2/ will not price economic or commercial activity in abstractions like dollars or euros, we will price everything in energy and we will make transactions in that energy based price.

A significant reason for this is the second most important part of the tech stack, which also isn't data centers.

1/ Low-latency localized energy generation + local flexible energy storage, that can be converted to electricity, heat, or mechanical motion on demand, is the most important part of the tech stack. (and it's not for data centers, although those will of course be involved).

In the future we

The progress in FPV & autonomous drones / autonomous wingmen / exoskeletons / heads up displays & more this past decade is astounding.

Adults today are building, living, and dying, by machines imagined in games of their childhoods like command and conquer, star craft, halo, or tv shows like gundam.

The word ”Kernel“ just might provide the most obvious example for why natural language is used by humans with inadequate fidelity to build (or even be the most foundational data of) the final form of ASI.

9/9 And from time to time do the above exercises for different ages and different decades: it will improve your life and relationships in many many ways.

8/ Living memory is more foundational than all of those factors, and determines how those same factors can be utterly different between two humans who still breath the same air together.

Think about living memory. Understand it deeply.

7/ constrains the specific interactions each person directly has, the only 1st person interaction experiences that person can directly use as a reference.

I think about living memory before immigration status, before sex, before race, before nationality, etc etc.

6/ people who were 16 in 2000, or 1990, or even 2020.

Living memory has a HUGE impact on what’s people know, and what they think, and even what words mean (the same word can have literal opposite meaning) all because of how living memory

5/ finishing college at the height of meeToo to culminating with the pandemic lockdowns and so so much more.

It’s amazing how different the living memory of that person is than

4/ Think about how much life a gal or guy of that age never saw, experiences he or she never had. And think about what experiences their living memory would have had age 16-26, 2010-2020 from

3/ the internet and Google maps and Facebook were always there, you don’t know life without them.

The first black president is president, you cannot really remember in any meaningful way a world where there wasn’t a first black president.

2/ For this version let’s place our 16 year old in 2010. Your early childhood memories had tough economic days and a lot of talk about a war in Iraq. You don’t really remember when any of that started, it’s always been there.

Cell phones have always been common place,

Living memory is one of the most important concepts that we never talk about.

This is an exercise that is helpful to get grounded in it.

Imagine a 16 year old and place that person at the start of a decade.

3/Those that don’t, or who focus on LLM generated “synthetic data” will continue to burn resources on incremental performance improvements.

2/The race to make observations and record those observations as data (abstractly represented symbolically, *not* in natural human language) is on.

The teams and companies that shift their spend of matter, energy, and attention to that task of interaction+data recording will achieve takeoff.

Joshua on X: "Data produced by interacting with synthetic models of reality is different and distinct from data this is observed and collected about reality by synthetic means. Grasping + truly understanding this distinction closes the gap between where we are today and the ASI singularity." / X Data produced by interacting with synthetic models of reality is different and distinct from data this is observed and collected about reality by synthetic means. Grasping + truly understanding this distinction closes the gap between where we are today and the ASI singularity.

1/ The scaling laws have not plateaued. The models are still capable of modeling and producing better outputs under current architectures. (Even though yes there certainly are significant architectural improvements ahead as well)

x.com/joshuadnelso...

4/The time to prepare is now. Focus on the "state of being."

3/What the vast majority of humans think of as rules are not rules. What the vast majority think can be made rules by governments or corporations can't be rules.

It will be a harsh awakening.

2/The approaching situation driven by the leaps and bounds of improvement in AI automation will lay bare the centrality and immutability of the laws of physics as they relate to states of being in a way that will make many of our past arguments / policy discussions seem quaint at best.

1/"Asserting a rule" and "actually enforcing a state of being" are completely different things.

Very often the "rules" people assert lead to vastly different, and varyingly stable, "states of being" than the people issuing the rules intended or even comprehended.

YouTube video by Putchuon - "Put You On" The Prompt Theory: 4 Minutes Straight of Google Veo Prompts

It took longer for someone to put together a video like this than I thought, assumed it would have been posted on day 1 of veo3 haha.

Mechanism of creation vs meaning of creation.

Feels deep, but it's the oldest conversation, ongoing

youtu.be/BLfV4sidcJM?...

The future is dead, long live the future.

(This is raw joshua, no AI involved, other than as the central topic) /fin

Everything that you could previously assume to ground yourself in reality no longer applies.

The world is new. The world is wild. The world is unsafe and terrifying.

This is a moment of inflection bounded by both growing danger and massive opportunity.

Everything is accelerating.

Rather than retirement, pursue the state of being where one achieves independent agency and ability to act towards whatever goal one sets.

the Greek or Roman or Norse pantheons. A huge power differential vs humans /fin

entirety of collective humanity and eventual AI, and the difference between eventual AI and God - crudely described by the rough abstractions of this natural language sentence - literally cannot be properly expressed via this medium.

That said, AI will be "godlike" in the sense of

AI will be infinitely more powerful than the collective cognition of our entire human civilization, but because it is still constrained by the laws of physics, will remain infinitely less powerful than God.

The utter scale of difference between the

AI cannot be God. Why? God is the being with the discretion to set and change the laws of physics from outside of reality.

AI, eventually, will be the most powerful version of intelligence that can operate with discretion while still constrained by the laws of physics of reality.

Replacing human intelligence with machine intelligence will be the most noble and greatest outcome human intelligence ever accomplishes

that makes who and what he conceives of as "America" today foreign for him - no matter how frequently he might briefly visit.

This is not a bad or a good thing, rather it is a real thing that must be accounted for to have an accurate understanding of reality. /fin