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.


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.

cool low cost ar glasses

 

Extremely cheap AR glasses available in amazon for 159$ limited time sale.  Creates virtual 200+ inch virtual screen.  These are good for portability, as they can connect to phone or tablet or portable device and take similar function as a monitor while occupying far less space yet providing far more screen real estate.  Good visual quality and audio quality.

Still I'm not sure of the brand maybe its reputable but being I'm unfamiliar with it I wouldn't connect to anything important.  Probably to a gaming device or for streaming but would keep away from devices with access to important accounts due to potential security concerns.  Again, it could be just paranoia as I've not heard of any security issues with this device, but it's just my take for any brand that is not a big familiar brand name to me.

Commentary on two ai videos related to graph engineering

 

Comment: In this video youtuber Greg Isenberg explains graph engineering in plain English.  How it is a useful term unlike some other recent terms in ai that are just hype and not very useful.  He also briefly covers other useful ai terms that have emerged regarding llms.  Throughout the video he gives several examples and also suggests when it's useful to use it.
Comment: In this video by youtuber Sean loops are compared with graph engineering.  He also covers some of the earlier terms and how the use of ai evolved over time.  Giving examples along the way.