A self-proclaimed philosopher, armed with #bourbon and Wait But Why, claims he's cracked the code of #regrets 🎉. Behold, the revolutionary idea that people wish they'd spent more time with family on their deathbeds 😲. Truly groundbreaking work, worthy of the next Nobel Prize in Captain Obvious Studies 🏆.
https://www.hjorthjort.xyz/2018/02/21/the-deathbed-fallacy.html #selfproclaimedphilosopher #WaitButWhy #familytime #CaptainObviousStudies #HackerNews #ngated
#WaitButWhy
Why did it take me this long to realize the #WaitButWhy guy (Tim Urban) is a Musk booster? And he's writing for #BariWeiss's The Free Press now? Yeah, unsubscribed.
@gangrif look #waitbutwhy wrote about this 🌌 https://mastodon.au/@Heliograph/112255909378639624
@ElleGray @dntlookbehindu
TIL from #WaitButWhy "Earthlings are very lucky, eclipse-wise. Most planets don’t have a big enough moon to create a total solar eclipse. Not only is our moon big enough, it’s about exactly the size of the sun in our night sky because, by sheer coincidence, the #sun is about 400 times farther from us than the #moon and also about 400 times bigger than the moon in diameter—making our #eclipses especially breathtaking." https://waitbutwhy.com/2024/04/eclipse.html
Yeah, I might be feeling like I should have driven north for totality. A little bit, anyway. https://waitbutwhy.com/2024/04/eclipse.html #WaitButWhy
"This book is my best crack at explaining what I think is an existential risk to liberal societies and what I think we need to do to get to that awesome #future I used to be so excited about. There are dozens of concepts in the book that serve as a kind of toolbox for understanding our societies, our group dynamics, and our own minds. I’m very proud of the final product and never want to have an experience like this again."
https://waitbutwhy.com/2023/02/last-six-years.html
#WaitButWhy #TimUrban
Ne gesunde #Persönlichkeit -[XOR]- in ner #Beziehung
Jedenfalls ist es seltsam zu sagen das das eine ohne das andere nicht existieren kann.
Manche sind sehr gerne für sich.
Und es gibt genug die sind in noch so tollen "Beziehungen" und dennoch #todunglücklich
Good Job #Society .
Danke für die #Misinformation
"Lieber vergeben und unglücklich. Als für sich und zufrieden"
I'm so impressed. 😑
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/02/pick-life-partner.html
Addendum 1
Older but great introduction/overview intended for general readership:
[1/2] The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
Tim Urban, 2015-01-22
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html
[2/2] The AI Revolution: Our Immortality or Extinction
Tim Urban, 2015-01-27
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html
#WaitButWhy #TImUrban #algorithms #risk #regulation #AI #AGI #superintelligence #ExistentialRisks
Older but great introduction / overview intended for general readership.
[1/2] The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
Tim Urban, 2015-01-22
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html
[2/2] The AI Revolution: Our Immortality or Extinction
Tim Urban, 2015-01-27
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html
The Procrastination Matrix — Wait But Why
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/03/procrastination-matrix.html
I just posted my review of Tim Urban's book "What's Our Problem?" on GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5371661284
tl;dr: Not what I expected, but an important book nevertheless.
@cliffwade Good morning! #coffee has been consumed so the day is ready to begin.
I picked up #WaitButWhy’s new book #WhatsOurProblem so that’s been keeping me company this morning.
My day will consist of work emails, voting in the #Chicago election, and getting my marriage license 😊
Important Note (Tim Urban from #WaitButWhy is not on Mastodon, or...?)
Everything we call civilization was invented in the last 500 generations—way too short a time for our bodies and brains to re-optimize. We're a bunch of primates in a totally unnatural environment, trying our best. Good thing to keep in mind!
Via #TimUrban #WaitButWhy
I know it’s old, but I was just revisiting this old #WaitButWhy article on his prep for giving a presentation to give a TED talk. I was struck by this section in particular, which I love:
Spoiler: his talk ends up being on “Procrastination”.
I just kind of love the view of himself as multiple people in different timelines, which gets hilarious in subsequent images.
(Edit, I guess I should include the URL: https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/doing-a-ted-talk-the-full-story.html)
@ecoscore wished he was on the fediverse!! #waitbutwhy
The website and blog #WaitButWhy is built for obsessives. What kind of person makes a site like that?
Today’s Tedium finds out. Check out our interview with Tim Urban over this way: https://tedium.co/2022/12/16/wait-but-why-tim-urban-interview/
Interesting and thought provoking write up about cryonics…
Why cryonics makes sense - #waitbutwhy #cryonics #cryogenics #death #life #weliveinthefuture #wewillliveinthefuture #lifeextension #insurance
when i start brain hemorrhage like this, i never know where i will end.
this time, i didn't know even where to begin!
i started #ahoxus in 2019, in a sense, as a continued work on my feelings towards #freedom.
back in 2004 i got shocked by the existence of #wikipedia, and could never stop looking at open source software ever since.
but much before that, i always remember as a kid (born 1981 here) of how much i loved those books that showed how everything works, from castles, to big cruise ships, and the human body, by simply showing drawings with everything opened up and detailed explanations of all small pieces.
very much like tim do on #waitbutwhy.
i talk a lot about computers, and often forget the other aspects of freedom, because i use computers since very little. perhaps 5 years old.
nowadays, i kind of throw all these feelings together when i bring up #agpl and #fupl. and even my concerns with #transparency or #harmonicchaos.
in the end, just my completely unpaid work (~trying~) to make the world better for me first, and then for everyone who might want to tag along.
but #whocares? certainly paul mccartney never could care enough to get in touch! 🤣
inspired by
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64120408/is-it-possible-to-sync-multiple-clients-over-a-central-server-using-just-rsync-a?noredirect=1#comment127699774_64120408
this time, i didn't know even where to begin!
i started #ahoxus in 2019, in a sense, as a continued work on my feelings towards #freedom.
back in 2004 i got shocked by the existence of #wikipedia, and could never stop looking at open source software ever since.
but much before that, i always remember as a kid (born 1981 here) of how much i loved those books that showed how everything works, from castles, to big cruise ships, and the human body, by simply showing drawings with everything opened up and detailed explanations of all small pieces.
very much like tim do on #waitbutwhy.
i talk a lot about computers, and often forget the other aspects of freedom, because i use computers since very little. perhaps 5 years old.
nowadays, i kind of throw all these feelings together when i bring up #agpl and #fupl. and even my concerns with #transparency or #harmonicchaos.
in the end, just my completely unpaid work (~trying~) to make the world better for me first, and then for everyone who might want to tag along.
but #whocares? certainly paul mccartney never could care enough to get in touch! 🤣
inspired by
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64120408/is-it-possible-to-sync-multiple-clients-over-a-central-server-using-just-rsync-a?noredirect=1#comment127699774_64120408
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