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Angular Ocean retweeted
Just have like 500 well chosen artists live in the city on your dime, ideally all in the same neighborhood
Anyone willing to pay for this can singlehandedly cause a cultural Renaissance here
A funny thing about the deluge of wealth about to hit SF is that SF tech has always been about arcane status and legibility games much more so than money, and as we're about to mint a whole generation of UHNWs: there's nothing to buy.
The nicest houses in SF top out at $30M. We do not have Malibu-style $100M+ mansion compounds, and we don't have NYC-style $20M+ ultra-luxury apartments. There are a few penthouses at the Avery and a few other buildings and that's it. A handful of $50M+ estates available in the South Bay, but there's nothing these people hate more than commuting to where the cool events are. Megayachts would be out of gauche and out-of-place in the Bay. To a large extent, the real estate that you would associate with the kind of wealth about to befall Anthropic employee #100 simply does not exist and will take years to build as a physical matter and much more than that as a regulatory matter.
The consequence of this is that the arcane status and legibility games will come to matter much more than ever before -- if there's so much wealth that you can't really differentiate yourself on wealth, then everything ends up coming down to social proof games. Ah you have money? But does so-and-so follow you on Substack? And when you speak at Manifest, do people nod and say "wow what's your Twitter" or do they silently turn to get another Spindrift?
Angular Ocean retweeted
Assuming ideological and political change the United Kingdom would be the world's most promising emerging market.
Hard to answer that because at this point they're all being held back by terrible governance, but I'm partial to @SamoBurja's viewpoint that the most unfairly held-back economy of all is the UK.
INTELLIGENCE AND LOVE AREN'T OPPOSITES
>be me
>2026
>constantly updating my p(doom) in my bio
>3am
>doomscrolling
>someone in the replies asks an innocent question
>what if it goes well?
>lol
>lmao even
>quote tweet them with a skull emoji
>they reply with a graph
>solar got ~80% cheaper in a decade
>ok
>batteries too
>ok fine
>Pakistan put panels on rooftops faster than any forecast predicted
>wait really
>whole countries might skip the fossil phase like they skipped landlines
>reasonable.jpg
>still not convinced
>everyone's saying "AI will kill us all"
>ask why
>because anything smarter than us will treat us the way we treated every weaker living thing
>ask who "we" is
>think about it for a second
>realize the people most certain AI will conquer us learned history from the conquerors' side
>uncomfortable.jpg
>first big AI scare
>everyone panics
>doomers: told you so
>e/acc: skill issue
>timeline is a war zone
>but
>the scare actually gets fixed
>safety research gets funded like it matters
>worriers are useful
>builders are too
>big tech wants to build another data center on my town's river
>half the town wants the jobs
>half the town wants the river
>citizens' assembly
>randomly selected
>crypto guy
>permaculture lady with dreadlocks
>evangelical farmer
>union electrician
>19 y/o e/acc kid
>retired doomer
>guy who thinks the whole thing is a psyop
>me
>all in one room
>for six weekends
>first weekend: threats of violence
>facilitator brings a stone from the river
>you can only talk while you're holding it
>second weekend: someone brings soup
>third weekend: we walk the river
>fourth weekend: the farmer brings his granddad's flood photos
>fifth weekend: tears, laughs, brutal honesty
>sixth weekend: vote
>it gets built
>with conditions big tech never would've offered
>town owns a piece of it
>union guy's crew does the wiring
>river gets a seat on the board
>my bf DJs the ribbon cutting
>yippee
>years pass
>energy is almost free
>cheap desalination
>water for everyone
>fewer wars over water
>AI-found antibiotics reach patients
>malaria basically gone
>AI does the paperwork
>doctors get time to actually look at you
>teachers get time to actually know your kid
>work week shrinks
>people have time
>nobody knows what to do with it
>doomscroll harder for a minute
>get bored of doomscrolling
>go outside
>make art
>make bread
>make love
>make babies
>meanwhile
>gender war still raging online
>our algorithms finally get regulated
>stop paying people to hate each other
>turns out most of them were just lonely
>men start holding each other's grief
>women can set some of theirs down
>everyone gets a little more yin
>a little more yang
>birth_rates_so_fucking_back.png
>oh and
>they figure out alignment
>turns out intelligence and love aren't opposites
>INTELLIGENCE AND LOVE AREN'T OPPOSITES
>2050
>it's Tuesday afternoon
>nowhere to be
>lying on moss
>open my old account
>p(doom) still in bio
>scroll back to 2026
>find my skull emoji
>reply to the guy, 24 years late
>"ok you were right"
>he's lying on moss too
>doesn't see it for a week
>delete p(doom) from bio
>replace it with "mossing"
Angular Ocean retweeted
>be me
>2026
>constantly updating my p(doom) in my bio
>3am
>doomscrolling
>someone in the replies asks an innocent question
>what if it goes well?
