It would actually be far more interesting and surprising if there IS some ineffable quality that creates a hard limit in AI capabilities! As close to a natural experiment on materialist epistemology as I can think of.

Doesn't feel like we're prepared, economically or psychologically, for that hard reality.

Lots of hedging from scientists quoted in the article but mostly of the "I want to see more confirmatory data" and less of the "ehh not sure I buy it" variety
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

Send storytellers my way! More details and link to the application here: holy-bell-7fc.notion.site/Storytelling...

It's an exciting moment to help tell the @southparkcommons.bsky.social story. We have some very big content initiatives in the works that you'll play a crucial role in.

I think SPC has PMF, but we need your help to show the world why and how.

This will be a writing-first but not writing-only role. I'm looking for someone comfortable across content format, style, and tone—essays to threads, technical to narrative.

You have to be excited about technology and startups, but don't have to come from that world.

I want those people liking the more optimistic posts!!

You have to reduce the barriers to building parks if you want to avoid a society of walled gardens.

It can be effective politics in the short term, but unless you pair it with an aggressive commitment to dismantling the vetocracy that makes it impossible to build anything, the doom loop will continue.

The left is stuck in the doom loop of asking taxpayers for more money for projects with decreasing returns, or, in the case of CA HSR, no returns at all. If you want an egalitarian society with strong public funding of common goods, you have to prove you can build and defend those goods!

It is a profound stain on the reputations of both the nation’s highest office and its most prominent entrepreneur to act this way