Implementing Science Fiction @ Deep Future. VC – Bestseller – Podcast. —dangerously-skip-apathy
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What is the most sophisticated piece of code ever written? This is a great answer...
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18 years ago, I got to help start Blue Origin with Jeff Bezos. I've never really talked about it it publicly or in the press. Until now. Wired has just published Steven Levy's story about the origin of Blue. It is... wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-b…
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This is a $99 DNA sequencer. That’s the price for the machine, not just a test. You can put it right between Alexa and your Nespresso. Find out what new viruses you’ve picked up while making breakfast!
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Even smart people who understand A.I. seem to really be mischaracterizing how this will play out in the near term.
GPT is a model that humans can relate to, because they can use their iown language to interact with it. Don’t ask it to drive you home. It will happily try, but it is not the kind of model you want for that. Don’t ask GPT to do your taxes. Definitely don’t ask it to perform surgery. Again, it would oblige but the results would be about the same as if you averaged the surgical skills of everyone you know.
From here, we build a thousand models. Each optimized for their use case. Each embodying the understanding and values of their creators. In the very near future, like this year, when you ask GPT to do math, it will get help from Wolfram Alpha. When you ask it to drive, it might invoke Tesla. Hopefully by the time you need a surgery, DeepMind will have created AlphaOperation.
All the conjecture about LLMs is hot air if you don’t accept that their architecture and training is not appropriate for lots of things and that we will solve that with a multitude of models that are. Models that might suck at speaking your language but are better than the best humans at their intended task.
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Lee Cronin is a true mad scientist. He's a professor of chemistry in Glasgow, where he also founded Chemify. He's built this machine called a computer, which is basically a 3D printer for chemistry.
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A.I. stands for Augmented Intelligence. Accepting this can spare you from a lot of dystopian bullshit.
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Any ideas for how I can do a better job of relating to a mainstream audience? Patrick Bet-David interviewed me for his show, which was super fun, but it looks like his audience thinks I'm an alien.
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@samykamkar and I recorded a conversation to share with everyone. This is your chance to hang out with a world class hacker (um, Samy, not me). Please share, the Deep Future Podcast into something awesome.
deepfuture.tech/podcast/samy…
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We tore open some Dell Laptop batteries and burned the Lithium in a fire vortex for St. Patrick's Day. @IVinvents #IntellectualVenturesLab
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There is a team at NASA Ames Research Center that has been working on this for decades. They may not be the right people to build it but they certainly know the difficulties and problems to solve. It used to be led by Ron Reisman RIP. Track down whoever is left.
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#chatcontrol is a convenient way to CC your favorite world leaders on every txt message you send. Who do you most look forward to have reading all your DMs?
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Mussolini
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Stalin
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Hitler
141 votes • Final results
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Envision the world you want to live in.
Know that you must create this world.
Surround yourself with supportive co-conspirators.
Focus your energy on what you are uniquely good at.
Did I forget anything?
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It is rare for me to speak to an audience that already knows me.
This is a pretty heartfelt talk about how I see the world and our position in it. I'd love to hear what you think about it. piped.video/watch?v=_JO2L8i1…
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Explaining the technologies we call artificial intelligence, how they work & their potential to advance humans is increasingly important to me. I'm in this new film MACHINE with some other experts trying to make the topic more accessible.
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I am so thrilled that my TEDxLA talk just went live. These are my... fb.me/XxRGK3t5
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You all know I'm a hacker & a Cypherpunk. If you are locked out of your crypto wallet, I may be able to help.
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I spoke at the Fortune CEO Initiative yesterday, trying to share a possibilist perspective on technology.
fortune.com/2019/06/11/ai-ro…
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It will probably get increasingly difficult to have a conversation with me about anything if you haven't read... fb.me/19Z3pax2E
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ChatGPT told a UC Berkeley student that I'm an expert on AI. I just did a call with her and explained that nobody is an expert on AI at this point.
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Please look at this chart to see our possible futures. We know what will curb the spread of COVID-19. The damage and lives lost is directly proportional to how quickly we act.
There is extraordinary power in our ability to create…lnkd.in/g2d7nqm lnkd.in/gwJNCvA
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Bill Gates wrote about a couple more amazing inventions we created here at the Intellectual Ventures Lab to help improve vaccination for kids. These ingenious devices solve the problem of transporting vaccines in places where... gatesnotes.com/health/the-bi…
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If you are interested in robots, automation, AI, crypto-anything, or the decline of western civilization because of social media, this recent talk of mine tries to offer some perspective on these technology trends.... piped.video/watch?v=NH-lMUBh…
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Today we launch Jetpack for the Mind! My podcast where I try to understand the biggest problems in the world and learn about the technologies that could help us solve them. I hope you’ll follow along on this journey podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Want to see me debate a professor from Princeton about whether we are living in a simulation?
