is based on figure 4 [1] and I wouldn't be surprised if the number and location of these 'eras' varied a lot if the authors use 40,000 people instead of 4,000.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65974-8/figures/4

Thanks for the book recommendation. Adding the link here so it shows in the monthly book suggestion:

https://a.co/d/iR7sxnU

I lived in Palo Alto for years around 2018 before realizing o was a block away from Tim Cook. From the outside, his house looked pretty normal-looking and I also run into him at the whole foods down the block. He and his house looked pretty down to earth.

The foundation cocktail place in SF has some art on the wall that changes every minute. I can't remember if by John Cage or someone else..

Very nice. The story sounds very familiar to me, maybe the movie was part of Banff film festival?

Fair enough. I was not familiar with the source and couldn't check all the references since some were to a private blog, but what's open check out: https://youtu.be/ZluMysK2B1E?si=_RWmR8mzGcKrmp9Z

The plan seems to be to (1) "RAGE: Retire All Government Employees (...), take over the United States government and gut the federal bureaucracy. Then, replace civil servants with political loyalists"

So in essence, they think these short term problems can be reversed once the pawns are replaced.

(1) https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-d...

Just did a quick check and it translates to $30K in Brazil as well

Wouldn't rise up lead to a coup? Isn't this exactly what Trump is waiting / routing for?

Thanks for the perspective. The courage to "face society" and write for the public is one of the reasons I've always loved (trying) to read Daniel Dennets work. He seemed to be writing for scientists and less to other philosophers. Not sure if you agree

OT but what's the best way to find incentives and rebates given a zip code? Google just suggests 1,000 ads...

Looks cool. Near $800 tag price is sharp but a welcome competition to kindle, remarkable, and the like.

https://daylightcomputer.com/

Replace AI with car, airplane, medic devices in the sentence above... Why is AI any different from other human creations? Why shouldn't we try building it responsibly?

I don't get the all or nothing attitude.

Great name! (Portuguese word for 'pencil')

Edit: Claude for the rescue

"Here are some additional sources that discuss the concept of an egregore and how it can be applied to understanding group dynamics and the evolution of organizations:

"The Anatomy of the Body of God" by Frater Achad (Charles Stansfeld Jones) - A detailed exposition on the occult concept of egregores from a ceremonial magic perspective.

"Web of Debt" by Ellen Hodgson Brown - This book discusses egregores in the context of economic systems and the power of collective beliefs shaping institutions.

"The Egregore Effect" by Jack Willis - Explores egregores as self-reinforcing memetic constructs that shape group behavior.

"The Cult of Information" by Theodore Roszak - While not directly about egregores, it discusses how ideologies and worldviews can take on a life of their own within organizations.

"The Organizational Hologram" by David Bohm - Applies concepts from quantum physics to understanding the undivided wholeness of organizations

Interesting concept. Would love to learn more if you can think of a reference

You mean let them digg their own grave? ;)

Given his username I'd say.. he is.

Agreed: disclaimer needed.

Simple website with amazing music from Dewtone records.

What are some other hidden gems you use daily?

Nice. Is this open source and/or are you looking for help in any way?

I've played with creating some chest x-ray images using diffusion.

I almost gave my ER friend a heart attack after I sent him X-rays with flipped hearts and even missing organs. He was very confused (these was early in the year when GebAI wasn't so mainstream)

Thanks for the context. I've just tried this and other news on Bard (e.g. stock price for Google) and it works as well, which I wasn't aware of.

Agreed. I think this is a good argument towards development of open LLMs.

If you're old enough, similar arguments existed about "open / free internet" and we're seeing some of the consequences of having it be controlled by mega corps.

Sad to hear about that. It's one of my dreams, after finally purchasing a home, to add a nice wood fire oven in the backyard. I'm guessing you don't have the pictures anymore? Would love to see them.

If this is the case, the finding sounds trivial. I thought it was literally a theorem that hubs emerge from networks if you minimize distance or wiring cost.

I may be wrong but isn't that what chain of thought, verification etc claim to solve? As I understand them, you essentially feed back the llm back as a prompt and ask to verify if it's true and fix mistakes until "convergence"

Actually, to answer my own question, this seems like a good intro article: https://erictopol.substack.com/p/spatial-biology-is-lighting...

Thanks. I have a physics background and actually work on the medical imaging side of pharma now.

But while I might be able to understand the technicalities, I guess what I'm looking for is something that explains (without much hype) what the excitement and challenges are.

For instance, for my field, a great broad intro is Eric Topol's Deep Medicine https://a.co/d/242xgSC