Educator ~ Chemical Engineer ~ T.R.I.C.K. Ambassador ~ Active Global Citizen ~ Blockchain enthusiast | @SenseiCibus
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Changs retweeted
"I don't care what field you're in, you should be playing with this stuff. It has the potential to impact your role in your career, and the best way to protect against any risk of your career being obfuscated or eliminated from AI is to be the most AI-enabled version of yourself you can possibly be." — @bgurley
Changs retweeted
Imagine having a personal tutor that perfectly understands your unique set of talents, your learning style, and your potential, and then accompanies you—and only you—throughout your ENTIRE student life.
Unprecedented. This is how you use AI. To bring out the best in humanity.
Changs retweeted
THE PHYSICS OF MONEY JUST CHANGED FOREVER
For 10,000 years, humanity faced one impossible problem: Energy cannot be stored. Energy cannot be transported. Energy dies the moment it is born unused.
Until now.
Jensen Huang, CEO of the $4.5 trillion company that powers artificial intelligence, just stated what changes everything:
“Bitcoin is taking excess energy and storing it as a new form called currency. You take that currency wherever you’d like. You took energy from one place and transported it everywhere.”
Read that again.
The numbers are staggering.
In 2024 alone, Texas was forced to throw away 8 terawatt hours of wind and solar energy. Brazil discarded 28 terawatt hours in eight months. Globally, over $20 billion in clean energy vanishes annually because grids cannot absorb it.
Bitcoin mining now consumes 211 terawatt hours per year. 52.4% from renewable and nuclear sources. Miners co-locate at stranded energy sites, converting worthless surplus into globally transferable value.
This is not digital gold. This is something physics has never permitted before.
For the first time in human history, energy has become portable. Joules transformed into hashes. Hashes settled into satoshis. Satoshis moved across borders at the speed of light.
The sun sets in Arizona. That captured sunlight arrives in Tokyo as money.
Wind dies in West Texas. That momentum resurfaces in London as settlement.
Critics said Bitcoin wastes electricity. The man whose chips process most of the world’s AI workloads just told you the opposite: Bitcoin is the battery that never existed. The transmission line that needs no wire. The export of energy without the tanker.
The implications are civilizational.
Stranded renewables become profitable. Remote regions become energy exporters. The economics of electricity generation inverts permanently.
Energy is no longer trapped.
Energy is now free.
Changs retweeted
The Doorman Fallacy
'You have a five-star hotel and it has a doorman, welcoming incoming guests.
McKinsey or Accenture will come in and say, “Your doorman currently costs you X thousand dollars a year. We have defined his or her function as opening the door. We’ll replace said doorman with an automatic door-opening mechanism and an infrared human detector and we’ll save you $30–$40,000 a year.”
They walk away, and they take the credit for the cost savings. Two years later, the hotel’s a catastrophe ... because the doorman was doing multiple things, many of which were human and kind of tacit.
Security would be one; there are no vagrants asleep in the doorway. Hailing taxis, dealing with luggage, recognizing regular guests, providing status to the hotel—there are loads and loads of value creation components to that doorman which aren’t captured in the open-the-door definition."
It's easy to see the visible things, but the invisible things make the difference.
Changs retweeted
If you haven’t watched “The Thinking Game” yet, do it.
It’s a rare insight into legit genius, as it follows @demishassabis and @ShaneLegg from their earliest moments of prescience, through each of their world changing achievements (up to and including a Nobel).
They’re just really kind ppl too.
I stan ❤️
Changs retweeted
The best investment right now is your understanding of exponential technologies and how they impact our world.
Changs retweeted
I'm Italian.
Everyone asks me about moving to Italy. But Italy isn't for everyone.
I've isolated 4 specific profiles. For these, it might be the best decision you ever make.
Here's who should actually consider it (and who shouldn't):
Changs retweeted
A 15-year-old has just earned a PhD in quantum physics.
Laurent Simons, a Belgian child prodigy, has blazed an academic trail unmatched by almost anyone else on the planet, accelerating through education at a velocity that defies norms.
He began primary school at age four and wrapped it up by six. At twelve, he already held a master's degree in quantum physics, delving into bosons, black holes, and the intricate mathematics unraveling the universe's deepest enigmas.
This week, the boy hailed as Belgium's "Little Einstein" defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Antwerp, cementing his status as one of the youngest physics PhDs in recorded history. His research tackled advanced concepts—like Bose polarons in superfluids and supersolids—that most scholars wouldn't touch until their twenties or thirties. Yet for Laurent, this path has been profoundly intimate: the loss of his grandparents at eleven ignited a fire in him to unravel the secrets of longevity—not for personal gain, but to grant others extended, vibrant years.
Experts marvel at his prodigious memory and IQ of 145, a rarity shared by just 0.1 percent of the population. Tech giants from the U.S. and China have dangled lucrative offers to his family, but his parents have rebuffed them, championing his right to evolve on his own terms.
Laurent doesn't claim the absolute youngest PhD title—that belongs to Karl Witte, who graduated at thirteen in 1814—but in contemporary physics, his feat stands virtually unparalleled.
Now fifteen, he's poised to pivot from quantum realms to medical frontiers, eyeing a second doctorate in medical AI to pioneer breakthroughs in aging. His audacious vision? Crafting "superhumans" through innovations that conquer mortality's puzzles—a domain exploding with promise yet riddled with enigmas.
Quantum trailblazer or medical revolutionary, Laurent Simons is poised on the cusp: his extraordinary odyssey has only just ignited.
Changs retweeted
ELON MUSK: IF YOUR JOB INVOLVES MOVING ATOMS, YOU’RE SAFE. IF IT INVOLVES MOVING DIGITS, AI IS TAKING OVER LIKE LIGHTNING
"AI is really still digital. Ultimately, AI can improve the productivity of humans who do things with their hands
Literally welding, electrical work, plumbing, anything that involves physically moving atoms. Like cooking food or farming; anything that's physical, those jobs will exist for a much longer time
But anything that is digital, which is just someone at a computer doing something, AI is going to take over those jobs like lightning
It's going to take over those jobs like lightning. Just like digital computers took over the job of people doing manual calculations, but much faster"
Changs retweeted
Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
Changs retweeted
A number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights:
1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop. All "detectors" of AI imo don't really work, can be defeated in various ways, and are in principle doomed to fail. You have to assume that any work done outside classroom has used AI.
2. Therefore, the majority of grading has to shift to in-class work (instead of at-home assignments), in settings where teachers can physically monitor students. The students remain motivated to learn how to solve problems without AI because they know they will be evaluated without it in class later.
3. We want students to be able to use AI, it is here to stay and it is extremely powerful, but we also don't want students to be naked in the world without it. Using the calculator as an example of a historically disruptive technology, school teaches you how to do all the basic math & arithmetic so that you can in principle do it by hand, even if calculators are pervasive and greatly speed up work in practical settings. In addition, you understand what it's doing for you, so should it give you a wrong answer (e.g. you mistyped "prompt"), you should be able to notice it, gut check it, verify it in some other way, etc. The verification ability is especially important in the case of AI, which is presently a lot more fallible in a great variety of ways compared to calculators.
4. A lot of the evaluation settings remain at teacher's discretion and involve a creative design space of no tools, cheatsheets, open book, provided AI responses, direct internet/AI access, etc.
TLDR the goal is that the students are proficient in the use of AI, but can also exist without it, and imo the only way to get there is to flip classes around and move the majority of testing to in class settings.
