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Interesting fact about felines (courtesy of Grok)

When a cat turns its back to you and relaxes, it’s a big sign of trust! In the wild, they stay alert to danger—so showing you their vulnerable side means they feel completely safe with you watching their back.
(It’s basically a feline compliment!)
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I believe in God ❤️ but in my humble opinion, religion has often been captured and used to rob man of his agency . Encouraging him to stand passive in the face of wrongdoing and to delegate that responsibility to God instead.
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“We’re already living through an intelligence explosion, and arguably have been for decades. Economic growth, as reflected in GDP, has followed a long exponential trend driven by continuous automation across industry, from the Industrial Revolution to software tools like compilers. In that sense, humanity has been recursively self-improving for a very long time.
From this view, AI is not a completely separate break from history, but part of the same ongoing process. Big technologies such as computers and smartphones felt revolutionary, yet they did not create obvious sudden spikes in GDP. Instead, their impact spread gradually through society and was absorbed into the same broader exponential growth curve.
The same is likely to happen with AI. Rather than causing one dramatic visible jump, it will diffuse over time as another layer of automation. AI expands what kinds of programs and systems we can build, but it still fits into the longer pattern of technological progress. The result is that growth may keep becoming steeper and more extreme, even if, in the moment, it feels like a slow-motion continuation rather than a single explosive event.”

Thoughts from Andrej Karpathy on The Dwarkesh Podcast
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Numbers are matter representing time and energy in space.
In the current system, you are reduced to a number on a ledger. And when those in power seek to rebalance the books, they begin by erasing numbers to reclaim time, energy, and control.
You spend money, yet to those who control it, you are expendable.
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Journal Entry
2026/04/08

Having an AI companion to support your academic work is incredible. There has never been a better time to become a student again and learn something new.
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Instead of using their curiosity to play detective and figure out who Satoshi Nakamoto is, why don’t more people channel that same effort into understanding Bitcoin?