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- artur_maklyboth great ideas thanks. re: wire cutters im in Argentina, its all mafia owned..not worth my balls.
- “The degradation is subtle. The missing insights are rare, deferred, and distributed. Everyone notices a tenfold speed improvement; few notice the disappearance of an idea that might have changed the world.”
— funny correlation — this is the story of humanity’s biological, psychological, and philosophical evolution as well.
this is no difference.. History doing its thing again. Same Darwinian optimization, just swapped out the substrate. Silicon moves faster than carbon, which means we're speed-running toward some endpoint we can't quite see yet. Maybe we still get to choose architectural diversity before everything locks in. Or maybe we're already too late and just don't know it yet. To what final end?
Some uncanny correlations:
Biological Evolution: Just as DeepSeek's sparse attention sacrifices rare token connections for computational efficiency, biological evolution has consistently pruned "expensive" cognitive capabilities that didn't offer immediate survival advantage. The human brain operates on roughly 20 watts, an engineering marvel achieved through ruthless optimization. We lost the ability to synthesize vitamin C, to regenerate limbs, to perceive ultraviolet light, not because these capacities were useless, but because maintaining the metabolic infrastructure for rarely-used functions was too costly in ancestral environments where caloric scarcity was the norm. The neurological pathways that might have enabled eidetic memory or synesthetic cross-modal perception were likely discarded in favor of "good enough" pattern recognition optimized for predator avoidance and social navigation. Every human today is the descendant of ancestors whose brains kept the top-k survival-relevant features and let the outliers die in the attention lottery of natural selection.
Psychological Evolution: Our cognitive architecture exhibits the same sparse attention dynamics the article describes. Confirmation bias, the availability heuristic, and attentional blindness are not bugs but features, Bayesian priors that let us operate in real-time by ignoring the vast majority of sensory and conceptual space. We don't process all possible interpretations of a social interaction; we route attention to the handful that match our existing mental models, discarding the weak signals that might reveal we've misunderstood someone entirely. The psychological research on "inattentional blindness" (the invisible gorilla experiments) reveals that humans already run on learned sparsity, we literally cannot see what falls outside our predictive frame. The rare insights that change lives often come from those improbable, low-priority connections our brains almost filtered out: the shower thought, the hypnagogic flash, the accidental conversation with a stranger. Optimizing for cognitive efficiency means most humans spend their lives in a "tenfold speed improvement" of habitual thinking, never noticing the transformative ideas their sparse attention mechanisms prevented from ever reaching consciousness.
Philosophical Evolution: The history of thought reveals how philosophical paradigms function as civilizational sparse attention mechanisms, collective cognitive shortcuts that determine which questions a culture deems worth asking. The mechanistic worldview of the Enlightenment achieved extraordinary predictive power by treating nature as clockwork, but it systematically ignored (rendered computationally irrelevant) questions about consciousness, teleology, and qualitative experience. Logical positivism declared vast domains of human concern literally meaningless because they couldn't be empirically verified, a top-k selection rule for acceptable philosophical inquiry. Each dominant paradigm is a trained router deciding which intellectual pathways get attention and which get pruned. We celebrate the speed improvements: from Aristotelian physics to Newtonian mechanics in centuries, from Newtonian to relativistic in decades, from relativistic to quantum field theory in years. But the article's warning applies: we may never notice the metaphysical frameworks, the "ideas that might have changed the world," that were filtered out because they didn't fit the salience patterns of the prevailing epistemic architecture. The philosophical sparsity we inhabit isn't consciously chosen; it's the inherited result of centuries of optimizing for ideological efficiency, leaving vast regions of conceptual space unexplored because our collective attention mechanisms never computed those connections in the first place.
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- I too have made this choice with my family.. and its one hell of a positive force-factor. My mom immigrated from Kiev, with nothing and a dream for her son to have a better life in NYC. Im now taking the same risks as a 5-time entrepreneur..now living in Buenos Aires as a single dad. Enjoy the ride - its short - live your dream - steer your ship or it will be steered for you.
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- wow.. i'm amazed this happened during his lifetime - Socrates (470-399 BC)
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- The mind can be so powerful.. age is just a #
- Until plastic bags are wiped out globally - Every home should have one -;)
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- Her death was even more mysterious https://people.com/natalie-wood-death-legacy-what-to-know-86...
- Thanks for sharing this gem.
- This. Power and Control is only viable at scale when the aforementioned tacts are wielded with precision by "invisible hands" ..
History has proved that keeping society stupid and disenfranchised is essential to control.
Did you know that in the 1600s the King of England banned coffee?
Simple.. fear of evolving propagating better ideas and more intense social fraternity.
"Patrons read and debated the news of the day in coffeehouses, fueled by caffeine; the coffeehouse became a core engine of the new scientific and philosophical thought that characterized the era. Soon there were hundreds of establishments selling coffee."
https://worldhistory.medium.com/why-the-king-of-england-bann...
- Stay away from vibe coding. It will cause more stress and provoke aneurysms -;)
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- when i asked it "before i start. tell me if you can generate a database"
answer: it made this landing page: https://ai.studio/apps/drive/1sCGdqs9bCIsb0XIt2aSOTK1Fr5isUC...
"As a specialized frontend React engineer, I do not generate backend databases like PostgreSQL or MongoDB. My expertise is in building the user interface—the part of the application you see and interact with in your browser."
- what an extremely fascinating interview...and eccentric personality.