Liron Debates Beff Jezos and the "e/acc" Army — Is AI Doom Retarded?

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We do not know what a qualitative leap above humans can do even with limited resources. Humans did not need to exceed the computation of all animals to gain dominion and pose a threat to all animals even if there were only a few million humans. Even one or a few superintelligences beyond human, which may only need a few hundred watts with current hardware, may be enough to pose a threat to all humans depending on what is technologically possible with a qualitative leap above humans.

IGN's Best Office Chair List Might ACTUALLY Be Legit...

A very good comparison of office chairs by highly reputable website ign.  The chairs are ranked and a best overall is put as number one.   Such chairs are very good quality and good for gamers as well as developers who spend long hours sited.

Ethernet is DEAD?? Mac Studio is 100x FASTER!!

A new type of protocol iirc allows the macs to connect together and function at very high speed for the purpose of local ai.   Mac Ultras in particular can house large models spread among the various units and still achieve good performance.

PhD Bodybuilder Predicts The Future of AI (97% Certain) [Dr. Mike Israetel]

Dr. Mike gives his optimistic take on the future of ai.  I'm also optimistic and agree that a very good future is the most likely outcome of ai development.  That is also the view of many others including influential figures, as well as many ai researchers.

James Bond of Weight Loss: Once a Year Obesity Drug!

WVE-007 appears to provide an alternative to glp medicines for weight loss.  It mimics a naturally occurring mutation that appears mostly beneficial.  Suggesting that it might have low side effect risks, but of course testing is needed to see if that turns out to be true.

Doom Debates LIVE Call-In Show! Listener Q&A about AGI, evolution vs. en...

comment regards cells and agi, neurons are evolved information processors, but unevolvable computing substrates are believed to have far higher limits. According to llms even biobased computronium would be orders of magnitude more capable than the brain if using unevolvable advanced synthetic biology. The brain operates very close to landauer limit but that is at the level of individual molecules, and it uses too many molecules to perform simple computations.

Watch This BEFORE You Buy The Ninja Blast Max!

Evaluation of the new battery powered ninja blender, it is stronger than the previous one. I had the previous one and found it quite good, so this can only be an improvement.  The video evaluates the latest model and goes into the details of its performance.

Stephen Wolfram: AI and the Nature of Reality

Stephen Wolfram, famous researcher, goes into some of his theories as well as comments on latest ais and the fact he hasn't been impressed by them.  He believes the universe might be the product of simple rules, in a system that he calls the ruliad.

The AGI Debate That's Currently Dividing Google And Meta

comment: all the arguments against the idea of a perfect master universal algorithm rely on lack of structure across all possible information or domains. If there exist underlying structure or relations between all possible patterns, then the assumptions of no free lunch are falsified.

Robotics Could Actually HELP End Poverty? | Episode #117

Dr Mike comments on the benefits of robotics.  And how robotics could help put an end to poverty.  I agree that an end to poverty can occur, but it requires reproduction to be controlled such that excessive reproduction does not occur.  This is because there are limited resources, and uncontrolled reproduction can always exceed resources.

Fire Amoeba Defies Life's Temperature Rules (New Discovery)

extremophiles, lifeforms at the extremes of nature once again break records, in this case temperature records.   This time it is a eukaryotic cell or more advanced cell.   It is very impressive that extremophiles can achieve such amazing survival under extreme circumstances.

Is AGI Coming In 2026?

edit: update 2026 is almost over so it seems human level agi might not be reached this year.   It was probably too optimistic to hope for such a quick arrival of such revolutionary technology.

Apple did what NVIDIA wouldn't.

Cool new software update enables fast local ai on macs.   Now large models can spread and make use of the memory on various devices while still running fast.

Steam Frame vs. Every Other VR Headset!

It appears that the steam frame might be priced very expensively.  Hopefully that is not the case.  But so far this promising new headset might be priced out of range of most average consumers.

The Truth About Our AI Future w/ Ben Goertzel

Goertzel goes on to some of the neuroscience experiments that have been done in the past, and the nature of ai and how the future may develop with upcoming ai advances.  Ben Goertzel is the ai researcher mathematician who coined the term artificial general intelligence.

900 Days Left – AI Is Coming for Capitalism

This episode covers future ai and robotics and how joblessness and a threat to capitalism may occur.  Without jobs there can be no consumers with money, and the whole nature of the economy is turned upside down.

Facing Superintelligence (with Ben Goertzel)

Goertzel goes into details on potential superintelligence.  Superintelligence is intelligence beyond human level, able to generalize outside the capabilities of humans.

Robert Miles - Children [Dream Version]

Calming music from Robert Miles, with very good accompanying visuals.  It is without lyrics, but the music does evoke the movements of the heart.

