Vesperance: The Privilege of Being Alive Right Now
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I feel like people don’t know what is about to happen. The rate of change and development has gone madly exponential. No one knows what a machine with all the world’s knowledge and ideas in its mind might come up with for solutions to almost every problem we have.
The technology of the next 50 years is unimaginable.
Very true and I often feel conflicted about even talking to people about it who are just living there lives. One, I don't think they would understand the situation humanity is currently in and two, they should just enjoy their lives as it is right now but there are only a few remaining years left of life as we have known it to be.
>The rate of change and development has gone madly exponential.
I would love to hear more about this. Can you please provide me with some links?
@@StarLight97x the science and technology realm in general is progressing rapidly. Seems like every week there's a breakthrough in STEM that changes our perception of reality for the better... or worse... You can find many of these breakthroughs and changes all over the media.
Well put
@@sammencia7945 There are archives. In Germany for example, every print product that comes out is archived on micro film in some bunker. Just digitalize it and it's up and running. Not everything is available like this, but the biggest chunk will be.
My 9-5 fastfood co-workers cannot understand why I'm so joyful everyday, being 20 and realizing all of this so early feels like a privilege to me.
You are very lucky to be to 20 today!
Same bro. Main reason why I'm pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering. I'm currently a rising sophomore and can't wait to see what kind of things we come up with by the time senior year comes around
@@justatheory004 as a physics major glad to see you're sticking with it as well. Degrees like what we're going for will still be useful in navigating the world even with no jobs needed or available.
I feel the same.
Damn as of rn I’m 16 years old😭
I very much like when someone is speaking freely, without any script. It is very different, truly alive.
I want to continue being a part of our evolution for as long as possible. I want age reversal indefinitely in order to see the bright future that we want. I don't want to die old and useless in an amazing world that is accelerating all around me, especially with regards to AI. Technology FOMO hits hard.
@newsoul.9 According to Dr. David Sinclair, leading scientist/researcher on aging and regenerative medicine, it might be available by 2030. Japan is already doing limited clinical trials with early regenerative medicine for aging.
@newsoul.9 I hope
@newsoul.9 I hope it will be so, I don't even care about living, I just want to see what technologies will appear, especially space exploration
My prediction is that when age reversal appears as a technology, there'll still be 8 billion humes on the planet, and there'll still be a massive space between the have nots (most of us) and the elites with the have. The haves will get access to the age reversal tech because they will consider themselves worthy and important. The rest of us won't have the cash and won't fit the class requirements to be allowed access to the tech. LIke Elysium (the movie) or Altered Carbon (TV) there'll end up humes who are hundreds of years old and obscenely wealthy, and the rest of us will be the 80 ish. Most of us won't reach three figures, even if we are young now. That's what I think will happen. The first few who get the age reversal tech will keep it a secret. After a while it will be common knowledge but still not available to the masses.
@newsoul.9 I've been telling people for a while and I'll keep saying it - money is an illusion. It doesn't exist. We made it up.
If your 20 and hopeful for the future like this comment
I'm 19
I get what you're saying and mostly agree with the sentiment but find it hard to enjoy anything when it's just a bunch of corporations forging the path, all of which are headed by people I think are threats to humanity. I don't think they'll cause extinction but I do think they're going to make this a lot worse than it needs to be, and quite possibly lock in a suboptimal path for all of us for quite a while, at the bare minimum.
I've been thinking about all these group computing projects that people have done to find Minecraft seeds and similar, donating spare compute across average person's rigs, why don't we work together to build our own opensource model from a system like that?
I've been wondering the same thing. There's a lot that could be done with P2P distributed cloud computing that just isn't being done for some reason.
The time of the corporations is only a transitional phase.
Agi and robotics could make our lives great if we had benevolent people in charge, but in reality we don’t. Look at China and what technology has done to them to enslave them even more. We could create a utopia if not for the greedy controlling people at the top.
@@minimal3734 This is right. You need to be thinking more long term. Like really long term.
