Christine Peterson
6,319 posts
Christine Peterson
@lifeext
Cofounder and Senior Fellow at Foresight Institute @foresightinst, with an interest in longevity and life extension. Coauthor of Gaming the Future (2022).
- I just attended one of their retreats. Agree it’s life-changing. I was able to get into jhana 4 repeatedly. Thanks, Jhourney!It’s exciting to see the Atlantic do a full story on @jhanatech and the potential for taking jhanas to scale. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…. A year ago, the biggest jhana story might have been Astral Codex Ten comments debating whether or not they’re real! I love to see mainstream
- Replying to @michael_nielsenSome people think “achieve dictatorship” is okay as a goal, since they believe the alternative is extinction. (Not saying I agree; this is just what I think they believe.)
- Replying to @celestialbe1ngWhich is why tattoos and piercings are unfortunate on women (men too but less so)
- Remember this time? Never againJust three years ago, 30% of Democrats believed that children should be taken away from unvaccinated parents. Nearly 50% of Democrats believed that the unvaccinated should be sent to camps. These are not tolerant, kind people. This is what a totalitarian ideology looks like.
- Nice things about JapanA lady posted about the dark side of living in Japan no one actually talks about. You will be shocked, Check thread 🤯😳
- Excited to announce I’m on the founding Board of Advisors of Ludlow Institute, fighting for privacy! @naomibrockwell writes: "I’m thrilled to share a major milestone with you: the official launch of the Ludlow Institute, an independent research and media institute dedicated to
- And yet they want to make kids get them, insanity
- Replying to @dieworkwearLet's not encourage people to steal. But second-hand stores can be great bargains; sometimes the clothes still have tags on
- I'm a guest lecturer in a new @foresightinst online course about shaping the future of AI. AI is likely to change society in dramatic ways, this course is designed to give more people tools for thinking about what we should aim for, and how to get there. The course is backed by
- Replying to @reverendmotherI think of it as more the "tech libertarians"
- This sounds extreme but I think it’s true. Let’s fix this; we can do itThe next time you see a scientist complaining about the NIH shutdown, just remember that more than half of NIH-funded papers cannot be reproduced, and that Anthony Fauci, the most powerful official at the NIH, gave us the COVID-19 pandemic which killed more than 20m people.
- Suggested changes to copyright lawSci-hub, Libgen, and Anna's Archive are services you can use to pirate books and scientific papers. The creators of these services are committed to opening up copyrighted works, despite legal risk. They're now advising the West to fix copyright law or lose the AI race.
