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I LOVE U LOUISIANA!! Thanks @hannahjegart + @defendnola

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:52:18 -0700

I LOVE U LOUISIANA!! Thanks @hannahjegart + @defendnola

Heya

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:20:23 -0700

Heya

Burning Man party with @barefoot_shrubs and the most badass 50...

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:19:51 -0700

Burning Man party with @barefoot_shrubs and the most badass 50 year old Carmen

Post no bills? How about post MO bills

Sun, 12 May 2013 18:46:00 -0700

Post no bills? How about post MO bills

Pizza Orgasmica, San Francisco #pizza (à Pizza Orgasmica &...

Sat, 11 May 2013 11:35:16 -0700

Pizza Orgasmica, San Francisco #pizza (à Pizza Orgasmica & Brewing Company)

Hiking in the Pacific Palisades with the love of my life (à Los...

Sat, 04 May 2013 15:59:30 -0700

Hiking in the Pacific Palisades with the love of my life (à Los Liones Trailhead - COYOTES)

My new Trust necklace by @melodyehsani @candypaintla (à Melody...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:25:59 -0700

My new Trust necklace by @melodyehsani @candypaintla (à Melody Ehsani Design)

Thanks to lememe.com for the photo and to my coworker for...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:31:05 -0700

Thanks to lememe.com for the photo and to my coworker for leaving his computer unattended long enough to do this

Look mom I’m in Paris! @hannahjegart (à Watts Towers)

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:20:08 -0700

Look mom I’m in Paris! @hannahjegart (à Watts Towers)

Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 19 Notes Essay

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:45:32 -0700

blakemasters:

Here is an essay version of my class notes from the last class of CS183: Startup, class 19. Errors and omissions are mine.

The following three guests joined the class for a discussion:

Sonia Arrison, tech analyst, author of 100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity will Change Everything, and Associate Founder of Singularity University

Michael Vassar, futurist and past President of the Singularity Institute for the study of Artificial Intelligence (SIAI)

Dr. Aubrey de Grey, gerontology expert and Chief Science Officer at the SENS Foundation.

Credit for good stuff goes to them and Peter, who gave the closing remarks. I have tried to be accurate. But note that this is not an exact transcript.

Class 19 Notes Essay—Stagnation or Singularity?

I. Perspectives

Peter Thiel: Let’s start by having each of you outline your vision of what kinds of technological change we might see over the next 30 or 40 years.

Michael Vassar: It’s lot easier to talk about what the world will look like 30 years from now than 40 years from now. Thirty seems tractable. Today, we’ve gone from knowing how to sequence a gene or two to thousand-dollar whole genome sequencing. Paul Allen is running a $500 million experiment that seems to be going very well. This technological trajectory is both exciting and terrifying at the same time. Suppose, after 30 years, we have a million times today’s computing power and achieve a hundred times today’s algorithmic efficiency. At that point we’d be in a place to simulate brains and such. And after that, anything goes.

But this kind of progress over the next 30 years is by no means something we can take for granted. Getting around bottlenecks—energy constraints, for example—is going to be hard. If we can do it, we’re at the very end. But I expect that there will be a lot of turmoil along the way.

Aubrey de Grey: We have a fair idea of what technology might be developed, but a much weaker idea of the timeline for development. It is possible that we are about 25 years away from escape velocity. But there are two caveats to this supposition: first, it is obviously subject to sufficient resources being deployed toward the technological development, and second, even then, it’s 50-50; we probably have a 50% chance of getting there. But there would seem to be at least a 10% chance of not getting there for another 100 years or so.

In a sense, none of this matters. The uncertainty of the timeline should not affect prioritization. We should be doing the same things regardless.

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Just read the closing thoughts at the end for a short burst of inspiration, then start from the top.

digestifordinaire: How animals eat their food. Hilarious.

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:29:13 -0700

digestifordinaire:

How animals eat their food.

Hilarious.

digestifordinaire: Crustation - ‘Purple’ This is the most...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:27:29 -0700

digestifordinaire:

Crustation - ‘Purple’

This is the most gorgeous thing I’ve heard in a long fuckin time

what do you miss about new orleans?

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:01:31 -0700

Different things on different days, but most regularly - and in direct comparison to LA - the realness and rawness, as well as the almost ubiquitous pride that New Orleans residents have in their city. I’ve found much less of each in Los Angeles.

Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (Gigamesh edit) If the chorus of this...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:54:18 -0700

Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (Gigamesh edit)

If the chorus of this song doesn’t make you want to twirl around in circle in a field of flowers until you throw up then I don’t understand you.

“Hi. We are tacos and we love you.”

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:27:50 -0700

“Hi. We are tacos and we love you.”

Mel just like thinks LA is totally the raddesttttt

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:07:25 -0700

Mel just like thinks LA is totally the raddesttttt

#lisafrank mail feels like a warm pink hug from my 90s...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:52:18 -0700

#lisafrank mail feels like a warm pink hug from my 90s childhood!!!

Men like Pablo Osvaldo should be illegal.

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:51:39 -0700

Men like Pablo Osvaldo should be illegal.

Aesop Rock - Coffee (Figure remix) Intense deliciousness,...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:35:53 -0700

Aesop Rock - Coffee (Figure remix)

Intense deliciousness, beautiful noises.

Django rmx - GUTS

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:35:38 -0700

Django rmx - GUTS