Kurzweil predicts that, thanks to exponential progress, by 2025 we’ll have 100% renewable energy (and a grid to go with it) and then 2045 is the Singularity. AIs will be at human-level brain intelligence next year. We’ll be able to stop, and then reverse aging, within 5 years.
Kurzweil comes across as an old man, slow to respond to Rogan’s rapid-fire and well-informed questions.
"Direct-to-consumer (DTC) laboratory tests are increasingly available to consumers with minimal or no involvement from health care professionals". Why are tests bad but, say, medical books are okay? Or maybe these people would ban medical books too if they could?
I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding is that no, NFT and copyright are parallel systems. Owning one does not imply the other. But for legal purposes, an NFT is a good way to prove provenance in the event of a dispute over copyright.
Key conclusion: "observational studies of interventions with small to moderate effect sizes are prone to bias caused by selection and omitted variables."
Surprisingly few interventions are so good that you don't need fancy statistics to justify them. Really good treatments (e.g. antibiotics) are so effective as to be obvious to all.
Interesting idea, but what's to stop all those tokenholders from going elsewhere without Elon? Once you free up the ID space, what value is there anymore in Twitter?
The interesting thing about crypto to me is how there seems to be a deep divide among very smart people, some who think it's the greatest thing ever and some who think it's a fraud.
I can't remember when there's ever been such a Bigendian-scale dispute in technology before. Can you?
Twitter "has the potential to be a new protocol for the Internet — the notifications and identity protocol; unlike every other protocol, though, this one would be owned by a private company."
You could build the ultimate DeFi/Sci/Anything on this. If Twitter does it, there's no particular reason to go blockchain, but if they did it would solve the identity problem in a big way.
Weirdest tip of all: eat 2 TBS of a tasteless oil (e.g. avocado oil) every morning at 10am.
The theory is that obesity is cause by a misalignment between the body's sense of how much food it's eating (which it determines largely by smell and taste) and the actual number of calories consumed. High density, tasteless calories fool that system into thinking you're already full, so you won't want to eat more.
Search for "Shangri La Diet" to learn more details.
"I think of them as new kinds of computers, new kinds of legal systems, and new ways of achieving reliable decentralized consensus. So I think they’re most analogous to advances in computing rather than some kind of monetary event."