Currently reading: Four Horsemen by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett đź“š
The stone speaks slowly
Tepano, a dedicated carver, reflects on his work as he painstakingly shapes a moai while contemplating the connections between fathers and their sons.
The Keeper of Constant Light
Edgar Marsh finds fulfillment and meaning in the solitude of living alone as a lighthouse keeper, appreciating the rhythms of nature and his role in guiding others.
Watched: La bola negra 🍿 Very powerful, though not as powerful as the trailer.
The park for Pancho and I.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try, you’ll often be lonely, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
― Rudyard Kipling, Beware the tribe
So that I think is a real that’s a real thing for for privacy and security and trust. And if you’re going to have an agent that knows a lot about you, which I would guess pretty much we all are going to have that. I mean, I think you fast forward 5 years, like everyone is going to have an agent that like really intimately understands your goals and everything around you and can help you get stuff done. ― Mark Zuckerberg
Is this the future of UI/AI? Are we going to have our own “Daemon” as in The Golden Compass?
So, definitely not living in a simulation?
“Drawing on mathematical theorems related to incompleteness and indefinability, we demonstrate that a fully consistent and complete description of reality cannot be achieved through computation alone,” Dr. Faizal explains. “It requires non-algorithmic understanding, which by definition is beyond algorithmic computation and therefore cannot be simulated. Hence, this universe cannot be a simulation.”
Co-author Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss says this research has profound implications. “The fundamental laws of physics cannot be contained within space and time, because they generate them. It has long been hoped, however, that a truly fundamental theory of everything could eventually describe all physical phenomena through computations grounded in these laws. Yet we have demonstrated that this is not possible. A complete and consistent description of reality requires something deeper—a form of understanding known as non-algorithmic understanding.”
The team’s conclusion is clear and marks an important scientific achievement, says Dr. Faizal. “Any simulation is inherently algorithmic—it must follow programmed rules,” he says. “But since the fundamental level of reality is based on non-algorithmic understanding, the universe cannot be, and could never be, a simulation.”
100 books
To read more and learn more, I set a challenge for myself: a list of the most relevant books, as recommended by Claude. I have a head start since I have read some of them.
If you have any recommendations, please get in touch.
We should be confident in our beliefs, but never certain… (source)
It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the man who is always after more.
— Seneca
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
— Oscar Wilde
The AI Compass
After a short list of questions, this appears to be my archetype regarding AI. Check yours.
If you cannot prove that every dollar of electricity you burn is generating a verified unit of intelligence, you are functionally bankrupt.
— Peter Diamandis
Nothing makes us safer and happier than ensuring the well-being of everyone.
— From Jens Oliver Meiert
Things I've used Claude Cowork for...
- I fed Claude Cowork the OPML file containing the RSS feeds from Feedly to get recommendations based on those feeds.
- I fed it a CSV file with the podcast I follow to get recommendations.
- I fed it an HTML file from my Raindrop collections to find redundancies, duplicates…
- I used it to create notes and clean my Obsidian Vault.
- I used it to get a report on my website with possible improvements…
- Create a news dashboard
- Create interactive tools (artifacts) to learn different subjets
Anything else I should try?
For thousands of years Greenland sharks have swum in silence, as above them the world has burned, rebuilt, burned again. […] I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very idea of them hopeful. They will see us pass through our current spinning apocalypse, and the crash that will come after it, and they will see the currently unimagined things that will come after that: the transformations, revelations, the possible liberations. That is their beauty, and it’s breathtaking: they go on. These slow, odorous, half-blind creatures are perhaps the closest thing to eternal this planet has to offer.
— Katherine Rundell in Consider the Greenland Shark