IdeaFront
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My list of books I think everyone should read:
goodreads.com/review/list/96…
If you want to read one of those books, just let me know. If you... goodreads.com/review/list/96…
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Saul Griffith is a genius at doing arithmetic to save the planet. Spend 12 minutes of your holiday watching this and I will give you a moneyback guarantee. Also, I will vote for any candidate that makes Saul Griffith the Secretary... piped.video/watch?v=Jc4wDL16…
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I’m pretty sure I would like twttr more if I could shut off retweets. I tried unfollowing everybody who was tweeting about politics but I still get a lot of crap in my feed they is just retweets. How do I stop this? I miss RSS.
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I tried to find some crap to buy on sale for Prime Day but now all I have is a cart full of stuff that isn't on sale.
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David Eagleman, a neuroscientist teaching at Stanford; amazing TED talk; author of "Incognito: the secret lives of the brain;" the novel "Sum: forty Tales from the Afterlives;" the "Inner Cosmos" podcast; founder of Neosensory. Come learn & get inspired.
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Creating Technologies that Matter. I wrote the book to share a lot of hopeful stories about how we can make the future more awesome. Forbes will publish in July but pre-orders help me out a lot!
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The Intellectual Ventures Lab got to play a crucial role in the origin story of metamaterials. This is the best history of the technology ever written, from the early days when it... stories.duke.edu/beyond-mate…
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Did you know a non-manipulative decentralized social media dominated before Twitter & Facebook existed? #RSS
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Bill Gates announced today that he's personally backing the search for an Alzheimer's cure. This is a big deal,... fb.me/9iFSsRDUk
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I get to give the Presidential Lecture at the University of Tulsa tomorrow night. It is open to the public, so if you know anyone in Tulsa, let them know!
utulsa.edu/about/presidentia… utulsa.edu/about/presidentia…
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Check out episode 🔟 of Jetpack for the Mind featuring @Evofem's badass female CEO creating biotech for women. I had an awesome conversation with @Saundraceo and finally get to share it with you!
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Possibly the most inhumane industry on Earth is #cobalt #mining to make the batteries in your phone, laptop & electric car. Please just listen to the first 15 minutes of this conversation with Siddhartha Kara who has gotten to the bottom of this story .
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I’m going on stage at the Singularity Universtiy Mexico Summit in a few minutes. This country has such a vibrant economy. I am so optimistic about their potential! #PensemosSingular
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This is a great example of why biometrics are a terrible choice for authentication in general. THERE IS NO... fb.me/PczUCMQk
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Coinbase description of Bitcoin. If you are born and raised next to a milestone, you may not know what it represents until you venture for at least a mile in either direction. At least a hundred crypto currencies were invented & several deployed that paved the way for Bitcoin.
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Ever wonder what all those followers you have are for?
Please tell them to binge watch all 8 episodes of my friend @rockpaperrobot perform engineering magic on @Netflix's #hackmyhome. It is soulful and you'll get some good home improvement ideas. netflix.com/title/81319212
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Supremely delightful interview of my buddy @samykamkar by @tferriss - get a feel for how hackers think.
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A Raspberry Pi now costs less than a @Starbucks coffee according to @bradtem at @singularityu #GSummit #IoT @IoTiPenton
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I'm trying to connect the dots on how we can make the future awesome for people and our planet.
This is an important new TEDtalk for me that just went live and I hope my sincerity is coming through.
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If you are interested in understanding why we can’t save the planet with “renewables,” this is a great talk by an environmentalist.
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We built a canon at the Intellectual Ventures Lab that can fire a ping pong ball at mach 2.1 - more than twice... fb.me/3hPHlWFnZ
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I'm pretty sure you've never seen me post about politics. Here's Jennifer Lawrence explaining why. facebook.com/pablos08/posts/…
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The internet seems to have just gotten worse. Every video I watched today stopped after the first 15 seconds to play an ad.
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So much hackyness in the #JasonBourne movie. I wish I had progress bars on my firewall exploit GUI.
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Fortune covered @thebombsheller Clothing Co of the Future. Our first press in the US! Please help me spread the word fortune.com/2014/09/10/pablo…
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One of the most important projects I work on is data.world - kind of like GitHub for data. This is an incredibly powerful product for any kind of team working... techcrunch.com/2018/09/25/da…
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Don’t try to regulate things that don’t yet exist, that aren’t yet understood. Innovation requires a lot of experimentation to figure out what works and doesn’t work. Once we discover the problems, then we innovate the best ways to solve them. People are way better at imagining things going wrong than imagining things going right.
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Another great interview with Bill Gates about what important technologies could make a big difference in the world over the next decade or so.
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TLDR; reduce C section births, minimize antibiotics, save your children's poop!
The #microbiome in you is an extraordinary frontier that we are at the beginning of understanding.
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Think for a moment of the biggest thing you can imagine. Then check this out.
neal.fun/size-of-space/ neal.fun/size-of-space/
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Isabelle Boemeke is a real live millennial and nuclear electricity influencer whose book should be in schools. If you don’t feel like you could explain why nuclear reactors are the right thing to do for clean energy, please read this book so Isabelle can demystify them for you.
