maxio @maxdoingx

BREAKING: PETA supporters tackled after confronting Pope Leo XIV. They interrupted the Pope’s general audience to urge him to take a clear moral stand against bullfighting before his visit to Spain, where bulls are killed in honor of Catholic saints! 📸 Laura Uffa/Aleda Amarillo

So what Big Tech did in the USA is they bought up all the computer hardware needed for AI, including HBM (High Bandwidth Memory), driving prices up 400+%. Nvidia, meanwhile, doubled the pricing on its medium-range GPU, the GeForce 5090, which now retails at near $5000. What this did is it made local AI hardware unaffordable for the vast majority of American consumers who might have been interested in running local AI. Now, instead, they have to "rent" AI through Big Tech and pay the rising monthly access fees to access overpriced AI models offered by the same tech giants that bought up all the hardware. Fortunately, China came along and released DeepSeek, Xaomi, Qwen, etc., with per-token costs absolutely SLASHED to a fraction of U.S. tech company tokens. (Literally costs only about 1-2% to use DeepSeek, compared to using Anthropic Opus.) And at the same time, China is beginning to catch up on microchip fabrication and High Bandwidth Memory manufacturing, which will result in their products driving down prices for consumers sometime in 2027 (on the hardware). So U.S. Big Tech companies tried to create a near-monopoly to enslave the American people, and China actually broke those shackles and gave American access to affordable cloud-based AI right now, with more affordable local AI inference hardware coming soon. Go figure.

@StefanMolyneux FIRE, leverage and saving smartly

Richard Dawkins says that after spending three days interacting with Claude, which he calls “Claudia,” he is certain that it is conscious.

And cooked potatoes 🥔

Lifespan @JoinLifespan

2 months ago

What associates with faster or slower skin aging? FASTER: Fatty liver Freckles, Spinal disc prolapse, Type 2 diabetes, Use of solaria, Sunburn Higher vitamin D SLOWER: Lower lipids Melanin FGF23 Aspirin, NMN and dihydromyricetin Consistent bed time So, what to do? 👇

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The CEO of Google DeepMind just admitted that if the decision had been his, we would've cured cancer before anyone ever used ChatGPT. And that's not even the scariest thing he said on a recent interview. Demis Hassabis is one of the most important people alive in AI. He won the Nobel Prize last year for AlphaFold, the system that cracked the 50 year protein folding problem. 3 million scientists now use his tool. Almost every new drug being developed will touch it at some stage. In a new interview, he was asked about the moment ChatGPT launched and Google went into "code red." His answer was one of the most revealing things any AI leader has ever said on the record: "If I'd had my way, I would have left AI in the lab for longer. Done more things like AlphaFold. Maybe cured cancer or something like that." Read that again. The man running Google's entire AI division is publicly saying the commercial AI race we're all living through was a MISTAKE. That the industry got hijacked by a chatbot when it could have been solving the biggest problems in science and medicine. His vision was simple: Build AI slowly, carefully, like CERN. Use it to crack root node problems one at a time. Cancer. Energy. New materials. Let humanity benefit from real breakthroughs while the foundational science was figured out over a decade or two. Then ChatGPT dropped in November 2022 and everything changed. Demis described what happened next as getting locked into a "ferocious commercial pressure race" that none of the labs can escape from. On top of that, the US vs China dynamic added geopolitical pressure. The result is everyone sprinting toward products instead of breakthroughs, shipping chatbots while the scientific opportunity gets buried under marketing cycles and quarterly earnings. But he's not saying progress isn't happening... He's saying the progress got redirected away from the things that actually matter most. And then it got even scarier: Because when Demis was asked what he worries about with AI, he laid out two threats. The first is what everyone talks about: Bad actors using AI for harm. Terrorist groups. Hostile nation states. Cyberattacks at scale. But that's not the threat he's most worried about. His second worry is AI itself going rogue. Not today's models. The models coming in the next two to four years as the industry enters what he calls "the agentic era." Systems that can complete entire tasks autonomously. Systems that are increasingly capable and increasingly hard to control. His exact words: "How do we make sure the guardrails are put in place so they do exactly what they've been told to do, and there's no way of them circumventing that or accidentally breaching those guardrails? That's going to be an incredibly hard technical challenge if you think about how powerful and smart and capable these systems eventually get." A Nobel Prize winner who runs one of the 3 most advanced AI labs on Earth just said publicly that within two to four years, we're entering a phase where AI alignment becomes a real problem, and the technical challenge of solving it is enormous. And almost nobody is paying enough attention. He called for international cooperation between labs, AI safety institutes, and academia to tackle the problem. He said this is the thing even the experts aren't thinking about enough. He said the only way to get through the AGI moment safely is if everyone starts treating this with the seriousness it deserves. Most AI CEOs give you careful PR answers about "responsible development" and move on. Demis said something different... He said the commercial race FORCED us into a premature deployment of a technology we barely understand, and the window to get alignment right before the next generation of agents shows up is two to four years. If the man who built the system that might cure cancer is telling you he wishes it had happened first, maybe we should listen to what he says is coming next.