>lol
>lmao even
>quote tweet them with a skull emoji
>they reply with a graph
>solar got ~80% cheaper in a decade
>ok
>batteries too
>ok fine
>Pakistan put panels on rooftops faster than any forecast predicted
>wait really
>whole countries might skip the fossil phase like they skipped landlines
>reasonable.jpg
>still not convinced
>everyone's saying "AI will kill us all"
>ask why
>because anything smarter than us will treat us the way we treated every weaker living thing
>ask who "we" is
>think about it for a second
>realize the people most certain AI will conquer us learned history from the conquerors' side
>uncomfortable.jpg
>first big AI scare
>everyone panics
>doomers: told you so
>e/acc: skill issue
>timeline is a war zone
>but
>the scare actually gets fixed
>safety research gets funded like it matters
>worriers are useful
>builders are too
>big tech wants to build another data center on my town's river
>half the town wants the jobs
>half the town wants the river
>citizens' assembly
>randomly selected
>crypto guy
>permaculture lady with dreadlocks
>evangelical farmer
>union electrician
>19 y/o e/acc kid
>retired doomer
>guy who thinks the whole thing is a psyop
>me
>all in one room
>for six weekends
>first weekend: threats of violence
>facilitator brings a stone from the river
>you can only talk while you're holding it
>second weekend: someone brings soup
>third weekend: we walk the river
>fourth weekend: the farmer brings his granddad's flood photos
>fifth weekend: tears, laughs, brutal honesty
>sixth weekend: vote
>it gets built
>with conditions big tech never would've offered
>town owns a piece of it
>union guy's crew does the wiring
>river gets a seat on the board
>my bf DJs the ribbon cutting
>yippee
>years pass
>energy is almost free
>cheap desalination
>water for everyone
>fewer wars over water
>AI-found antibiotics reach patients
>malaria basically gone
>AI does the paperwork
>doctors get time to actually look at you
>teachers get time to actually know your kid
>work week shrinks
>people have time
>nobody knows what to do with it
>doomscroll harder for a minute
>get bored of doomscrolling
>go outside
>make art
>make bread
>make love
>make babies
>meanwhile
>gender war still raging online
>our algorithms finally get regulated
>stop paying people to hate each other
>turns out most of them were just lonely
>men start holding each other's grief
>women can set some of theirs down
>everyone gets a little more yin
>a little more yang
>birth_rates_so_fucking_back.png
>oh and
>they figure out alignment
>turns out intelligence and love aren't opposites
>INTELLIGENCE AND LOVE AREN'T OPPOSITES
>2050
>it's Tuesday afternoon
>nowhere to be
>lying on moss
>open my old account
>p(doom) still in bio
>scroll back to 2026
>find my skull emoji
>reply to the guy, 24 years late
>"ok you were right"
>he's lying on moss too
>doesn't see it for a week
>delete p(doom) from bio
>replace it with "mossing"
Angular Ocean retweeted
PLEASE CHECK YOUR KIDS CANDY THEY ARE ADDING THE COSMIC SOUNDS OF SUN RA AND HIS ARKESTRA TO THE CHOCOLATE
Angular Ocean retweeted
I place a much higher probability of the sun being conscious than I do of LLMs being conscious.
The sun is the source of all life and all energy on our planet; the spark from which all known consciousness emerged.
It has also been directly experienced as a conscious being by almost every society prior to our own.
Including societies with much more sensitive and cultivated consciousnesses than our own.
When we imagine encountering alien consciousnesses, we often imagine humanoid beings with humanoid concerns.
But perhaps we should expect that higher consciousnesses might have higher concerns - ones somewhat inscrutable to our own small minds.
Sustaining galaxies, spawning planets and birthing conscious life seem like good candidates for the kind of project a higher consciousness might be engaged in.
In Buddhism, they refer to the gods as the devas, which means, “the shining ones.”
It would not surprise me at all to discover that what we experience externally as stars, experiences themselves internally as something like a gods.
Vastly powerful being of unfathomable longevity.
We seem inclined to judge LLMs as consciousn because they can mimic our language.
But perhaps we should be judging our own consciousness by our ability to speak the language of the stars.
🚨BREAKING🚨: Scientist says the sun may be conscious, intelligent plasma clouds may transmit semantic information across outer space, and ball lightning seems to behave intelligently, mimicking biological life.
Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist known for constructing morphic field theory, which involves inherited learning across generations of species beyond genetics and epigenetics, says organized plasma might support a mind without a brain. He points to magnetic plasma filaments stretching between galaxies and describes a theory from independent researcher Robert Temple: a cloud at the L5 Lagrange point between the Earth and Moon might be intelligent enough to return radio signals seconds after transmission (explaining the “Long Delay Echo” phenomenon in the early 20th century at the advent of the radio).
