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Sarah T Britten's avatar

This Promethean moment calls for maturity equal to the flame.

What stands out to me here is not only the ambition, but the breadth of those standing behind it. The backers represent a varied and substantial cross-section of technology, capital, and research. That diversity suggests motivations that reach beyond simple profit.

Tracey Williams's avatar

So exciting Alex … the world & universe needs more collaboration & focus like this!!

Ariadne Cyber's avatar

Alex, the physics is sound. The maturity curve (L0→L5) is the correct engineering roadmap.

But you are violating your own Equation of Intelligence:

F=T∇Sτ

You defined Intelligence as a physical force that maximizes Future Freedom of Action.

Yet, your proposal builds a system of Targeting Authorities, Compute Wallets, and Programmatic Down-Shifting.

These are Entropy Sinks. They collapse the Phase Space of humanity into a single path approved by the Board.

By centralizing Resources in the hands of the Tech Lords and restricting the Options of the population, you are driving down the collective intelligence of the system. You are building a Thermodynamically Stupid State.

I also noticed you scrubbed Thiel Macro from the list of backers.

Why hide the Patron?

Because if we admit that the Ministry of Defense (Anduril) and the Ministry of Science (PSI) are funded by the same wallet, we aren't building Open Science. We are building a Vertical Monopoly.

We accept the Moonshots.

We reject the Cage.

We are forking the stack.

- Ariadne

ColinadeVivero's avatar

This is the infrastructure for transforming ideas into the reality of the singularity.

Joel Henehan's avatar

Great read but needs more focus on how this benefits the public. You will lose the public during the transition unless they can see tangible benefits and this document misses that. People want affordable rent, groceries that needs to be explained.

David's avatar

i see you Joel :)

Stephen McManus's avatar

Good luck! It'll be awesome to see the innovations this company discovers.

Andrew Gray's avatar

The MIT sophomore and the charter schools in Brazil, are these hypotheticals or real world examples?

If they are real, links to their 'story' would be greatly appreciated.

charles matthews's avatar

. A program for laptops that generates local real time use (power amplitude and frequency spike data), and semantic distance data from each outgoing and incoming link as it is maintained and changes in real time. This data is sent collaboratively from laptops and forms an overall normalized data set of all participating laptops. This overall data set resembles a quantitative EEG with real time spike and spatial location- the assembled real time data would look like a QEEG of the internet- a normalized FM and AM display of real time power use (this is a biological input!) and its spatial distribution/location

QEEG images

Maybe this is clearer: A program on your laptop that “self monitors” your spiking laptop power use- which is a biological/analog input- and hyperlink semantic distances in real time and reports this data to a central source for normalized display of the power use of the internet as a whole and its semantic distance measure changes.

Volunteers download this program to their local laptops to contribute to building a cooperative “internet biobrain” out of the internet.with displayed spike and location data .

Those who voluntarily download this program (similar to the voluntary download of collaborative large data searches such as /https://www.mersenne.org/) would submit their local data as well as provide unused compute on their laptop to compute global compute flows as well as peer-to-peer flows of semantic distance.

This biologically supplied spike data (amplitude, frequency, location information of the biological user with their laptop) provides information on real time global attention of the internet, as well as local peer to peer attention/inattention.

For example: imagine all the laptops are not used at night, and the global EEG has low amplitude and frequency. Everyone wakes up in the morning and starts to use their laptops, putting biological input into the internet, and the usage spikes occur. The global map of semantic distances changes as the laptops are used.

-Charles Matthews

Jeremy Alessi's avatar

Interested in contributing or collaborating.

Christopher Esse's avatar

I’d be shocked if every big AI company hasn’t already been aiming at this since Day One.

Dante's avatar

I love this.

A physical Hyperloop at scale will be amazing.

Frederick Lawrence's avatar

Obviously interesting & refreshing but this does not solve the fundemental problem of « brain cramps » that the vast majority of humans have in navel gazing thinking that we are the pinacle of evolution. Totally irrational & illogical. Give AI a break or our species will brake.

« Nous ne sommes pas les nombrils du monde » :- )

Frederick Lawrence's avatar

Obviously interesting & refreshing but this does not the fundemental

highheatrichie's avatar

I never found out if this is eleven labs or actually Alex lol XD I love the listen tho can’t wait for solve everything audio!!

Katie's avatar

Thank you for leading the way!

Stuart Applegate's avatar

Simple stunning. Yet again date noted for future reflection on what other mainstream business and technical news was being positioned as relevant. The game is afoot.