Tom Hyde

gm Pinksky

One moment we didn’t know that spacetime could curve, the next we did. But that didn’t necessitate Einstein tearing the universe.

“The universe is at their feet” is the wrong frame. Begging for tyranny. “In their hands” is more like it.

Beautiful thread but I don’t think the existential terror is warranted.

The fundamental powers granted by fundamental discoveries do not necessitate “power” in the oppressive sense—the power to understand and transform, even the mind itself, does not necessitate the coercion of minds.

Knowing the algorithm of AGI is also knowing how to create consciousness, qualia, free will. It’s knowing how these things work, and how they can be taken apart and rebuilt. It’s knowing the core algorithm of creativity, and whether it can be sped up by a factor of 10,000.

chillin with ingroup (alone) (i have no followers) 😌

I love how YudBot comes complete with his trademark fedora diction https://t.co/k44yaL6LGS

Tom dates a girl that doesn’t think he’s genocidal because he takes shiny rocks out of the Earth (impossible)

gaslighting my seasonal depression by travelling between Australia (autumn, hot) and England (spring, cold)

AI to let me selectively delete all 5000 accumulated Wordle screenshots downloaded from my family group chat

jetleg

(I am so fucking tired)

there’s a sort of transhumanist triumph to jetleg in the way that one’s body, intimated with eons of diurnal immobility, cannot physically fathom the sheer velocity of human travel. We are faster than the rise of the sun and the ape inside us is screaming

found my wife

sorry I’m late I was looking for a specific dril tweet

want proof that a man contains multitudes? look at his alt

I have found thought in sleep, voice in silence, matter in vacuum

stream? my consciousness is a torrent! my mind is a flood! my experience is the oncoming of a magmatic cascade!

I kind of like following no one on here, just typing, just posting; all output, all broadcast; no chamber, no echo.

ANIMALS HAVE NO CONSCIOUSNESS

Silence.

“I never get tired of the blue sky”

Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo

don’t even get me started on the bearded man sitting at a desk with a coffee mug inexplicably held in the air. I would rather shove a nuke up my pussy

good audio Bros™️ on YouTube cringe me out so much like Nerdwriter1 gets a pass because he basically invented the speech style but everyone else with a baritone and a subtle vocal fry and a faux informality can eat my vom

I can really see myself falling in love with physics later on in life, in that Dad-in-a-shed type way, doctorate at 64 type way, homemade warpdrive type way. Whichever way differs most from high school trauma and the unspiriting shadows of A-level mark schemes

Bluesky needs drafts. what am I supposed to do, have a cohesive thought in one sitting?

there’s a sort of warrior confidence to the timid boyfriend in such scenarios, like, you just *know* he fucks, and doesn’t have to front a single thing irl because she knows and that’s enough

nothing is hotter to me than the “excuse me, he asked for no pickles” meme: fiery women going to bat for their timid boyfriends will forever restore my passions for mankind

follow me for the fieriest wrecks on here

If individual posts on Twitter are “tweets” what are these?

“Clouds”, “rains”, “winds”, “stars”?

I think I like “flights”

Every post a rise, a fall, an arc, a landing (a crash, a wreck?)

decided that Bluesky is the forum wherein I shall proselytize the Philly CR meet up in late June. We need more Rationalist, EA, tpot, e/acc, post rat, meta rat, futurist, normie smart people in attendance to have fun & talk INTERESTINGS https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-rat-fest-tickets-387125692367

Like it’s one of those sci-fi readjustments that 850 million people—A NO TIME AGO, IN A GALAXY NEAR, NEAR, AROUND—have lived their entire lives under and that’s wild

I’ve been living in the southern hemisphere for 6+ months and I still cannot wrap my head around the whole north = hotter thing