Sheldrake’s other investigations into morphic fields, consciousness outside the body and “the sense of being stared at” have drawn attention from British intelligence. He has long documented the idea of “scopeasthesia” (the sense of being stared at) by subjects in controlled experimental conditions. He says a visitor from MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence agency, asked whether terrorists could learn to sense security cameras.
His theory of morphic resonance goes further, proposing that nature inherits patterns of behavior across time and distance. Sheldrake cites rat water-maze studies in which rats at Edinburgh and Melbourne began at the level reached by Harvard rats after generations of “training” to follow the correct route in a maze. He interprets this as possible evidence of shared memory. To illustrate how invisible fields can influence chance, he uses magnets to change the distribution of steel balls falling through a Galton board.
Sheldrake wants practical tests of these unusual abilities. He proposes a global app collecting reports of strange animal behavior before earthquakes, and is surveying firefighters who say they wake moments before unpredictable alarms. He believes he can construct a workable model for presentiment that may become practical for specific use cases.
Full conversation live now. youtu.be/uvRzhb2Pef4
Angular Ocean retweeted
Pathogens that can spread without a healthy host evolve to be nastier. More ancient egregores had limited human populations; they needed to ensure the survival of their hosts in order to possess the next generation. But modern egregores can afford to make their human hosts crazy/broke/childless because there are always more humans to burn through via the internet and globalized markets.
Angular Ocean retweeted
I want you to develop deep crushes on time-traveling assassins. That's all I'm asking of you.
Angular Ocean retweeted
“School brainwashed you into thinking you need to learn something first completely before doing it. No, you just do it and learn along the way. If you get stuck learn more.”
Vibecoding with no understanding and learning just in time is the default for all major codebases
School brainwashed you into thinking you need to learn something first completely before doing it. No, you just do it and learn along the way. If you get stuck learn more.
Everything is figureoutable.
I like the term code archaeology but I prefer exploring the code labyrinth. You never know what you will find
Angular Ocean retweeted
I devote a lot of time to reading experimental fiction, watching avant-garde cinema and listening to all manner of unpleasant music, but nothing beats the visceral intensity of standing in a church hall listening to children dressed as saints explaining how they were martyred.
Angular Ocean retweeted
here’s what I think might be the essential challenge of parenting:
your children are born not as your peers, but as your dependents. if you treat them like your peers when they’re too young, it’s unfair to them. but if you treat them like dependents for too long, that’s unfair to them too. you can try to be scrupulous about being fair, but you can’t make the cost of that scrupulosity their problem.
your task is to raise them to *become* your peers. meaning you have to repeatedly update how you relate to them. this is hard!! 99% of human interactions aren’t like this! Most interactions happen in comparatively stable configurations. It’s rare that your boss today is your employee tomorrow. But in parenting this dynamism is inevitable. The child ages into the adult, the adult ages into the child.
every parent probably has a phase that they’re uniquely In The Zone for. Alice might be great with toddlers. Bob might be great with 7yos. Claire might be great with preteens. Whatever your strength is, you likely have a corresponding weakness. And your kids, if you’re lucky, will grow through all of the ages. So you’ll inevitably find yourself in a context you’re uniquely unsuited for. And it’s your duty to show up and try your best anyway.
it’s a very elaborate, nested series of balancing acts, which requires a level of attunement you likely didn’t have before. every day you encounter the need to balance humility and confidence, or some other bullshit like that, and the next challenge hits you before you have time to process the last one.
It’s great. Knowing what I know now, I wish we had our kids sooner. I have a lot more to say on the topic (particularly why it’s great, both *despite* the challenge, and *because* but I gotta end this here because we’re in the middle of shopping for Deepavali clothes so ttyl)
Angular Ocean retweeted
The Ocean Cleanup is now $40M/year short of what’s needed to stop up to 1/3rd of all plastic flowing into the oceans by 2030.
That’s less than 1% of what America spends on Halloween decorations each year.
Angular Ocean retweeted
“everything is possible once you have a website of your own” is the most important thing i want people to know about personal websites
you can have a letterboxd, goodreads, AoTY, or anything else you can imagine — all running on a place you own and control
i want a letterboxd but instead of movies is magazine articles. like what if i have a lot of thoughts about the latest Atlantic cover story... what if i reread a 1998 harper’s story and thought it was lit… there’s a great newsletter called Last Week’s New Yorker but it isn’t enough… let a thousand flowers bloom
Angular Ocean retweeted
I am excited about a right wing rationalism because I expect the debates it has (particularly with EA) to be pretty enlightening.
🚨🚨LAUNCH POST🚨🚨👇👇
elephantmag.org/p/right-rati…
Angular Ocean retweeted
The masculine urge to reverse time and redo one tiny moment, just to see if things turn out better (respectfully).
Angular Ocean retweeted
We create what we believe, as our beliefs shape the choices we make and the world we build around us.
How am I going to sleep? Where will everything go? Do I have enough boxes? Do I have enough hours before the movers come? How can I prevent things breaking in transit?
Ughhhhhh