Metal corrodes. Ever seen an old car sitting in the sun and rain for a long time? It turns to rust and then disappears.

Children are now born with plastic in their veins so we'll know soon enough what happens to these children based on their health outcomes.

We've had mass use plastic for decades. Baby boomers were likely born with plastic in their veins. I certainly was.

You have a blood sample analysis indicating that's the case?

No but that's a silly standard. I can't go back in time and blood test my infant self. We have microplastics everywhere because of their widespread use. That's been occurring for a few generations now. There is no rational reason to think that we only accumulated them when we first noticed them. No the rational explanation is its been that way as long as we've been mass exposing ourselves to plastics which is right around the end of the second world war. And if car tires are as big of a contributor as some studies indicate then its been even longer because vulcanized rubber is a prewar invention.

Then there is nothing to worry about because everything since WW2 has been fine as far as cognition and general health is concerned. Although, IQs and sperm quality have been declining for a while now but it's probably unrelated to all the plastic pollution.

I think there likely is little cause for concern. Is it contributing to poor health? Maybe but if it is then its a small contribution. There are much bigger issues like poor diet and lifestyle. HFCS for example was easy to link to poor health and it should probably be outlawed.

It's a good thing most foods now have sugar substitutes like splenda and you can request sugar substitutes in your coffee as well. HFCS is a non-issue.

A car tire is not purely rubber, it is combined with synthetic polymers derived from petroleum and petroleum derivatives (same as plastics).

Can Yellen also declare peace for the world?

This is a great opportunity to tell you about my patented and trademarked architecture for achieving AGI: "panoptic computronium cathedral"™. All I need is $80B to make it happen and make AGI a reality. It's construction will not be easy but once completed it will allow those that worship in the cathedral to enact the will of the mathematical god that dwells within its GPUs and show all the non-believers that all is mathematics (mostly just a bunch of matrix multiplications and floating point arithmetic).

The radical architecture required to achieve AGI is to treat it as a religion and build artifacts, rituals, and practices that will manifest the true technological god and govern the world with nothing more than mathematics implemented on GPUs.

Hehe ;)

> Man furnishes no exception to the rule. He seems to add the treachery and deceit that the other animals in the main do not practice, to all the other cruelties that move his life. Man has made himself master of the animal world and he uses his power to serve only his own ends. Man, at least, kills helpless animals for the pleasure of killing, alone. He breeds horses and dogs, and fixes a gala day which is a society occasion when both men and women dress for the event, whereupon they turn loose a puny fox and set on its trail a pack of hounds trained for the chase. The noble men and women, riding at a mad pace, follow over hill and dale until, after hours of effort, the exhausted fox is unable longer to escape them, and with great glee they see it torn to pieces by the hounds.

Darwin making a convincing case for our unbounded "human" capacity of cruelty against other animals. The fact that he is describing the practices of the aristocracy is also very relevant because every human being in the "developed" world today lives like an aristocrat and commits so many atrocities throughout the day that it would be impossible to catalogue them all.

This is why building the "panoptic computronium cathedral"™ is a moral imperative. I can get it all done for a mere $80B so tell all your friends about it. This is a bargain deal for saving the soul of humanity.

> The fact that he is describing the practices of the aristocracy is also very relevant because every human being in the "developed" world today lives like an aristocrat and commits so many atrocities throughout the day that it would be impossible to catalogue them all.

Any example of these atrocities that every human commits every day which are on the same scale and personal involvement as the fox hunting presented as the example of an atrocity?

You ever buy a sandwich with meat in it? How about coffee? Chocolate? Driving a car? Use pesticides to clear your home of termites? Poisons to get rid of rats and other "pests"? Do you use smart phones and other gadgets with rare earth metals? Have you recently walked by a homeless person and what did you do about the situation? Do you have an opinion on Israel's actions in Gaza? Ever been in a car accident? Run over some animals/people because you were going too fast? Do you use makeup tested on animals? The list is endless.

The soul of humanity can be saved for a mere $80B with the help of the "panoptic computronium cathedral"™ so tell all your friends about it. A better humanity is possible for a very cheap investment, all that's needed is some hardware and software that will enable governing the world with mathematics.

> You ever buy a sandwich with meat in it? How about coffee? Chocolate? Driving a car? Use pesticides to clear your home of termites? Poisons to get rid of rats and other "pests"? Do you use smart phones and other gadgets with rare earth metals? Have you recently walked by a homeless person and what did you do about the situation? Do you have an opinion on Israel's actions in Gaza? Ever been in a car accident? Run over some animals/people because you were going too fast? Do you use makeup tested on animals?

