Tеrror supporters igniting fires and causing chaos at the Israeli Philharmonic in Paris. The orchestra responded by playing Hatikvah.💅

"The thing about Darwin is how un-special he was. He was a normal kid, [but] he had a passion...naturalism. He was terrible at school... ...through his passion, he encountered unique ideas." ~Conjecture Institute Fellow Eric Denton w/ Ambassador @ToKTeacher

1 Super interesting paper. Life = information + physics. If the laws of physics allow information to be stored and copied, then replication, self-reproduction, and evolution all follow naturally.

A great way to feel better is to solve problems, which requires new thoughts. Trying to stop thoughts, or ignore them, doesn’t solve problems, so it’s a waste of time. I mean, if you enjoy it, great. But I think its virtues are inauthentic. I think it’s demeaning, treating our greatest gift as a liability that needs to be controlled, suppressed, or escaped from. It’s also blockheaded, as if going through the motions of a sage makes you a sage. Or acting out equanimity produces equanimity. I particularly dislike seeing adults try to convince kids that it’s a virtue. And I’ve sent years mediating and have done several silent retreats. I look back on it as wasted time.

I like Aaron's book and it gave me a great new perspective on parenting, but come on dawg, let Gen Z rediscover meditation

🚨 GEN Z IS PUTTING THEMSELVES IN “TIMEOUT” - AND CALLING IT HEALING No phone. No TV. No music. No food. Just silence. They’re calling it “raw dogging boredom.” 15 minutes of sitting completely still with zero distractions. Some say it’s weird. Others say it’s genius. Is this the dumbest trend yet or the smartest thing we’ve seen in years?

I’m having @astupple out to north Austin to discuss parenting. Two weeks from today. I am ~70% extremely sympathetic to what Aaron is doing, and 30% quite critical. So I cannot wait to talk. I expect to learn a lot. The topic: freedom in childhood. He wrote a book on it.

Elon Musk watching himself on Joe Rogan

I used to find physics boring... now I do research in quantum physics & quantum computing. This is my journey into quantum! From the books I read at 15 to undergrad & PhD in fundamental physics at Oxford to working in 3 different quantum companies. 00:00 Intro 00:14 Early Days (physics is boring?) 03:37 Undergrad & Constructor Theory 06:40 How I got into Quantum Computing 10:29 Raspberry Pi Quantum Computer 11:35 PhD & Quantum Paradoxes videos (IBM Quantum) 15:00 Quantum YouTube & Podcast 16:22 Joining Industry (OQC) & Creating Content

Just for the fun of it: bretthall.org/speaking.html

@CABedardPhysics Explaining Bell locally @ChipkinLogan The West, Institutions, and Applied Optimism @Ray_S_Percival Who Is the Real Threat to Autonomy and Flourishing Online? @tomhyde_ Words Worthy of Us

I’m saying the two pillars of AI Doom are incompatible. 1- It’s too smart for us to stop 2- It’s too dumb to not kill us all AI Doomers toggle between these. “What if we did X to stop it?” Too smart for that! “Wouldn’t it realize that the only other intelligence is special and worth preserving?” Too dumb! You can’t have it both ways. If it’s smart, it knows it’s fallible, it knows not to be rash, it knows it can build on the moon. And if it’s dumb (can’t change its primary goals, can’t think of why preserving people is a good idea, can’t be reasoned with - ie a super blockhead), well then it can’t learn and become powerful.

My son, regularly offers third options that everyone is thankful for. The other day I had to make a run to the drug store at night to get some milk,and my son wanted to come…But my daughter also wanted to come, and truth be told I kinda didn’t want to take both kids. I was trying to explain why I didn’t want two kids to come, and justify it somehow (like because she recently had a cold, and it’s chilly outside), but really I just didn’t want to carry her (I carry her all over the place, lol) and my son was like, “you said you wanted someone to play Roblox with you, how about you stay with mom and play Roblox?” Mom says, “Ok!”Daughter exclaims, “Yay!” And I’m like, “sweet, let’s roll!” Brilliant, everyone was down, no further discussion, no crying, no arguing, everyone happy doing something fun. I dunno, this may seem like a stupid example to some, but if you’ve ever had a difference of opinion between 4 people, including young children, I hope you can see the significance. The crazy thing about new ideas, seemingly big or seemingly small, is that you really can’t predict where they’re going to come from. And a good new idea doesn’t feel like “criticism” at all if you’re in the flow, and not stuck. And that may be my biggest gripe with “Critical Rationalism.”