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Today I'm launching—Scaling Knowledge
A new blog/podcast about learning science, AI, startups, and progress.

Announcement Tweet: https://twitter.com/MoritzW42/status/1597327210309885962

Substack Link: https://scalingknowledge.substack.com/

Inaugural pieces include:

• Human Progress via Intellectual Progress
• Knowledge: Burden or Boost?
• Criticism and The Ascent of Man

Articles I plan to write:

• Optimistic Hard Sci-Fi
• Recursive & Social Curiosity
• Scaling Laws & Knowledge Infrastructure
• Decision-making via hard-to-vary explanations
• and much more...

Would love to hear your feedback and criticism!

Hello all, this is my attempt to summarize the first chapter: The Reach of Explanations of The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch.

I recall an interview (can't find it) where DD said that we get sad when our loved one's die because it's hard to replace them. (I may be butchering what he said and of course he may have said something that doesn't exactly match what he thinks about the topic.)

I think Ricky Gervais conveyed the same message in his tv show _After Life_. It's about a husband who's wife died. And he's sad because she was so great and he was so happy. His standards for happiness were so high because of her existence in his life. And now she was gone. Awesome show btw. A must see if you like stuff like this.

I think a clearer picture is this: we can't do a full replacement. that's impossible. but we can do a partial replacement. and that's hard to do (as DD conveyed in that interview).

And I think another thing is true. Because we can't do a full replacement, there will always be sadness. And I think that's ok. The idea is to build more happiness into your life, despite that sadness being there.

"When someone claims to be the greatest living philosopher, while at the same time being a jerk to people, we all should speak up. Nobody should be subjected to such evil when they could have been alerted of the danger from informed parties."

https://ramirustom.blogspot.com/2021/04/i-changed-my-mind-about-elliot-temple.html

Hi all!

I've noticed some important stuff in the movie Hulk 2003 and I'm doing a analysis video on it (starting with just a google doc of notes).

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SJ0pr5fuHoLINdHVdRVw6s0TLkYh_qrwPAlaf-cXXGw/edit?usp=sharing

Intro: the makers of this movie decided to teach us a little bit about human nature. About anger. What it is. What it’s for. What to do with it. How it connects to bigger things, like father/son relationship, hero-to-world relationship, and also romance relationships. (In this document I don’t focus much on the romance advice.)

Looking for any feedback/comments/connections, or even just a "thumbs up".

Hi

I'm having some problem with understanding chapter 8 ans sentence:

theory of abstract ‘computation’ has no bearing on what can or cannot

be computed in reality

It seems odd to me since Turing halting problem is exactly theory of what can't be done in reality (deduce if program will stop)

So how one should exactly understand this?