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Posts by Cyrus

Caring isn't naive. It's just rare.

And rare things become valuable eventually.

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You get to a point where you feel naive for having values. You start to think that maybe not caring is just better strategy.

But then I realised everything I still believe in, every person I still trust, every project that's actually worked long-term is based on values.

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What if being 'good' wasn't a sacrifice but a competitive advantage?

I've recently started thinking a lot about having to choose between my values and my value. All the while watching others, even people close to me opt for max extraction or even worse...

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Working on 'human flourishing' research in AI feels like planting a garden in a server farm

Everyone tells me there will be flowers but all I smell is hot metal

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who's building alternatives?

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What if the future of life wasn’t living longer, but just making life less extractive?

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Longevity tech is cool, but the people behind it scare me more than death

They all seem obsessed with control, allergic to care, and dreaming of eternal productivity

All without any concept of what a life worth living even means.

www.nfx.com/post/longevi...

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Feels like new generations may not get the chance to actually learn how things work. Yet, we will inevitably get more done. And at some point no one will know how to really think about what any of that means.

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a major bank just fat fingered 81 trillion USD

it's all intangible and has been for a long time

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Networking is like the interplay of thought and action, a fluid dance and an open embrace.

Gathering ideas from diverse sources, weaving them together into a shared current, only to send them outward again, branching into messy directionless vectors of meaning.

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Networking is like the interplay of thought and action, a fluid dance and an open embrace.

Gathering ideas from diverse sources, weaving them together into a shared current, only to send them outward again, branching into messy directionless vectors of meaning.

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'Nature' isn’t a stage for human drama, it’s a mesh of being where objects withdraw, relate, and exist on their own terms.

A tree, a river, a mushroom, a satellite each with its own agency.

Touching yet untouchable.

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the LIBRA interview
the LIBRA interview YouTube video by voidzilla

There’s a Debordesque inevitability to how power, technology, and attention coalesced with the Milei memecoin.

The same structures of control now sit covered by a veneer of innovation sheen and cultural distraction. Same trick, different (more powerful) props.

youtu.be/EqizJTbxAEM?...

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Humans increasingly seem to fetishize 'nature' especially those ingrained in tech addicted to screens, obsessed with concepts like neutrality.

But here's the thing. Nature is a human concept inherent with bias.

It isn’t good or bad or neutral. At the right level of recule, there is no nature.

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What can we do to get attention spans back?

Simple. Embrace that attention spans are gone forever. Find tech that allow you to enjoy multimodal existence.

Or meditate, read books, take mindful walks, pay attention in conversations, stay disciplined with devices, and attentive to how you use AI.

1 year ago 1 0 0 0
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I like to think about futures as something we create, not something that just happens.

It's murky, uncertain, shifting, constantly being shaped.

Every decision, every norm, every assumption, just scaffolding for what comes next.

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I heard bluesky likes fungi, and so do I.

Today I'm doing a bit of research into fungal bioluminescence. Fascinating to think we've known about bioluminescent fungi for thousands of years (apparently they're mentioned in Aristotle’s De Anima from c. 350 BCE!)

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I find it interesting when people ask 'Is this normal?'

Normals aren't a state.

They are always contextual and temporary.

And new normals are emerging faster than ever before.

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