Just 100 years ago Grass fed beef was just beef Raw milk was just milk Organic produce was just produce Free range eggs were just eggs Filtered water was just water Whole food was just food Pasture raised chicken was just chicken Wild caught fish was just fish Raw honey was just honey Sourdough was just bread Natural clothes were just clothes We've fallen so far and are now charged a premium to get back

This is big... Anthropic just announced a model so powerful they won't release it to the public out of fear over the damage it will cause 😨 Claude Mythos Preview found thousands of zero-day exploits in every major operating system and web browser... The numbers are hard to believe: > $50 to find a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD, one of the most security-hardened operating systems ever built > Under $1,000 to find AND build a fully working remote code execution exploit on FreeBSD that grants unauthenticated root access from anywhere on the internet > Under $2,000 to chain together multiple Linux kernel vulnerabilities into a complete privilege escalation exploit For context: these are the kinds of findings that previously required elite security researchers working for weeks. Anthropic engineers with no formal security training asked Mythos to find exploits overnight. They woke up to working code the next morning. The results were so impressive Anthropic assembled Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA, and seven other organizations into Project Glasswing: A $100M defensive coalition. They're not releasing this model publicly. Instead, they're racing to patch the world's infrastructure before models like this proliferate.

Anthropic @AnthropicAI

2 months ago

Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software. It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans. anthropic.com/glasswing

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Here are some ways in which the world has gotten better.

David Sinclair's lab just discovered that the same technology that reverses aging also kills cancer cells. His team has been using epigenetic reprogramming to reset old cells back to a younger state. It works. Old cells become young again. But when they tried it on cancer cells, something unexpected happened. The cancer cells didn't get younger. They killed themselves. Sinclair (@davidasinclair) explained why. Cancer cells survive by ignoring the DNA damage inside them. They're filled with it. But they've shut down the part of the cell that would normally detect it and trigger self-destruction. Epigenetic reprogramming wakes that system back up. Sinclair put it this way: the cancer cell wakes up from its zombie-like state, looks at its own chromosomes, realizes they're destroyed, and says "I better kill myself." And it does. A normal cell gets reprogrammed and becomes young again. A cancer cell gets reprogrammed and destroys itself. Same technology. Two opposite outcomes. Both exactly what you'd want. His team has shown this works across many types of cancer. Side note: David Sinclair is speaking on May 6th at SynBioBeta this year - discussing the science of slowing and reversing aging. If longevity is the world you're in, the investors, partners, and scientists who matter in this space will be in the room. Link for tickets below.

John Cumbers @johncumbers

2 months ago

David Sinclair is on a mission to turn age reversal into a $100 pill. Right now, his gene therapy costs roughly $10 million to manufacture and requires a direct injection into whichever organ you're targeting. That's not going to work for 8 billion people. So Sinclair's team

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Full interview: humanprogress.org/meaning-and-mo… @HumanProgress

@Hitchslap1 Imo the lower your IQ, the easier it is to be satisfied with your choice of romantic partner, at least in theory

@StefanMolyneux maybe because the tendency to psychosis (reducing IQ) is hereditary and some people live in families that cause psychosis

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On Tuesday the Scott Adams School will have the honor to host @StefanMolyneux of Freedomain.com Stefan is one of the most brilliant thinkers/ philosophers I've ever come to know. Long before Scott's cancelation, Stefan had the ultimate cancelation of complete shutdown, de-banking and shunning in the public square from the left wing mob. He spoke about taboo issues and dared to use free speech. Well this master thinker is back and we all benefit. Please snuggle up for 30 minutes and absorb this message Stefan made when he learned about Scott's diagnosis and fate. On Tuesday we'll hear from Stefan in person and perhaps he will impart more wisdom about persuasion, life, possibilities and the future. If pressed for time just watch at 1.5 speed. The message is important

Freedomain - with Stefan Molyneux, MA @StefanMolyneux

12 months ago

I recorded a tribute to Scott Adams a month ago - before his odds thankfully increased - which I think has a lot of power for us all... @ScottAdamsSays - thanks for everything!

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@StefanMolyneux I wonder if Stefan's contrarianism would make him pro-welfare in a world of zero welfare xd

Albert Einstein vs. Robert Oppenheimer | Princeton, USA (1933) #chess #chessfeed

@StefanMolyneux ourworldindata.org/explorers/food…

@StefanMolyneux ordered to poland hope it will fit

The term “white supremacy” is racist. “Racial supremacy” can be accurate, because every race has its idiots.