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"hyperexponentiall" is not a word. It's a marketing device. Same way 
promised he would send humans to Mars by 2024 at the latest. It's vaporware desperate to get suckers to invest, invest, invest.
There are so many dumbass function names including those that are dramatically faster changing than exponentials and he still couldn't be fucked to pick one. Which he purportedly should know since he's supposed to have gotten into the Stanford physics PhD program.
I legit thought all his science credentials were awarded honorarily by institutions to solicit donations.
You'd think but no, he's lying about his undergrad degrees even. My cats have the same amount of physics degrees as peelon
I remember when he was doing that physics shit and he showed some of his homework that was highschool-grade kinematics or some shit
This is the exact same sort of handwavey vaguely technical bullshit 
uses to justify his belief in a computer god lmao
Who's this?
Eliezer Yudkowsky, an AI "researcher" who has done no actual AI research nor produced any work in the field yet gets taken seriously by people with a lot of money.
Funny how that works. Where do people like that even come from? I'm barely taken seriously at the job I do everyday.
It's what happens when the means of production are owned by people who have no idea what they're doing but are happy to signal boost people who tell them what they want to hear.
investors get extremely excitable when scam artists promise exponential growth
"hyperexponentially" is the sort of word-like sound your mouth makes when a silicon wafer has been wedged into a vital part of Broca's area and programmed to administer random shocks.
Notice he said 'Well articulated' and not 'accurate'. Psuedo-intellectual drivel.
This is the "genius" that from the looks of it doesn't even know what exponentiality means. If I remember correctly from covid, it doesn't even take an exponent base below 2 for a full blown pandemic to happen, but fucking Einstein over here thinks exponential is not enough
The word "victim" would be a lot more honest than "patient".
If I buy a smartwatch and graft it to my wrist, do I become an augmented human?
yes, until the company gets bought by another company and its servers are shut down, largely rendering it useless
Signed, a former avid pebble user who's still too bitter to try other smartwatches (even though they're a great accessibility tool for my adhd ass)
What features did you find help with managing your ADHD?
It's been years, but the big ones I still remember:
Just mirroring texts and similar notifications to my wrist — that allowed me to triage them without pulling out my phone and potentially getting sucked into a vortex. Getting the full content of messages without having to do something that cleared that notification (i.e. erase all traces of someone ever trying to contact me) made it a lot easier to reply to things quickly instead of getting stuck in a cycle of not replying and feeling guilty about it.
Having quick access to a timer or stopwatch function (again without pulling out ~~the distraction vortex~~ my phone)
Having vibrate-only alarms that were harder to miss than my phone's vibrate function, and easier to acknowledge and snooze or dismiss. (That one's kind of AuDHD — I never set auditory alarms bc they're so overstimulating)
Thanks for replying! I quit drinking and recently realized how ADHD was at the core of why I was anxious, depressed, and self-medicating with alcoholism. I kind of switch back and forth between "I should automate and use my phone to keep track of everything" and "I need to get rid of my phone entirely" so I'll keep a smartwatch in mind as an option if I choose that route. I'm going to see a specialist soon who will hopefully help me sort out what I want to do (they will not just prescribe medication because I'm in my 30s and have had substance abuse issues)
I can DIY a smart watch then! (It just won't be water proof to the same degree)
You can "water-resist" most electronics with hot-snot and nail polish.
Unironically, Donna Haraway, an ecofeminist thinker, wrote a really interesting and fun essay (which later became a book) about this topic called A Cyborg Manifesto, and how the boundary of "the body" is not as clear cut as we normally think it is.
Really recommend her stuff.
I've increased the intra-modular data flume and jiggered the tetrahedrometer stasis conduits to hyperposition the plasma bearings. The retrofitted skiff-pontoons are functioning at niner-niner delta percent.
I do numbers for a living and these numbers check out
I'm sorry for 
, but 'hyperexponential' is a word, and what 
is trying to say it's that the thing's adoption will grow in a manner best described by a function that is not O(e^t) as t->inf.
This is obviously going to be another 'I will colonise Hyperloop and build Mars by 2021' scam.
Have the actual uses of the brain chip ever actually been described? Like is it supposed to interface with your brain like a ram upgrade, improving all your cognition? Or it it supposed to be like, an Alexa nobody else can hear? What are the people who get excited about this getting excited about? Is it completely and only the opportunity to have a small piece of musk-tech implanted in their brains?
Yeah I'm going to let musk take an ice pick to my brain, I don't need to see or think 
Honestly, I don't hate it. I hate the guy that said it, but the meaning is clear enough and sticks to common rules for making up words in english.
It's about as valid as "hypersonic missiles" which are just supersonic missiles with extra steps.
If x^2 is exponential, x^200 is still exponential, but with a more extreme curve
Math fun fact time:
Neither x^2 and x^200 are exponential growth, they are polynomial growth. 2^x or 200^x would be exponential growth. After a certain point, all exponential curves will outpace any polynomial curve.
So after a certain x, 2^x will outpace even x^200. This happens at around x=2224, after which 2^x will always be bigger than x^200.
If you know the rules for indices and logarithms, you can see why this is. We can take the logarithm of both functions which converts them both into slower forms that we can understand easily.
log(2^x) simplifies to x log(2), which grows linearly. However, log(x^200) simplifies to 200 log(x), which grows according to log(x), a painfully slow growing function that quickly grinds to a near halt.
Is "Factorially" a thing?
Never heard the term used before but it gets the point across so it's a perfectly valid term in my book 🤷♀️
usually factorial growth is just described as superexponential cause often all you need to get across is the idea that this thing grows stupid fast and it's not viable for use
We can make it a thing
"... a month after we have a real self driving car".
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