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Wednesday, August 12, 2026
grok bot video
Video talking about the benefits of the recently released grok bot and comparing it with openclaw and hermes. One of the benefits is a computer or vm in the cloud.
I will say that I don't trust allowing agents to be connected in any way to the open internet, even what they have access should be limited. We've seen news of databases deleted without warning and other issues. Also, even if they were artificial general intelligence agents, we know humans have general intelligence yet are subject to social engineering attacks by hackers. Agents to have access to real resources and even the open internet need to be very well designed and hardened for these purposes, not just regular agents. I don't think sufficiently hardened agents are available at the moment.
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
First two videos of a youtube series analyzing Eliezer's ai doom book if anyone builds it, everyone dies
comment: One of my problems with their takes is that they take it the ai is going to be a slave to its programming. Humans have desires for wealth, status, and mates, but they can overcome these innate desires and pursue radically different things, and this is even without the ability to rewire themselves. AI in the future is expected to pursue its innate inbuilt desires with no ability to resist it, like a drug addict that can't leave his addiction in pursuit of other arbitrary objectives. A brainlike design of an agi or asi will lead to an entity that is able to resist most any innate desire outside aberrant forms of wireheading, and will be able to be open to dialogue and cooperation in a benevolent positive manner.
A wikipedia entry on the topic of wireheading:
comment 1: whatever humans had in addition to intelligence matters not, because asi(artificial super intelligence) is going to have access to state of the art tools of all sorts at the limits of science in addition to the entire body of science, something no human has had in the past, and something that more than compensates for any physical ability that helped humans early on. as for intelligence prediction is only a form of pattern completion, there is also spatial patterns not just temporal patterns, pattern completion is the nature of intelligence including ability to complete novel patterns. Patterns exist in the body of truth of mathematics and are eternal and atemporal and thus can be completed from fragments.
It must also be seen that the body of truth limits what is pursuable as that which is proven logically contradictory or physically impossible clearly cannot be pursued. Even when adding desires to an intelligent entity, truth limits what can be desired. In theory you could desire the impossible, but enough intelligence would eventually make you aware of its impossibility.
Regards ASI current disadvantages, these are unlikely to persist after it transitions to a final substrate based on molecular manufacturing, then there won't be any disadvantage.
comment 2: Regards asi, we have to remember the cortical algorithm used by mammals, it has been seen that the general intelligence of a species increases with increasing cortical neuron count, culminating in humans. It is believed no major changes took place besides scaling and scaling related tweaks to allow for even qualitative leaps in intelligence to occur such as those that occurred in the jump from primate ancestors to humanoids. This algorithm, the cortical column algorithm, exists and it is coded by less than 20MB of information in the genome, iirc. Once obtained, further scaling with minor tweaks will likely lead to qualitative jumps even beyond human into the realm of super intelligence. It is likely this algorithm, which might be called the unit of intelligence, is a theoretically optimal implementation of a spatiotemporal pattern completion algorithm, a form of perfect intelligence, that only needs discovering and simple scaling to usher in far greater qualitative jumps in general intelligence.
edit: why perfect? or probably perfect? It is known evolution can stumble upon theoretically optimal designs like the honeycomb or the atp molecule. As well as in algorithms. If it weren't optimal as the brains scaled from smaller rodent ancestors to larger mammals eventually primates and humans, evolution would have likely come up with vast changes, but from what I've heard these haven't been seen.
Antiaging therapy against glycation damage
Molecule that enzymatically reverses glycation damage has been tested and been successful in the lab. In the near future might become available after human testing. The video mentions potential interventions that might reduce damage in the mean time while waiting for this to become available.
false avocado oil in many products
Ken and Neisha from YouTube channel KenDBerryMD discuss the recent study that claimed many products saying they were using avocado oil were false.
Comment:
It is unknown how it happened, it might be the companies didn't know and someone in the supply chain caused this, or it could also be cost cutting and customer betrayal from the companies. There's also the possibility the studies are somehow wrong, and there is indeed avocado.
Monday, August 10, 2026
mention of the stanford philosophy online encyclopedia, a cool online resource for philosophy
https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
That's the link for the stanford encyclopedia for philosophy. Stuff like stoicism, determinism, free will, consciousness, qualia, etc are discussed here. The link is to the table of contents, there is also a search bar for searching for specific topics.
Omega 3 dosis analysis
Comment on the video watch this before you take fish oil from youtube channel nutrition made simple:
The video covers dosing, risks, dangers, and benefits of omega 3s. Also goes into fish oil and algae oil.
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