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2023-03-03-twitter-bayeslord-pmarca

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Beff: I guess it's been, some nugget of it I've been working on my whole life to some extent. When you're a mathematician or a physicist, sometimes you can get in a doomer rabbit hole of rationality and end up nihilistic. At least understanding kind of the forces that brought humanity to this point and life itself, and intelligence, and understanding where it's going is-- at least understanding that pulled me out of a nihilistic rabbit hole of a typical middle of the bell curve of what we know about the universe maybe there's heat death so therefore there's no point sort of deal. Beff: I worked in physics. I had some sort of cosmic posthumanist/transhumanist bent. Over time, I created anon accounts and hanged out on twitter spaces. I met bayeslord. There's a few other guys. We just hang out on twitter spaces and talk about the meaning of life and where this is all going. Beff: We started ripping on EAs and AI safety, and the hallmonitor complex, more broadly, of those that seek to cont

2023-03-03 twitter spaces bayeslord v. pmarca space: https://twitter.com/bayeslord/status/1629679058794557444 build with hplusroadmap on discord: https://twitter.com/kanzure/status/1615359557408260096 ??: How did e/acc get started? Beff: I guess it's been, some nugget of it I've been working on my whole life to some extent. When you're a mathematician or a physicist, sometimes you can get in a doomer rabbit hole of rationality and end up nihilistic. At least understanding kind of the forces that brought humanity to this point and life itself, and intelligence, and understanding where…

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