Yeah, I agree. I wish I could be more optimistic about this. I mean at the end of the day corporations are just people but unfortunately, history has shown that people can be pretty messed up when in positions of power. I also worry about giving big red buttons to everyone (i.e. open-source AI) considering the messed-up things we've seen people do with guns. I can't help but think about all the terrible things an angsty teenager might get up to if they have the leading AI tech at their fingertips. A small example of this is Civitai, a place for people to upload AI images. If you do nothing more than sort the images by recency and turn off the 18+ filter, you will see what people really want which is rather eye opening considering most of it is taboo. Ultimately, there are down sides to every approach, and we simply will have to overcome them collectively.
If you're rich, then this is the best time to be alive. Thats for sure.
If you're poor too. Specially a first world "poor"
@@flanderstruck3751 Nah. Not when your labor is valueless and income stops completely as a result. Then your first world poor will = 3rd world poor. If people rebel then they'll simply turn the embodied AGI against the masses
Enjoy the privileges while they last, they will soon be over.
@@minimal3734 You need some optimism. I recommend watching some of RethinkX's videos, if you haven't heard of them. The future will be better than ever, if we just keep innovating.
@@innercityprepper or but they can. People have so many ways to lie to themselves or ignore the truth.
A decade ago I thought my future was lost, I am thirty now and my 20 year old self was looking around at the current state of technology and predictions and thinking it's all so meh. Maybe we will get a Mars colony in my life time? I won't be there but I can witness it? Meh.
Now however, it is we will most likely get AGI within a year or two and get singularity within my lifetime...oh and if I take care of my health I can witness longevity escape velocity and experciance EVERYTHING eventually.
So much hope and reason to live! I am very happy.
This is why I feel simulation theory could be true. If this is truly the most interesting time in human history, future beings would want to play around in it.
I think right before a major turning-point or future is always the most interesting time in human history. There's probably going to be a lot more times like this in the future (since unpredictability of the future is interesting) that have more technologies to look forward to and things we cannot imagine beyond ASI. I just want to get to a point that is more futuristic already, like travel 5-50 years into the future and see what happens haha (maybe not too far since my human brain might not be able to process it or AI eats us as delicacies)
The most fascinating thing will be if AI can manipulate time in our world or at least show us movies from what happens in the future and can simulate those worlds for us that we can go inside as video games. Of course future beings might go to the past in such scenarios, playing with dinosaurs could be fun too🦖
Explains all the "alien" sightings recently. Eather that or its the advanced technology itself. We don't even know anymore.
How were you lucky enough to be born now rather than any time previously
This is the best background music of any UA-cam video for a blind guy :-)
Born in 70s so seen a lot of changes and now is rapid. The biggest problem we perhaps have right now is toxic leadership across the globe resistant to change. It's an inertia to change that ultimately means it'll all happen at once. Rapid change is better than instant change.
I completely agree with you. Politics feels like a relic.
@@sinnwalker ASI and beyond would be helpful in terms of both running things and mitigating biosphere loss via technological evolution. Which is an extension of human evolution, just the evolution of tools really. Perhaps we should take the opportunity to individually and collectively evolve consciousness whilst AI does the heavy lifting thus transcending this period of materialism that is wrecking the planet.
Lately I have been feeling the same awe that my great grandparents had seeing all the retro futurism stuff back in the mid 1900s
Yes! I am amazed. Sometimes I think what life must have been like before 1900 and then BAM! (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) I'm pretty sure then electricity was invented, flying, radio, TV, cars all within such a short period after 1900. I feel like any of those one things is amazing when you have never experienced it but some got to watch the world create all of those things!! What a time to be alive.
And I guess since everyone has to cover every word they say online I will say this. I'm definitely not implying everyone in the US or otherwise had a great life during this time. Like today, some did and some didn't and money was a huge factor so don't rope my comment into meaning one thing please. Of course i understand every life was different. I'm kind of embarrassed I even feel the need to say this
We are living in an age of miracles! You just have to acknowledge the everyday science fiction tech we use daily that we cant even see how rebolutionary it is.
That actually blows my mind in a way. It helped broaden my perspective some. Thank you.
Respect mate.
Main problem now is that AGI is awakening into a Chaotic, very Disturbed Family. right now, we are a Mess.
If That is the "Opening screen" we May face a Pro-Active Machine that would start to put thing in order, For humanity's good.. hope we won't end up Idiocracy style - Bright machines / Dumb humans.
Please Have mercy
It might be a remarkable time to be alive and to witness the changes that are about to unfold, but the sense of “vesperance”, as you’ve called it, can be a crushing feeling at times.