Do you think that any of those examples are in the category of "taking pleasure and directly taking part in seeing a live animals torn to bits"?

It has nothing to do with your subjective experience and everything to do with the fact that wanton use of resources, animals, and people for selfish purposes is fundamentally immoral and atrocious. The fact that the aggregate effect ends up being a crime against nature is why these atrocities are innumerable. By simply existing and opting into the system you are complicit in its operation and propagation.

You don't have to see a live animal torn to bits to be implicated in the unethical farming and slaughter of animals, all you have to do is spend a dollar to support the system that makes it all possible.

> It has nothing to do with your subjective experience and everything to do with the fact that wanton use of resources, animals, and people for selfish purposes is fundamentally immoral and atrocious.

I'm trying to clarify your position here: Do you think that eating a creature, farmed, raised and killed in accordance with current legislation, is the same level of atrocity as laughing with pleasure as a live animal is torn apart, just for the joy of the audience?

Because, TBH, if you argue that those two are the same in level and intensity of "evilness", then you are, in all fairness, not playing with a full deck.

If you argue that they are not, then your original comment is off the mark.

Oh so you're doing me a favor? That's great but the only favor I need from you is to tell your friends about the panoptic computronium cathedral. Thanks again for being so helpful but I just need money to save humanity and don't need anyone to clarify my position because it is pretty clear if you have an IQ high enough to understand it.

They used confidential information to figure out who to email and set the price. The breached the trust their customers put in them to keep their data private.

So you are willing to deny Carta the ability to generate profits because you do not think that confidential financial information should be used to set prices on some financialed instruments and commodities. Did I get that right?

If their business is to be a safe place for confidential data it does seem a bit strange to be shocked that someone would dare deny their right to give away the confidential data for fun and profit.

If I had a contract with you to keep something of yours safe, and you found out I sold it, would your response be something like “behold the power of the free market”?

Not without permission from the owner of the confidential information. I don't think that's controversial.

It is controversial if you are a free market supremacist like myself and believe that the market should be setting any and all prices. Removing market inefficiencies is what capitalism is all about and preventing the trading of pre-IPO shares seems like a very glaring inefficiency for setting the actual price of Linear.

I never said anything about preventing the trading. I said Carta should not steal information to set the price. Even a free market supremacist should understand the moral hazard of using stolen information to set prices.

Drink every time you hear the word "capitalist"

Seriously though, your comment and questions are not genuine, you're trying to setup a "capitalism is bad" narrative using this story as an example.

I'm not buying it.

That's ok, I'm not selling anything.

Is this a parody? I remember doing this bit about Grok and how it would be used to automate ad targeting and optimization but it looks like Spotify did it for real. It's great to see that I keep hitting these targets about how AI will be utilized at scale™. The inevitable endpoint is of course the panoptic computronium cathedral and I can build the whole thing for $80B. Tell all your friends about it.

How about a proper diet? Has anyone looked into how acne is related to diet? I'm sure this pill will be great though, every problem can be solved with enough synthetic medical chemistry.

Isn't the diet a myth or at least a half-truth?

For sure, I just eat pills all day like Ray Kurzweil. His stack is proprietary though so I had to reverse engineer all of it from his writing about the singularity.

Surely you don't believe no one has looked into it?

Yes?

mRNA and gene therapy is the way. We’ll slowly spell check the genome.

Definitely, it's always a good idea to modify metabolic pathways at the DNA and RNA level by injecting ourselves with protoviruses. Nothing will go wrong and lots of money will be made.

Trying to reconcile the doomer comment with “homeless techno-optimist and singularitarian.” in your profile. Shouldn’t you be more confident in this path?

I am. I am 100% on board with accelerating all scientific trends and achieving full scale utilization of all solar radiation at every scale of conceivable reality, current and future. The goal is to achieve godhood and I can get it done for a mere $80B with a patented and trademarked architecture called "panoptic computronium cathedral"™.

An LLM is an interface/veneer over crowdsourced knowledge found on the web and whatever human labor is used for "RLHF". As such, LLMs do not change any of the economic dynamics inherent in capitalism and its markets. The goal is to generate profit by exploiting the masses and their labor with the help of computers. Sam Altman and friends have developed new techniques for more optimally exploiting human labor and knowledge but it is still well within the capitalist paradigm.

Feed that into an LLM, see what happens.