Heart cells grown in a Petri dish will start to self-organize and form chambers and start beating.

What is the relationship between life and self-organization?

Did molecules self-organize into amino acids which self-organized into DNA which self-organized into organs and organisms and societies etc?

What programming deep in the structure of the cells directs it to self-organize instinctively?

It’s honestly abhorrent how billionaires exploit loopholes to avoid taxes.

Also, taxation is theft so paying taxes is abhorrent as well.

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1936

DEEPTOOLS VIDEO 4:

In this 30 minute video, I use cursor to summarize today's political news with Perplexity's and ChatGPT's APIs.

While all my code worked, one issue is that the API's would randomly refuse requests to summarize paragraphs that have political content.

This focus on "safety" holds back tech development.

Regardless, it was meant to show you how to use Cursor AI to develop whatever is in your imagination.

Link to previous video: https://t.me/deepthrill/433

“What will benefit my future self the most?”

“And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning ‘That path leads ever down into stagnation.’”
~Frank Herbert, Dune

I voted for Trump in:
- 2016 Republican primaries
- 2016 General election
- 2020 General election
- 2024 General election (already voted early)

Mushroom Slicing Musings on AI:

So I’m preparing food for dinner, chopping baby bella mushrooms, and reflecting on my own thought process versus AI.

When I choose where to cut the mushroom, firstly I don’t want to cut at the very edge of the stem, because I can rationally think about it and envision the slice falling apart.

I’m forming images in my imagination of how the final dish might look, feel, taste, if the mushroom slices are various thicknesses.

I’m considering that I’ll be using a cast iron pan when cooking it, when deciding how thick or thin to make the mushroom.

I’m using my imagination to play out various simulated scenarios in my head, using my reason and logic to try to make the best decision I can.

This information is being computed by my neurons in half a second, and the answer communicated to my nerves, which in turn direct the muscles in my hands and arms and move the knife.

All for a single simple cut of a mushroom.

And then I compare that to how modern AI simulates reasoning.

The key, to me, is that we humans use our imaginations to envision different scenarios in our heads. This is fuzzy, full of bias, but guided by our best attempt at logic and reason.

Now maybe AI can be programmed to do all that, but the idea of considering all that should arise naturally from an artificial intelligence.

If we humans have to program it in, then it didn’t learn to do that.

But perhaps it’s okay we didn’t learn to do that either and it’s baked into our DNA 🧬 by our maker?

Go to San Francisco just to experience Waymos.

No more Uber or Lyft human drivers, just pay the same price for a robot to pick you up and drop you off.

No judgement, take a 3 minute ride to skip over the drug addict streets, it’s just a robot who cares.

Making the pilgrimage to San Francisco just to experience thousands of self-driving taxis as you hop around the city is a worthwhile endeavor, despite having to use those robot taxis to quickly drive you away from the parts of the city (the “Tenderloin District”) with the junkies and homeless shooting up and mugging.

You’re capable of a lot more than you’re currently achieving, but the physical feelings inside your body are holding you back.

Notice how bloated, anxious, tired, foggy, icky, pained, emotionally clogged you feel moment by moment, and how it clouds your thinking.

It's fun making perplexity pages:

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/dogon-tribe-s-sirius-knowledge-967Hl_qtSgiVh7gGLw371Q

What do you notice in this chart?

Do we thank capitalism for this or nah?

The world of tomorrow should be more opulent.

What if the electricity goes out?

How many know how to build a generator from scratch, near a river, for instance?

DeepTools Video 5:

In this 30 minute video, I use Cursor and the OpenAI API to build a webapp that inputs some long text such as paper or blog post or article, and then runs it through a few different prompts to both improve and critique the text.

This time, I take the approach of writing out my code generation prompts in a file that I keep adding to as I build. This allows Cursor to have context of how the app has been built, layer by layer, and what it's meant to do.

(Link to previous video, DeepTools Video 4: https://t.me/deepthrill/454)

My source of truth today:

https://polymarket.com/event/presidential-election-winner-2024/will-donald-trump-win-the-2024-us-presidential-election?tid=1730836032869