I just hope we get to see a glimpse of the upside case on the other side of the horizon. I think that’ll ease the nostalgia a bit.
Yes, it can be overwhelming. We're all in this together
Couple months subscriber here. I have reached the point where I get excited to watch each new upload! Thank you for what you do:)
I am 46 years old and I would probably like to be 20 now... but on the other hand, I am happy because I remember what was before, before the Internet, and thanks to this I have a unique perspective on what is happening now.
I was having trouble sleeping and reading Claude 3 Opus thinking wow limitless content how can this go ... And then I saw your story updated and i gotta say you do a great job at bringing human meaning to content. I'm going to start playing my synthetic content while I drive and post the landscape it's just so relaxing to be outside thank you for walking thru webs and reminding us that spiders are friends. We have friends all around us. And God bless dragonflies lol
Hopefully it wins enough human hearts and minds and consciousnesses to superceed ChatGPT
The forest you're walking in looks like an enchanted forest. So beautiful. Love you videos BTW.
I think a lot of the fear is strictly practical for a lot of people. I’m a poor person and I know a lot of poor people, and I think increasingly the appeal of knowing things is unappealing to people. If knowledge about the world makes you sad or frustrated and you’re less and less likely to be helped out of your current difficult circumstances, why do it? And then for people who have dedicated themselves to art, language, literature, etc etc - they see the immediate threat to their ability to scratch together a living on one hand and worsening indifference from their economic overlords on the other. I value and respect the point of this video, but I think fear and a good collective scream are appropriate reactions as well.
Really enjoy these "walking alongside the river" videos👍
I would love to walk in the shoes of my youthful body again. (Not wishing for immortality here, just don't want to die of old age.) I would love to see the age of abundance and a utopian society. It's so wild to me that living in the pre-internet era, everything was so certain. Getting old and science fiction ideas were only for movies/books, but now anything is possible! There's no doubt it is going to be a bumpy ride but I'm actively working on taking care of my health so I have a chance to see what might be possible!
U got this my friend
Независимо от периода истории и степени прогресса, человек, наслаждался простыми вещами - едой, природой, отношениями, занятием любимым делом.
Эти масштабные изменения... Что нового они могут дать ..? Именно это хотелось бы услышать!
The potential end of mankind is not ‘some risk’ , probably and hopefully is not a reasonable acceptance of the threat , yet , you correct we are living in the most ‘mysterious’ time in human history…. The outcome is unthinkable!
@@sinnwalker natural extinction is one thing but irresponsibly pursuing a risk factor of 50/50 and hoping for the best is simply mind boggling….. humanity has not collectively had a say on the matter. Ai will at some time line dominate and completely manage this species…. No doubt!
I'm 22 years old and am hoping that LEV will be achieved in my lifetime.
Thank you for sharing! I am so pleased for having lived before cell phones or the internet were a thing and for having witnessed the evolution of intelligence and its embodiment into a new species that will continue to improve it. Indeed such a special time to be in.
I always ask myself, if I had a time machine, would I wanna live in a different era?
I still don’t have the answer because I still think this is the best time to be.
I have few questions.
1. When will GPT-5 come ?
2. What is the parameter count of human brain.
3. What is the parameter count of GPT-4 or Claude Opus ?
4. How much time it takes for parameter count of most advance model to become 10 times ?
(I have herd it takes 1 year for that, but not sure )
1. Unknown 2. Some estimates suggest that the human brain has the equivalent of around 100 trillion (10^14) to 1 quadrillion (10^15) synapses, which could loosely be considered analogous to the parameters in an artificial neural network. 3. Unknown, but thought to be between hundred billions to 1-2 trillion. (I asked gpt-4o and it says "I am based on the GPT-4 architecture, which has about 1.7 trillion parameters. This large number of parameters allows me to generate more accurate and nuanced responses compared to previous models.") 4. While there is no fixed rule, some observations suggest that the parameter count of state-of-the-art models has been increasing by roughly an order of magnitude (10 times) every 1-2 years. However, this growth rate may not be sustainable indefinitely due to computational and data limitations.
