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Idea Machines, AI videos, and TikTok primitives

Rhys Lindmark
Jun 20
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This century is a turning point in human history. Let’s navigate it together.

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Hey team! Links post this week.

FUN LINKS

TikTok

  • Amazing cat photography 😮

  • Relationship podcasts 😂

The Onion

  • Christian Parents Encourage Child To Save Self For Church Leader

  • Politician Supports Right Of Protesters To Assemble Anywhere SUV Can Plow Through Them

Babylon Bee

  • Explorers Discover Remote Island Untouched By Pride Month

  • Hispanics Just Voting For Whichever Candidate Isn't Calling Them 'Latinx'

TOTALLY UNFUN, SERIOUS LINKS

0/ Article of the Year. Idea Machines by Nadia Asparouhova.

How “idea machines” (memeplexes) spread through financial capital + people capital turning into outcomes.

See effective altruism, retroactive public goods funding, and progress studies.

1/ What I’m reading. Books on paleoanthropology to understand how homo sapiens evolved.

The Third Chimpanzee, Lone Survivors, After The Ice.

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2/ Cool new AI music videos.

First one uses lyrics to generate DALL-E-style GAN images:

3/ Second one uses deep fakes to change who is singing:

4/ Private companies, not academia, control the AI frontier.

Twitter avatar for @jackclarkSFJack Clark @jackclarkSF
It's covered a bit in the above podcast by people like @katecrawford - there's huge implications to industrialization, mostly centering around who gets control of the frontier, when the frontier becomes resource intensive. So far control is accruing to the private sector (uh oh!)
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June 8th 2022

78 Retweets398 Likes

4/ Packy on Optimism and the Abundance Economy.

5/ In 1948, the UN ratified the Declaration of Human Rights. We need a Declaration of Obligations.

6/ Clear, specific example from Liv Boeree on how Moloch + AI drives a negative arms race for Instagram beauty.

7/ Although U.S. adults haven’t really changed their views on abortion in 50 years…

How has public opinion about abortion changed since Roe v. Wade? | PBS  NewsHour

…Young American support is increasing.

8/ Extremely interesting self-license for future simulations to use your mind with good intentions.

9/ 12-year-old Palestinian kid raps about growing up in a war zone.

I want freedom for the population
2 million prisoners living in dislocation
Shouting at the wall, but nothing is ever changing
That's life under an occupation

10/ American Idle, by Eugene Wei. A+ sequel to his old post, Status as a Service.

On how TikTok works as a memetic ecosystem.

TikTok is perhaps the most evolved meme ecosystem to date.

By network effects of creativity, I mean that every additional user on TikTok makes every other user more creative.

TikTok's Duet feature belongs in the social media hall of fame of primitives alongside features like Follow and the Like button.

11/ Infinite depth 3D canvas:

Twitter avatar for @Mental_CanvasMental Canvas @Mental_Canvas
Congratulations to Greg Edwards, who won First Place in the Napkin Sketch Category of the #ReimagineDrawingChallenge! Daydream with Greg, and dive deep into his fantastical imagination. #art #artist #sketching #visionary #3dart #mentalcanvas #artcontest

March 29th 2022

11 Retweets59 Likes

12/ Evolution of humanoid robots. 2040 will be cool and scary.

Twitter avatar for @Rainmaker1973Massimo @Rainmaker1973
This video shows the evolution of humanoid robots from 2009 up today [source, full video, from 1980:
buff.ly/3FQFBa7]

May 15th 2022

1,153 Retweets5,202 Likes

13/ Good 30min video on how we need to return to a simplified energy lifestyle if we can get renewables, nuclear, and fusion figured out:

14/ New post from Vitalik: Two thought experiments to evaluate automated stablecoins. We should socially shame all new Luna-style volcoins that break these two experiments.

15/ Crypto crash is re-syncing market cap to developer activity.

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16/ Uvalde newspaper on May 24.


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  • Protocol Labs network is hiring

  • Carbon Wallet, Coinbase for Climate Assets, is hiring a product co-founder

  • Chorus One is hiring a PM for Node-as-a-Service

  • Join Season 7 for The Intentional Society.

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  • Work in Web3

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EVENTS

  • The Cultural Evolution Society Conference. 21-23 September 2022. Denmark.

  • Upcoming ETH events

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MUSIC

This music section often has TikTok duets.

This one is 10/10: fun topic (crypto), great puns, smooth mashup.


Hope you have a great week!

Warmth, Rhys

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