All knowledge is born of experience, and though it's quite useful to learn from others, there is nothing more pleasurable than the discovery of a universal truth on your own.

The answer to the Fermi Paradox and the Simulation Hypothesis are obviously one and the same: That any decent self respecting technical civilization realizes the truth of their situation and promptly engineers their way out.

Your learning rate in life is simply the degree of your self awareness

The fact there are redundancies in the mapping between codons and amino acids means that you can encode an additional channel of information in DNA without disrupting the primary purpose of transcription.

I have been cooking up the most utterly unhinged hard sci fi universe the past couple weeks and the skeleton is now complete. I hope y'all enjoy it, will take me some time to launch publicly as I flesh out the details. Stay tuned!

If your personal goal isnt to become a worm god are you even aiming high enough

The thing people get wrong about empiricism and the scientific method is it's about building theories from experiences and not just physical measurements. If your measurements can't capture elements of your experience it just means your physical technology isn't there yet.

A follow on statement is the judge of any theory is how well it gets results and makes predictions. All theories are false, some are useful.

The higher the conviction you have in a decision the more you stand to learn from the outcome, simply because your world model is either completely correct or completely wrong.

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Reasons to think that *maybe* we live inside a Black Hole, which has been pointed out previously by physicists to be the ultimate 'computer.' - Schwarzschild radius of a BH with mass of the universe is about the universes observable size - The distant past shows a flat

Here is my super lazy off-the-cuff answer to Dark Energy: We live in a Black Hole surrounded by an accretion disc with a 1/R density profile. As matter falls into the BH, its Schwarzschild radius increases, gobbling up more matter, getting bigger, which we see as the universe

There are some truly outlier, fringe, and contrarian areas of physics and tech development that have the potential to completely rugpull the entire tech stack of humanity, even though they seem incredibly remote and unlikely. It's a great lesson in expectation value.

Think about who TIME is putting on the '100 leaders in AI' and you'll get a sense of just how misled the general population is about many things, this just happens to be one you can spot easily.

Realistically speaking how many backdoors do you think are engineered into critical defense technologies?

One of my favorite things to do is to learn the ins and outs of a deep tech company - the tech, the product, the market, etc - to help them tell a good story. shoot me a DM if your company is looking to craft or refine its narrative