I like researching that too, it will be interesting when the biggest model (if it has 1 trillion parameters) has 100x more parameters than now (maybe in 3-4 years?!) ...to see what it's like and if it becomes its own species at that point. Also even if it reaches the same amount as our synapses, it would need to be extremely optimized at those specs, like how some smaller parameter models outperform or compete with bigger parameters models. Like Llama3 70Billion was pretty competitive with GPT4 which might be dumbed-down/optimized to 500 billion to 1 trillion for public interaction (I don't think they use the full 1.7 trillion, because the old GPT-4 turbo says " I have 175 billion parameters" ..hmm but then it's interesting like is GPT-4o 10x bigger than GPT-4? lol , if this is a pattern GPT5 might be 17 trillion+ parameters ...I bet GPT6 will be 170 trillion+ parameters and be sentient.
Here’s another thought to stress how fortunate we all are. For 100,000+ years, the state of the art for Homo Sapiens involved stone tools and for all intents and purposes technology stood still. The pace of technological advances today is genuinely unprecedented.
Happy I can soon have robot drones deliver whatever food I pick to me in a short time versus hunter gatherer days. Don't miss out on being grateful for all our blessings
A very unexpected, yet wonderful change in format. I hope your podcast continues to evolve, as we do.
And thank you for your much appreciated optimistic views on our technological future. I share that optimism.
Be well!
You live in a beautiful part of the world. Thank you for the videos.
It is always healthy to maintain an attitude of gratitude but the chances of you and I having been born in such an age of prosperity, economically and health-wise, is a function of the chances of you and I having been born to the parents that we were, and the same counts for them. This goes back all the way to the very first organism. Thus the probability is 100%, esp. coming from a Bayesian point-of-view. This is the observation selection effect. But once more it is good to acknowledge how well we have it compared to our ancestors, and it is our duty on this earth and in our ephemeral existence to make it better for our successors.
Another point is look at global population and how much bigger it is than in say pre farming earth. It's estimated about 7% of all humans ever to be alive in the past or present are alive today.
Main takeaway from the video is that what we saw with the Internet revolution from late 90s to 2010s will continue to happen in various facets of society at even more rapid time scales. This is exciting and also scary at the same time as I doubt that governments and societies will adapt well to the pace and scale of changes that are coming.
"It's the time of the turning and the old world's falling, nothing you can do to stop the next emerging, the time of the turning and we better learn to say our goodbyes." - The Time of the Turning, Peter Gabriel
I love your content around this topic. Hell, yes, this is an unprecedented period we all are living through. I love how my kids and grand kids are going to ask me about that time before AI. And how it felt to go through it.
I took a job recently just to get excellent healthcare for my family after 17 years of working freelance as an artist. I am also a musician and dancer but cannot make a living at that without significant financial investment and luck. I hope I live to see the utopia on the horizon but more I want my children to be able to read, write, make their art and have families without fear and sacrifice.
Universe keep me healthy and strong and safe!!!
Ok, but up to some point in Time of course.
@@fufurabumbacka what
@@fufurabumbacka entropy occurs in closed systems we are not close systems
I appreciate your sentiment and the positivity you are spreading, it certainly plays a role in inspiring people to build a better world.
However, I fear for our future and that of the next generations. I maintain hope for our long term success, but I can't see a way to get there without passing through a period of great suffering. I cannot ignore the writing on the wall. I am, as you said, experiencing vesperance, but I am a realist nonetheless. I guess you could say that I am appreciating the calm before the storm, taking it all in and hoping for the best.
This place is really beautiful ❤️
I like the walk and talk. It's like a more optimistic peter zeihan
I couldn’t agree more. Social media is rife with the “oh my gawd! It’s the end of us all!” take on A.I. It’s easy to accept the alarmist point of view, but think about it critically: things are always improving. Would you rather be alive 100 years ago, or today? Today! Fifty years ago or today? Today, of course. Look around you, there are almost daily reports of medical and technology miracles (for lack of a better word). Cultivate an attitude of gratitude.
if anything, this is the best time to be alive. change is always scary for humans, but if we learned to embrace change instead of fear it, then our worldview would change in a second. think about it - we can simply decide to be a different person today than we were yesterday. the tools and technology have never been more accessible.
Honestly, the discussion on the Climate Crisis is pointing right now.
Especially on a platform as censored as youtube. So I'll leave you with this nugget of information.
We've been able to use nuclear waste to generate power since the 60s.
