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What would you do if you thought the world was going to end? How would you live? That’s the question Adri, Kelsey, and I have been asking ourselves. I’ve been really existentially depressed lately and thought I should finally talk publicly about it. Why have I been depressed? I think humanity is going to be …
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These are my notes on Robert McIntyre’s talk at the Long Now Foundation: Engram Preservation: Early Work Towards Mind Uploading | Robert McIntyre I stumbled across the Long Now Foundation back in 2011 and heard about their 10,000 year clock, a project to design a clock to keep time for 10,000 years (and bring media …
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Imagine you’re at the tail end of a business meeting at a restaurant. Your plate is still 2/3 full since you didn’t get to eat as much as you wanted because you were too busy answering questions. (That’s a problem for a different post.) The check comes. “I’ve got it, Jim!” “No, Bob. Let me!” …
Intro Recently went to a talk from Vinay Gupta. Slides are here. I usually find most speakers disappointing in that their ideas aren’t really crisp, and/or too virtue-signally or hand-wavy. I was pleasantly surprised. It reminded me how much I respect how engineers think — first principles, clean slate, “how do we build this efficiently?” …