Accordingly to actuarial tables Trump likely has 8 more years to live. I do wish the EU understood they can’t meekly outwait or outlast him—they have to unify to oppose him directly, and do it quickly before he takes them down with us.
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8 years? I doubt it he’s in early to mid stage dementia.
aug 23, 2025, 3:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, I know. People can live decades with dementia though.
aug 25, 2025, 2:21 am • 0 0 • view
But likely can’t lead a country
aug 28, 2025, 12:25 am • 1 0 • view
Clearly not!
aug 28, 2025, 12:27 am • 0 0 • view
Like what evolutionary biologists call adaptive radiation, which is mostly triggered by environmental shifts, we're witnessing rapid diversification across multiple domains simultaneously - artificial intelligence, biotechnology, space exploration, renewable energy, etc /3
aug 22, 2025, 11:32 am • 0 0 • view
We don’t have AGI, we aren’t going to live in space for a very long time—possibly ever. We will get some minerals though and so on.
aug 22, 2025, 11:42 am • 1 0 • view
Totally agree. The mirage is a product
aug 22, 2025, 11:43 am • 1 0 • view
OK. But some of this is hokum.
aug 22, 2025, 11:41 am • 1 0 • view
Of course it is
aug 22, 2025, 11:42 am • 1 0 • view
Human cultural norms and our most well established societal structures are all being challenged as everything around us undergoes explosive change within the same compressed timeframe. What historically took centuries now unfolds in decades or years. /4
aug 22, 2025, 11:32 am • 0 0 • view
It sure feels like we're living through one of those rare periods where the normal rules of gradual change do not apply any more. Traditional timelines and norms are giving way to transformational acceleration that will fundamentally reshape human civilization. /5
aug 22, 2025, 11:32 am • 0 0 • view
Some people embrace transformation and navigate. Others do not. One approach survives. Just for fun, I would like to share that I am actually thinking a lot about The Wonder Twins these days and their amazing ability to transform and shapesgift. 'form of a pail of water! 🦅🪣💦 Such power 😉 /6
aug 22, 2025, 11:32 am • 1 0 • view
I am not sure if you think WE will shapeshift. I believe we are irreducibly biological —though of course we can do a lot within those parameters, possibly many things we haven’t thought of yet.
aug 22, 2025, 11:43 am • 1 0 • view
Unfortunately I think Google Glass was a hokey preview of a hybrid human computer future where people graft technology onto themselves. I expect also that nanobots will be deployed instead of scalpels on the future like so many little scrubbing bubbles 😂 youtu.be/EFeEMx7ElBg?...
aug 22, 2025, 11:48 am • 1 0 • view
A progressive wippenpoof shared this book with me during college back in the 90s. I thought that maybe the author WR may be dead now but not according to Claude. See Alt Text. His metaphors addressing "the cost of humans using technology" are grotesque and timeless Nerd to read it again
aug 22, 2025, 12:00 pm • 1 0 • view
* whiffenpoof (typo) My apologies. It's a tiny keyword. ✌️
aug 22, 2025, 12:03 pm • 1 0 • view
But seriously, Hungarian refugee and Berkeley PhD Andy Grove joined Fairchild Semiconductor in 1963 as a researcher, becoming assistant director of development by 1967. At Fairchild, he pioneered crucial MOS device research alongside the founders who revolutionized integrated circuits.. /7
 [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove) .](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j4qhfrunwhqul2z4ndofkgut/bafkreibvkmltvh6kzf2uyi5ss4ekizxohyc62crfi6k5hkcvxdykl5s2au@jpeg)
aug 22, 2025, 11:32 am • 1 0 • view
When Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore left Fairchild to co-found Intel in 1968, Grove joined on incorporation day as employee #4, bringing the revolutionary MOS technology that would power the microprocessor revolution. Grove's "Only the Paranoid Survive" centers on "Strategic Inflection Points" /8
aug 22, 2025, 11:32 am • 1 0 • view
These are moments when 10X forces create fundamental disruption. Like punctuated equilibrium's rapid evolutionary bursts, we're going through an inflection point where AI, biotechnology & climate change converge simultaneously /9
aug 22, 2025, 11:32 am • 0 0 • view
Dr. Grove warned that success during disruptive transformational requires abandoning old paradigms — precisely what our era of simultaneous technological and social adaptive radiation demands. Grove's survival principles for turbulent times boil down to four key survival imperatives. /10
aug 22, 2025, 11:32 am • 0 0 • view
Dr Andy Grove's Survival Imperatives ~1 Watch the periphery. That is where early signals first emerge ~2 Act before certainty. Late costs more than early ~3 Cannibalize yourself first. Before competitors do ~4 Welcome harsh truths. Encourage uncomfortable debate /11
aug 22, 2025, 11:32 am • 0 1 • view
These four imperatives could not be more important during this current period of punctuated equilibrium. Today's 'leading' tech companies are geriatric, stagnant and culturally off-track. Evolutionary groupthink built upon the momentum of success is antithetical to disruptive innovation. /12
aug 22, 2025, 11:32 am • 0 1 • view
In this current era we have already experienced a cultural and technological punctuation events of unprecedented scale. /2
 [Biology Insights](https://biologyinsights.com/punctuated-equilibrium-theory-of-rapid-speciation/) , while adaptive radiation describes the mechanism - how organisms rapidly diversify into multiple new forms when environmental pressures create new opportunities or niches. These](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j4qhfrunwhqul2z4ndofkgut/bafkreigaffgic4q5m4d7af4putxyryiatv75jgwzpkm2rrmjqviemh2bny@jpeg)
aug 22, 2025, 10:05 am • 1 0 • view
Makes you wonder what of anything Barack and Angela think of their legacy. For a tube there, we had an opportunity to elevate humanity and accelerate progress. It feels like we'll be digging out of this trench for decades at this moment. So much delusional outdated geriatric thinking remains... /1
aug 22, 2025, 9:53 am • 5 0 • view
It’s strange that none of these people—who I am entirely sure are smarter than I am?—did not see the dangers —Obama would say things that made you sure he must. But he did not. Perhaps once a person is insulated too much by privilege they may cease to pick up the signals one needs.
aug 22, 2025, 9:56 am • 4 0 • view
You're going to like the rest of what I wrote this morning. And I look forward to hearing your thoughts in response. Thank you for the dialogue
aug 22, 2025, 11:34 am • 1 0 • view
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