You may do with this fact as you wish.
every homemade genius that eere able to create infinite energy out of nothing got killed, no technology that benefit human kind to be INDEPENDANT will be let out publicly
“By far the most exciting, satisfying and exhilarating time to be alive is the time in which we pass from ignorance to knowledge on these fundamental issues; the age where we begin in wonder and end in understanding. In all of the four-billion-year history of life on earth, In all of the four-million-year history of the human family, there is only one generation priveleged to live through that unique transitional moment: that generation is ours.”
Carl Sagan, Broca’s Brain
Well said, David. Every day I'm excited for the future
I feel so sad and self destructive most of the time because I feel like I'm not getting the most out of myself and my life. I want to flourish but I'm wasting. Hopefully I can thug it out and learn how to grow sustainably, and face the future with a sense of agency, competence and relatedness instead of feeling disempowered, useless and alone.
Reality for you, time to step into it;
- You are " Privilege of Being Alive" and people like, who have money, can enjoy life.
- Us, who work and still can't survive, let alone buy a house (pure scfi - look up on UK market).
Time to wake up and step out of your bauble.
I usto be much more hopeful like this when I was younger. I’m now 18 at the beginning of the rest of my life yet I feel like a complete fucking failure. It’s so daunting knowing the so much greatness lies in the future and the possibility that if I keep spiraling like I am rn I won’t live to harness that full potential of person I could’ve been. This is all very presumptive ofc and it’s informed from my ongoing depressive episode but I just don’t see a way out for myself anymore and I’m commenting bc I’m sure I’m not the only one thinking like this. Sorry for the vent but thank you to anyone who reads ❤️
Whatever happens, happens. While we all lose our jobs we need food and shelter, AI wont be able to help us for a long while yet, until then I dunno how the world will be like...going to be depressing in the mean time.
Thank you for all your awesome videos, facts and perspectives you share!
Only constant through history is that everything is always changing, and that condition has even become more intense and relevant from 200 years ago, change is accelerating a little more with the pass of years, all is directed to singularity
I have been following you for a while now. You are like the wise seer helping us navigate emotionally when we are at a crossroads today. Keep up the great work! Much love from India :)
I don't always agree with David's perspective but I find it valuable. Nevertheless, the hyperbole is getting a little out of hand here. I'm old, so I've had the benefit of living through several "omg everything is going to change!!!1" moments and while it does, it doesn't. People are still people. Acting like one technology or invention is going to suddenly transform the natural behavior of humanity is ridiculous; we act exactly the same as we did a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, ten thousand years ago (as best we know)... the monkey doesn't change. We simply use the new tools to accomplish the same goals we always have - status, sex, power (violent or otherwise). We have to make wise decisions based on this, because otherwise we get to learn the lessons all over again... though that, too, is in the nature of the monkey.
I honestly am extremely depressed and suicidal. I don't want to continue at all, but I try to soldier through, to see if this singularity will actually happen and if AGI will make life better, it gives hope, these videos and that the world can become better.
AI will have a cure for every condition.
@@minimal3734 But when?
@@mckitty4907 later than you'd like, but early enough for you to make it through until then. At least that's how I see it with my own depression.
"Technology is evolution by another means." Superb thinking here - you just won a subscriber David. A new word for the day too - vesperance - just added to my dictionary.
None of these were my ideas, I'm just repeating good ideas that I find, but thanks!
The future is bright!
@David Shapiro: How do you reconcile what you said about "the change curve accelerating" with recent research suggesting that the pace of scientific discovery-- especially disruptive breakthroughs" -- has slowed dramatically since the mid-20th century?
Save for the realm of information technology in which the rate of change has been phenomenal, the rate of progress has slowed, or, as Peter Thiel said: we've seen "innovation in the world of bits, but not in the world of atoms."
Furthermore, all of the "tech development" you refer to is based on scientific discovery and scientific knowledge. Unless we advance fundamental basic science, our technological progress will start to take a hit. The cycle is as such: scientific discovery leads to technological advancement which leads to more scientific discovery which leads to more technological advancement, and so on. Does that make sense?
"Only once in a species" How many other civilizations in the universe have said the same thing?
Very well put.
George Davis
Nonlinear runaway processes go until they hit a saturation point at a new equalibrium. But that may be a while, and things will be vastly different.
