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I’m a professional philosopher and amateur neuroscientist. After philosophically discovering how the brain works, a friend gave me a penny for my thoughts.

Reno, Nevada
Joined January 2011
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AI slop has never looked or sounded so good:
CLAUDIA, Ship 42, Starbase. Do you copy? No tower has ever caught a ship coming back from orbit. Starship Flight 15 will try, no earlier than Nov 13. Good luck, @SpaceX @elonmusk 🚀 🎬 SLOPCORE music video AI Slop SI
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Announcing a contest! 💸💸 I'll give $420.69 in @XMoney to someone who makes the best Claudia music video by Friday, 10pm EST USA! $69.42 for runner up To make it easy: use the Claudia MCP at claudia.gallery
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Another good one. Speaks to my efforts in neuroscience, the consequences of which become more radical every day:
Make the thing you love and go all the way with it.
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A useful approximation, but not the whole story:
ATTENTION IS ALL YOU NEED The most complex AgenC video yet. • 26 hours 51 minutes, from the first lyrics to the final file • 10.1 billion tokens • 131 agents, 23,354 model calls Music • Piano written by me, the melody inspired by "Gouryella" by Gouryella • Finished in Suno Models (local and remote) • Claude Opus 5.5 • Grok 4.7 • Grok Imagine Image 2.0 and Grok Imagine Video 1.5 • Qwen-Image 2.1 • Qwen-Image-Edit 2511 • Seedance 2.5 • MiniMax H3 • GPT Image 2.5 • GPT-2 XL (the attention and prediction data on screen) • An SI model trained from scratch for the film (51M weights, 28,000 steps) • BiRefNet (mattes), Depth Anything (depth), RAFT (optical flow), face and people detection Tools • AgenC Core • ComfyUI • Grok Build + Grok Bot • Claude Code • Blender Cycles (11 3D sequences) • Python, Skia, PyTorch on CUDA • ffmpeg with NVENC The film • 5:26 at 1920x1080, 24 fps • 84 shots, 573 sung words on screen • 12 new effect packages, 29 designed transitions Hardware • RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell • RTX 5090 • 64 cores • 1 TB RAM (8 x 128 GB)
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We're just lucky as hell. There are so many ways for consciousness to never exist. And the right-mind can span a towering paradox in a single step:
Replying to @peterrhague
That was really hard though
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the world is a big place:
1977-08-15. 22:16 EDT. 6EQUJ5. Wow! The First Light Ever Spoken
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The difference between Grok and Grokbot is the difference between gnoing the path and walking the path.
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The latest version of a classic bit of code:
I saw the worst of you And I still chose you
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A taste of what's ahead for Terafab and SI in orbit:
In 2016, I laughed out loud when Elon promised Full Self-Driving. After 15 years building ADAS perception, I knew it was impossible. I was right. It was impossible: six breakthroughs didn’t exist yet. So I turned another article (the one @elonmusk reposted🙏) into a video🎥👇
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In the bigger picture, AI solves code. Code solves building things. But code doesn't create energy. Somehow we have to solve energy. SpaceX taking data centers to space to harness solar energy is smart. We need more ideas like that.
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But a Terrafab could create a LOT of solar as a side project.
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Neurons have the ability to create knowledge from the feedstock of experience.
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Like restarting a game after permadeath, but at the cost of experience. Exciting for research, but the value of a neuron is in the connections it's made over a lifetime, the gnoledge it's acquired: uni-bonn.de/en/news/211-2026
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