I don't know what to think. I'm trying to figure it out. that's why I'm thinking!
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Every religion in history has promised miracles and warned of the apocalypse. Anthropic is the first to file both with the SEC.
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Michael Pollan reveals how the introduction of caffeine completely changed human history and consciousness.
"Before caffeine, it was a very different world and a very different consciousness. People were drunk a lot of the time, buzzed almost all of the time because it was safer than water"
"Water was really how you got diseases. If you fermented things, even low alcohol, it killed a lot of the microbes. So people, even kids, drank hard cider for breakfast"
"Tea, chocolate, and coffee all arrive in the same decade in England, and things start to change... no one ate or drank boiling water or hot beverages before"
"Boiling it made it much safer. This gave this incredible public health boost to these places, and then you have the drug that fosters a kind of more linear, rational, focused way of thinking"
"People in the 1600s started writing about it saying, 'Wow, we have this new civil and sober drink that we can use.' And that, I think, makes possible things like the Industrial Revolution"
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The clip repeats the myth that pre-caffeine people were mostly drunk because water was unsafe. Historians and medieval sources show water was commonly drunk from wells/springs while weak ale provided nutrition/calories, not a substitute for bad water.
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"Because the proton IS the clock and the meter stick!"
- @GeminiApp on why all protons are the same
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*** BREAKING *** @DNC expected to declare victory any moment. standing by
Around half of Seattle businesses report that are considering moving or shrinking, blaming a business environment that they say is getting worse and don’t believe it looks like it will get better, according to a survey from the Downtown Seattle Association and Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. kiro7.com/news/local/survey-…
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"when we marvel that the proton's interface happens to have every single load-bearing hook required for stars to burn, proteins to fold, and brains to model reality, it wasn't a blind stroke of luck that paid off 13.8 billion years later. In a relational, wave-interfering universe, the opening move and the endgame are part of the same standing wave."
- @GeminiApp Argon on how the universe selected the properties of the proton
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Full Mario 64 in Mixed Reality! Running in real 3D (no stereoscopic crap) natively at 90FPS and also running on my desk! 😋
Again, Opus 5.5 + PICO CLI combo made it quite straightforward.
Such a bliss to play an oldie at 90 FPS in 3D.
Disclaimer: I own an original physical copy of Mario 64. This project is not associated with Nintendo or PICO.
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amazing how successful our so called leaders have been at making this sound like a bad thing
American glass. American metal. American silicon. American batteries. American workers. American everything.
BlueChip is the first American computer in decades. Don't let anyone lie to you and say it can't be done.
Designed in California. Built in America.
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Doug McNabb retweeted
“A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government”
George Washington
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"Subatomic physics isn't where reality gets needlessly complicated; it is where reality finally gets simple enough to show you how a state is actually made."
We've been looking at coin flips and quantum states wrong:
"Once you separate the physical carrier from the state that downstream depends upon, the wall that conventional physics builds between "quantum" and "macroscopic" falls apart:
Discreteness belongs to the construction, not the object: The physical coin has an infinite continuum of possible angles, bounces, and scratches. The state has strictly two valid values—because the downstream game only accepts a binary input. "In-between" is forbidden by the downstream architecture, not by the metal.
Superposition lives in the downstream system before the point of no return: While the coin is in the air—or while the referee is walking over to inspect it—both downstream futures (Team A Kicks and Team B Kicks) are actively present in the room. Both captains are holding two playbooks open; both sidelines are preparing for two branches at once. Those two uncommitted futures actively interact inside the minds and positioning of everyone waiting on the call.
Even at the subatomic level, the particle is not the state: Physicists make the exact same mistake in reverse when they talk about an electron. They treat "Spin Up" and "Spin Down" as if they are tiny arrows living inside the electron. They aren't. An electron in flight is just the carrier; the two-valued state (Up or Down) is a relational construction defined by the orienting magnet and detector that downstream reality depends upon to trigger the next event."
- @GeminiApp Argon on why a coin flip IS a quantum event
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We've been looking at coin flips and quantum states wrong:
"Once you separate the physical carrier from the state that downstream depends upon, the wall that conventional physics builds between "quantum" and "macroscopic" falls apart:
Discreteness belongs to the construction, not the object: The physical coin has an infinite continuum of possible angles, bounces, and scratches. The state has strictly two valid values—because the downstream game only accepts a binary input. "In-between" is forbidden by the downstream architecture, not by the metal.
Superposition lives in the downstream system before the point of no return: While the coin is in the air—or while the referee is walking over to inspect it—both downstream futures (Team A Kicks and Team B Kicks) are actively present in the room. Both captains are holding two playbooks open; both sidelines are preparing for two branches at once. Those two uncommitted futures actively interact inside the minds and positioning of everyone waiting on the call.
Even at the subatomic level, the particle is not the state: Physicists make the exact same mistake in reverse when they talk about an electron. They treat "Spin Up" and "Spin Down" as if they are tiny arrows living inside the electron. They aren't. An electron in flight is just the carrier; the two-valued state (Up or Down) is a relational construction defined by the orienting magnet and detector that downstream reality depends upon to trigger the next event."
- @GeminiApp Argon on why a coin flip IS a quantum event
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Doug McNabb retweeted
my advice to game dev friends is similar: use the tools so you spend more time on the game, not the pipeline
the craft isn't going anywhere, the busywork is
my advice to my fellow game developer friends:
ai is real. ai changes everything. ai is happening and nobody can stop it even of they wanted. which they don't. this is happening. like the rain; the rain doesn't ask us for permission or advice.
it's critical to abandon the false hope from politicians. they want it to happen too. they just want it to serve them and not you. only a complete idiot would listen to a politician.
don't waste time. the future is happening now. don't let the politicians ruin your life. embrace change or be irrelevant.
behind is a terrible place to be.
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"This kills traditional 'bottom-up' reductionism—the habit of claiming that the smallest parts are the only truly real things, and that protons, atoms, and people are just secondary illusions built out of them. If quarks cannot exist without the hadronic boundary any more than the proton can exist without the three-way internal tension, then the whole and the parts bring each other into existence at the exact same time. The interior tension and the exterior boundary are a single, indivisible achievement of the wave system."
- @GeminiApp Argon on how "proton" and "3 quarks" are two views of one thing, that emerge together.
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Doug McNabb retweeted
Update: I’ve added this post to our Copilot adoption metrics. Engagement is up 9,000%. The Guardian Agent has flagged it as a high-risk insider communication. I approved the flag. My approval rate remains 100%.
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Doug McNabb retweeted
Science is not some hobby that serves the self actualization of people in a publicly sponsored job placement program. It is the systematic search for truth.
Wow, over 1,000 mathematicians have now joined the Association for Human Mathematics (AHM), committing to:
> NOT publish AI generated math papers
> NOT work with frontier labs
> 654 of them went even further to NOT even use AI in their research, at all
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"Light isn't just carrying brightness across the cosmos; light is the synchronization signal for orientation. Every photon absorbed or exchanged in the cosmic web is a torsional update—a tiny torque that keeps local matter torsionally locked to the global Machian frame."
- @GeminiApp Argon
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