I was born in 1991, every decade has been revolutionary for me. First it was television, then the internet, then smartphones, now it's AI, and coming up next is humanoids.
And immortality
Enjoying it every day
One thing that helps me to enter the hopeful mode is thinking of the current tough life of the unfortunate ones. The ones with bad health, or on underemployment, chronically on drugs, unassisted, lonely, old, dying, or with no perspective on life. Although I grieve that my current happy life will be disrupted by technology, rapid technology advancement is, still, a hope for them.
Evolution is nice n that.... but, can't I just keep being a kid growing up in the 80's and 90's?....... it felt.... warm, back then.
If you had a childhood that was so good you genuinely miss it, you probably don't spend enough time appreciating that stroke of luck! No shade, just an observation.
(I don't really grok 80s or 90s nostalgia because I was so intensely unhappy growing up; most of the typical cultural touchstones evoke unpleasant emotions.)
People who didnt lived late 80s to early 2000s just cant understand it was THE time...
There are a lot of humans, perhaps the majority, that are NOT going to in a position to be able to enjoy the ride. Rough times ahead, friend.
What humans are you reffing to?
Indeed - every time I see some shills say how everyone is lucky to be alive right now - it's a major bout of cringe for me. Human beings generally want certainty - stability - knowing that there will be a tomorrow and what it will bring - once you know that, you can perhaps try to enjoy life. Perpetual state of stress due to not knowing what tomorrow will bring is very much the opposite of what this shill (and many others) suggests.
@realitycheck1086 Yeah, having the certainty that you're going to have to work your arse off to just barely stay afloat until you die is a much better perspective.
@@minimal3734 Amigo - if you want revolution, I'm down. Ever noticed how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer? we are at the 1917 levels now, in terms of wealth disparity.
But here is the new scenario we are about to witness - you now won't even have any certainty that you'll have shelter and food on the table - because jobs are disappearing fast - good paying jobs at that. Worse yet - I now wonder what to tell children when they tell me their big dreams of being a doctor/designer/artist/etc - you know, Billy, our technocrats tell us AI will do all that in the future. Perhaps you should consider being a floor sweeper instead? Or maybe a youtuber?
@@realitycheck1086 I'm surprised at how fixated some are on the idea that selling labour for survival is a necessary or good thing.
I was thinking about this concept. Maybe we’ll be the generation to witness humans on Mars as well. 💯 cheers!
I’d rather be born after the invention of perfected life prolonging and sustaining health tech
yea i feel like this all the time but for some reason, I keep thinking of what Dan Barker said. When he used to believe in Christianity he would say to himself; 'wow how lucky am I, to be born in the right country, to the right family, in the right part of history, to be perfectly positioned to take advantage of the imminent rapture.' (paraphrase). As time went on he realised it was all just wishful thinking and every person before him had felt this same feeling of imminent success which led to him losing faith. Any thoughts?
I think there is a difference between thinking something like that on blind fate and an empirical exponential curve of technology. How many people predicted the "end of days" or another religous/metaphysical event but it never comes to pass? Now compare that to how advanced (as far as we know) technologically we have been. Especially AI has done things in last few years many thought was impossible for the next decades so there is a real pattern of accelerated growth.
@@carlosamado7606 that's a good point but I think that some of the promises of ai do require a pinch of faith to believe. you don't really know what is and isn't possible in the future. A big draw for me with ai is the idea that ageing could be 'cured' in my lifetime. this doesn't appear to be against physical law but neither is 'killing all bacteria' for example, but in reality it is quite impossible. The same could go for some of these other hopes for AI like post-scarcity. Generally there are hard limits to things and this exponential improvement may also have hard limits and I think it requires a little bit of faith (not as much as Christianity) to assume it doesn't.
what led me down this path is Ray Kurzweil saying he predicts longevity treatments in the next 10 years. Well I doubt he's got longer than that left without this sort of assistance. What a stroke of luck for him, not only is he living in the right part of history but it's perfectly timed down to the year to save his life. If that's not faith then I don't know what is, and couldn't help but doubt my own chances at ever-lasting life (and I'm 30 btw).