The End of DisplayPort PCVR? Steam Frame Wireless Tech Tested with 4K Mi...

The advanced technology of the steam frame is tested.  The steam frame utilizes advanced compression to allow for lagless high-quality images to be seen, making it a state-of-the-art wireless headset that can be connected to the pc.

PhD AI Researcher Says P(Doom) is TINY — Debate with Michael Timothy Ben...

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Whether intelligence is akin to omnipotence depends on what is technologically possible. For example, are macroscopic robots able to be self-sufficient with ever decreasing ore and energy source quality? I suspect they aren't. Then are nanomachines possible? what about technologies even beyond nanomachines? If any of these are possible then intelligence can be akin to omnipotence in a battle between humans and ais.

Why You're Wrong about Morality

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The big problem is that without objective moral realism, there is nothing that is truly wrong, just preferences. No evil and no good, and that seems fundamentally wrong. People's morality could be wrong or shaped by evolution, but it seems like to say good and evil don't exist is too much.

AMD FSR Redstone: Image Quality Frame Gen Comparison, Latency Benchmarks...

fsr is still lacking in quality, especially compared to nvidia's latest.  amd continues to advance but they are still lagging the state of the art in image upscaling and frame generation.

Kusuha Mizuha (Vocal) × Super Robot Wars｜AI Live-Action Remake MV “ACE A...

Another song with computer generated, or ai generated, humans with perfect skin.  It is a retake of an anime song that has good lyrics and music.

Celtic Music - Sword of Kings

Cool nonverbal music, with celtic tones, very good overall.  

Samsung Galaxy XR Hands On: The AVP Killer at Half the Price?

comparing the samsung device with apple's vision pro.  While there is competitiveness.  Both devices still lack the advantages brought by the top content owners such as meta and valve.

Sparks Fly! Rabbi Tovia Singer vs. Pastor Michael Williams — Is Jesus Re...

Interesting debate regarding the Messiah.  Jewish Rabbi Tovia Singer debates a Christian Pastor, on why jews did not accept Jesus as the Messiah.

Google DeepMind CEO Just Changed How I See AI

Predictions of ai from Deepmind CEO, regards next twelve months that is 2026.  Suggests multimodality will show advantages, and that there will also be improvements in agent based systems.

This is the VR NEWS EVERYONE wants!

wow seems like valve will try to push for regular games to also have stereoscopic 3d on steam frame in the future.   Hope it's true and they succeed; this would be crazy good.

With the old 3d tech I managed to experience some of the older games in 3d and it was spectacular.

New AGI Timeline, AI Could Automate 57% of US Jobs, and Claude Conscious...

Talk between various reputable famous individuals regards ai automation and jobloss as well agi timelines.   This is an hour plus talk that covers these interesting topics, and the individuals give their opinions regarding these developments.

Opus 4.5 is Cracked - I FEEL THE ACCELERATION

Benchmark results of opus 4.5 as well as commentary on its abilities.  Opus 4.5 managed to improve on previous models and showed very good ability particularly in coding.

Mathematicians Discover a Strange New Infinity

New type of infinity discovered, goes into the infinity ladder, and the various types of infinities.  Also goes into the mathematicians called the ultrafinitists that reject infinity.

#新机动战记高达W #RHYTHMEMOTION 粤语

AI generated humans singing a song based off the gundam anime gundam wing.   The skin is perfect and the song is faithfully recreated from the show in an asian language.

Facing AI Doom, Lessons from Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) — Michael...

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My issue is robots and robocars use minuscule amounts of compute yet are doing human and superhuman performance. To me this says human brain is likely in same order of magnitude compute, given things like driving are some of the toughest things humans do. If this hypothesis is true human level and even superhuman level intelligence may only require trivial amounts of compute.

If true that means such compute is easily within the reach of secret military labs without need of vast data centers. And I don't see these labs abiding by any regulation or law. This is without mentioning other planets or civilizations. Some of which may predate us. Some rumors are there are interstellar objects currently within solar system which may have intelligent origin, and if it is intelligent origin, it is conceivably superintelligent origin.

Will also add that some say that in mammals scaling of the cortical algorithm leads to increases in g, and that even human qualitative leap was mostly due to scaling. So, it is conceivable that a similar algorithm or it if discovered could yield superintelligence with just mere scaling.

Crystal Super MicroOLED - Finally The Perfect VR Headset For Enthusiasts?

Pimax crystal display evaluated and commented upon.  The conclusion of the device's quality and image quality is given by MRTV youtuber.  He mentions the limitations of the preproduction unit he tested vs the final product.

Walk This Way to Live Longer (Backed by New Science)

Even under 8k steps might still have notable benefits.  It is convenient to walk more than 15 minutes at a time to reduce all cause mortality.