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Want to see some great footage of mosquitoes being zapped with lasers? This is a fun look behind the scenes at our Photonic Fence project from the Intellectual Ventures Lab. facebook.com/pablos08/posts/…
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You've been threading needles wrong your whole life. good.is/articles/threading-n…
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Understanding problems well enough to create good solutions is hard work. One of the most important things to do is build your understanding of a problem from first principles. You need an understanding of the system... facebook.com/pablos08/posts/…
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RoboKiller is my favorite thing right now. It answers all the scammy and bogus telemarketing calls and then uses a bot to engage them in useless chatter. I get a lot of great entertainment out of listening to the... facebook.com/pablos08/videos…
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@eatscifi can only produce a few ACTUAL BEEF burgers a month so far and eating this one was everything I expect from a burger, nothing like the substitutes.
Soon, we can live in a world where everyone can eat burgers free of greenhouse gas, guilt & cows.
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Apparently we have a corporate policy for tweeting at the Intellectual Ventures Lab. "Use common sense" - whatever that is....
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The problem with this amazing video of Physics Girl with Rodney Mullen is that it doesn't go on for hours. For anyone interested in education, THIS is how to do it. Contextualize learning in things people are actually interested in.... piped.video/watch?v=yFRPhi0j…
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Of people you know personally:
How many have had COVID-19?
How many have died from it?
How many lost their company?
How many lost their jobs?
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My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus. - Stephen Hawking.
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#OpenAI was started with the insight that this technology was too important for a big tech company control. Using that logic to rally a lot of talent and resources, they were the first to wrangle massive compute for an LLM and share it with the world. Let’s give them credit for that.
But they were misguided about how “open” could be achieved and they became complicit in paving the way for big tech to take the lead once again.
Now is the time to imagine and pursue possible futures where thousands of different AIs are built by as many different groups in as may different ways as software in general is.
Only thus Darwinian, democratic and decentralized process of competing ideas can hope to deliver a technology that is truly open.
Having a place in the history book doesn’t mean you have a place in the future. We have all the ingredients we need to build the future, none of which were, or are, exclusively held by OpenAI.
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Whoops, this is the Lithium fire vortex. The green one is Cooper. @IVinvents #IntellectualVenturesLab
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This takes only six seconds to watch and shows a model of how vaccination rates make a drastic difference in the ability of a disease to spread.
m.imgur.com/r/dataisbeautifu… m.imgur.com/r/dataisbeautifu…
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Most of my life is spent trying to implement @nealstephenson novels. Termination Shock was announced today. It explores climate change and what humans might be able to do about it. Pre-order now and we can do a book club together when it ships!
harpercollins.com/products/t…
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At the Intellectual Ventures Lab, we published a 2400 page cookbook on the science of cooking, but somehow never... fb.me/15n7mjYhm
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Attention is already supply limited. It doesn’t matter how much spam, lies & crap is made with or without AI tools. All of it has to compete with the things that already have us maxed out. Netflix, YouTube, Elections, PornHub TikTok, Video Games, etc.
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I'm speaking at the Hacker News Meetup in Bellevue on Wednesday night. Nathan Myhrvold was supposed to speak but he's sick, so I get the honor. I won't try to fill Nathan's shoes (mine are cooler anyway) but... meetup.com/HackerNewsSeattle…
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2% of solar panels are manufactured domestically. Every time we buy enough panels to create a new job in the US producing panels creates 34 new jobs doing the same thing in China. @chamath @theallinpod
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This is on my left, who developed their line of beef cells using synthetic biology techniques. The jar of beef cells growing in suspension on my right obsoletes the need for a cow.
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Long post about productivity tools and what I think is missing.
I use TheBrain to keep track of people, the companies they work for, their interests, events we've been to together, etc. This goes in a giant graph database that is... piped.video/watch?v=GFqLUBKC…
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Meet the Managers: Learn how I launched a VC firm on April 28th at 9:00 a.m. Pacific.
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I got to be a guest on the Super Data Science podcast. This is an extraordinary community for people interested in building a career in data science. You won't find a more diverse group... superdatascience.com/podcast…
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My friend Erik Neumann make interesting, fun physics simulations that work in the browser: Newtons Cradle,... fb.me/172wmFdBY
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Bringing tech innovation to Madurai would ignite incredible opportunities for our talented local developers. Let's make it happen.
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I'm obsessed with changing the way humans make stuff. piped.video/watch?v=H4m84dmZ…
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If you are in a business primed for disruption, read Rob Wolcott's book PROXIMITY. If you want to join the rebels, read mine, Deep Future. If you're on the fence, read Rob's Forbes article that just dropped.
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People watched 52 billion minutes of The Office last year. That's like having 416,667 full time employees doing nothing but watching The Office - all year. I'll spare you... origin-www.nbcuniversal.com/…
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“God did not invent pasta.” - Me. Clearly trying to make a lot of friends. I was the guest on the Smart Kitchen podcast which was a lot of fun.
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