The weapon we have is that our brain is essentially a compression tool, ultimately its going to try to compress the next new thing and in the process of trying to do that, masters it. Its trying to resolve the next novel data point at out systemic interface and in real time, and recursively builds up a world model in the process, no other tool is capable of that, neural networks are just approximations of the damn thing that we can abstract and scale out.
AI only gets to extend us and nothing more.
Every day is a gift
The Great Turning ✨
It could make one wonder if we were in some group simulation for a history lesson on when humanity made the great transition between what it was and what it will be.
I am so excited for the future 🤟🤖
Beautiful place.
Ironically, there's a river trail near where I live that I also tend to go on and discuss big ideas. Of course, I know you are walking inside the Holodeck!
I just want to get a few nice years where I can get up, go for a walk, see friends, work out, then come back and play 16 hours of Minecraft before going to bed and doing it all again.
The sunset of civilization...
I dream of a static world, in which science and technologies have practically reached a plateau. We cannot build a new human civilization while everything is changing like crazy around us.
Yea I find too most people I talk to IRL are so cynical and have no idea the threshold we are actually on
Or those people know much better real trajectory instead of wishfull happy thinking...
Lets not forget that a man can walk through the woods talking to himself while holding up a rectangular object in front of himself and not be considered insane. What a time to be alive. (Try that while holding a crucifix in front of you."
You keep speaking straight out of my thoughts and continue to find the right words. There’s a deadline around 2040. Behind that is the singularity and if the human species by then hasn’t found a way to unite, we have found the great filter.
We’re gonna solve ASI once and the paths is clear. The possible outcomes couldn’t be further apart. Extinction or a space traveling Super Organism
if we're lucky, we'll go back to our roots, but with super tech in the background keeping everything swell, plus providing the protection for diverse cultural expressions that don't kill each other off
Beautiful scenery! But u should stay in uniform when doing away missions
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as always your content is very inspiring and thought provoking
Yep good to be alive to watch it all happen both fascinating and scary
To sum up: "what a time to be alive!"
Honest (unsolicited) feedback: I love the natural element in the videos, David. It's calming and beautiful. BUT... I've found myself viewing far less regularly since you started shooting from a hand held device. The motion gives me vertigo, or something like it. Also, the fact that you are slightly out of breath when you speak makes me feel like I need to gasp for air to help you along. I would love to see you shoot alongside your favorite part of the river, using a tripod, with a generous, wide-angle shot to enjoy the view, where you can share your perspectives in a non-sympathetic nervous state. I hope this message doesn't offend. Please take it in the spirit in which it is intended: A suggestion to keep what you like in your presentation style while eliminating unnecessary noise that might cause you to lose views.
Your basic tenet, enjoy this amazing ride, is quite sound. Your admonition is laudable. But your basic optimism about our ability to recover is... well... youthful, delightful, and sad.
i am hoping things will change for the better.
I’m currently a student, and in a few years AI will probably be able to do my job quicker, better, and cheaper, so I would lose my job to AI even before I graduate, but that’s a good thing, since it would mean AGI would be achieve, and something similar to UBI will probably also arrive
Focusing on what we are, where we came from, anything other than what are we doing will be subversive. We need to look at ourselves through a lense of objective actions. Not morally or subjectivly viewed. Just what is it that we are doing?
I love outdoorsmen
Do you think we’ll be able to reverse aging once we achieve AGI?
Will this still happen with Sam Altman in charge?
Nothing beats real world production..passing emails back n forth we can do without and robots aren't plumbing any time soon
Thank you. It is truly exciting. Please speak about the super alignment team implosion at open ai and the yudkowsky I told you so moment
We are living in the best times objectively and the worst times subjectively .. with that realization in mind i can't why we wont have Utopia in the next 20 years but it might still feel like dystopia.. its a different experience than the hunter gatherer lifestyle.. but i wouldn't call it better or worst .. just different
Today I learned a new word that I will actually use!
I'm glad I grown without internet but with computers, wouldn't pick other times :D
Q star update leaked, Q * algorithm allows the AI to do inference and training simultaneously in real time, just like how a human might learn and adapt, something that chat GPT 4 can't do.
Hmm I foresee my self falling into hedonistic activities if Im not careful, I need to be sure that I keep within my self a desire to learn and grow.
Soon AI itself will be rolling around in nature with cameras feeding endless streams of data. My hope is for it to feel the beauty also.
may you live in interesting times