Current social systems are not smart. They don’t even try to be. They are optimizing for attention.

Each social media network is a unique information ecosystem. The design, the policies, the community. It all creates a vibe. Now I don’t really have a… • 4

With scale comes communication problems. On-boarding while critical becomes messy. Processes while crucial become fragile. Goals and decisions become misunderstood.

Midflip has designed a social network + wiki specialized to address these problems. W… • 4

Understand yourself to control yourself. And Dopamine is the neurotransmitter to know. In a complex interplay, it regulates actions, habits and rewards.

Best Youtube video on this.

More details of dopamine and habit formation

Dopamine is a … • 1

Our current AI models have massive problems. They do not plan. They gravitate towards normalcy. Their world model is NOT a set of functional components. This does not mean we will not solve these issues. Current LLMs are likely over hyped. Future AI … • 1

Improving in a creative direction is hard. Really hard. That’s why most people simply copy what has been done before. But now everyone and their AI can do that.

So, we turn to the difficult road… but perhaps the more meaningful one.

Creating somet… • 3

Artificial Intelligence is based on optimization. A measurable goal is set, and the system updates to better achieve that goal. This ALWAYS involves maximizing or minimizing a number.

We have gotten pretty clever with maximizing and minimizing numbe… • 0

For hundreds of millions of years the DNA has been dealing with its own alignment problem. It needed the organisms it created to survive, thrive, and reproduce.

We often take for granted that organisms want to do these things. However, in reality it … • 2