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of all the beautiful salmon, the most remarkable is the jack. this one stays in the river when all its brothers and sisters travel out to sea to feed for a few years. when the big ones come back to their home rivers, he is right there, waiting for them. because rivers don’t have nearly the food that the ocean does, jack is just a handful in size, whereas the ocean goers grow to huge size, sometimes even more than fifty pounds. poor jack gets pushed around and very rarely passes on the genes.
even less often than a blue moon, jack comes to rescue. perhaps there is a landslide that blocks the rivers’ mouth. perhaps there is a calamity at sea, and no one returns.
at times like these, when the same old same old has petered out; the jacks get together with each other. they have all the same genetics as their mighty cousins, even though they are no larger than a trout. the reason they are jacks is because they stayed in the river when everyone else left. and they breed like there is no tomorrow.
their offspring grow back into the huge chinooks. the run continues. the sub species saved.
from just looking at one, it would be impossible to know why the jacks stayed behind; what unplanned misadventures might befall the sea run hordes; and how important jacks really are.
even less often than a blue moon, jack comes to rescue. perhaps there is a landslide that blocks the rivers’ mouth. perhaps there is a calamity at sea, and no one returns.
at times like these, when the same old same old has petered out; the jacks get together with each other. they have all the same genetics as their mighty cousins, even though they are no larger than a trout. the reason they are jacks is because they stayed in the river when everyone else left. and they breed like there is no tomorrow.
their offspring grow back into the huge chinooks. the run continues. the sub species saved.
from just looking at one, it would be impossible to know why the jacks stayed behind; what unplanned misadventures might befall the sea run hordes; and how important jacks really are.
i wonder if all these polygenic neurodivergence traits are ancestral population-level controls for responding to stressful and changing environments
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i wonder if all these polygenic neurodivergence traits are ancestral population-level controls for responding to stressful and changing environments
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i'm imagining that fairly coarse-grained neuromodulation genes that are vulnerable to disruption could be a basis for this. i don't know what i'm talking about though. i have to check the research.
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steven retweeted
“The Transition”: the period of time during which the global economy and social structure will be reinvented as a result of SI. 2027-2032. it will be rough.
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Having thought about UBI for the past few years and watching what AI is doing to the economy:
I think a reinvented jobs programs should be primary source of income rather than getting a majority of income from UBI. You get an identity, social group, and responsiblity with a job. These ways of organizing a life and finding vocation aren't replaced with UBI.
I imagine hiring mission driven orgs could compete for grants to beautify, educate, build, and inquire.
These missions could be as simple could be as simple as cleaning the streets, but they could also be for maintain different culutures--like craft, building or manufactuing cultures, or music and the arts, or scientific inquiry that serves simple human curiousity.
It would need a feedback system to work well and it probably makes sense to have grants from the level of the neighborhood all the way up to the national level.
If we get UBI, the predictable alternative seems like commerical competition for the marginal dollars at scale. This would amount to klarna burrios and algorithmic circuses.
The big question for this transitional era is: how will people respond when their consequential economic participation in society has ended and what comes next?
I think a reinvented jobs programs should be primary source of income rather than getting a majority of income from UBI. You get an identity, social group, and responsiblity with a job. These ways of organizing a life and finding vocation aren't replaced with UBI.
I imagine hiring mission driven orgs could compete for grants to beautify, educate, build, and inquire.
These missions could be as simple could be as simple as cleaning the streets, but they could also be for maintain different culutures--like craft, building or manufactuing cultures, or music and the arts, or scientific inquiry that serves simple human curiousity.
It would need a feedback system to work well and it probably makes sense to have grants from the level of the neighborhood all the way up to the national level.
If we get UBI, the predictable alternative seems like commerical competition for the marginal dollars at scale. This would amount to klarna burrios and algorithmic circuses.
The big question for this transitional era is: how will people respond when their consequential economic participation in society has ended and what comes next?
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steven retweeted
I asked Claude: "What types of businesses outside of the labs will get stronger as raw intelligence explodes?"
Honestly, spot on response.
Honestly, spot on response.
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steven retweeted
Just got a phishing email that Gmail authenticated as Google. DKIM/DMARC passed. I can see a lot of people falling for this one, since it plays to the idea that your account has already been compromised.
Scammer puts the scam in an app-password name, triggers a real Google e alert email to your email address.
How this attack works, and why it’s convincing:
1. The trick: The attacker puts the threatening text and shortened URL into an app password’s customizable name on another account. Google incorporates that text into a real security notification and signs the email.
2. The delivery: That notification is forwarded through another mailbox to the victim. In this message, Gmail still recorded passing Google DKIM and DMARC authentication.
3. What makes it convincing: The Google sender, signature, branding, and “Check activity” button are legitimate. The suspected attacker-supplied text appears inside the same trusted-looking template, using a deadline to push you toward its separate link.
4. The giveaway: Both the notification and its genuine Google button refer to someone else’s account. The “permanent access after 24 hours” claim is false; app passwords can be revoked.
Be careful out there folks!
Scammer puts the scam in an app-password name, triggers a real Google e alert email to your email address.
How this attack works, and why it’s convincing:
1. The trick: The attacker puts the threatening text and shortened URL into an app password’s customizable name on another account. Google incorporates that text into a real security notification and signs the email.
2. The delivery: That notification is forwarded through another mailbox to the victim. In this message, Gmail still recorded passing Google DKIM and DMARC authentication.
3. What makes it convincing: The Google sender, signature, branding, and “Check activity” button are legitimate. The suspected attacker-supplied text appears inside the same trusted-looking template, using a deadline to push you toward its separate link.
4. The giveaway: Both the notification and its genuine Google button refer to someone else’s account. The “permanent access after 24 hours” claim is false; app passwords can be revoked.
Be careful out there folks!
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or its split -- dual income professional house holds are doing good/fine, theres many who didn't have this launch into fully endowed adulthood, relationship/responsibility/financial independence, and i do not think they are doing fine
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steven retweeted
there are people who inherited secure attachment effortlessly, and there are people who built it by painful step-by-step reconstruction, designing by feeling out the negative space of what was missing
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steven retweeted
Machines are tools, not persons. Today, some propose granting these systems rights, or even legal personhood. Such an approach risks obscuring human responsibility and leaving those who suffer harm to confront a faceless entity.
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steven retweeted
a "software factory" might be the thing i least desire to use LLMs for. i want a semantic workbench for supercharging artisanal software production. i want maximum leverage, not maximal throughput.
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steven retweeted
L6N5401-0.75 seems to be the 'DJ neuron' - it puts everything into the context of a DJ set
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It's a good filter for what I actually care about.
@RizomaSchool it costs me $100+ to leave the house by myself
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steven retweeted
doctor: “your son, i’m afraid he has adhd”
mom: “oh my god. what does that mean?”
doctor: “he will be chronically online and have 37 hobbies, but also be good at none of them”
mom: “that’s horrible! is there a cure?”
doctor: “well we can give him a small amounts of lab grade meth every day”
mom: “oh my god. what does that mean?”
doctor: “he will be chronically online and have 37 hobbies, but also be good at none of them”
mom: “that’s horrible! is there a cure?”
doctor: “well we can give him a small amounts of lab grade meth every day”
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