My boy Bernardo is wilddd

[Carl-Richard]

My boy Bernardo Kastrup, I just realized he is an ex-director of ASML, the largest company in Europe. And now he is about to land a 100m dollar fund for his new AI company Euclyd. Boy's brain is out of this world.

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And how does he get that funding? Well, currently the leading chip manufacturer for AI is NVIDIA, and they make graphics cards designed for gaming. They were not designed with AI in mind, so they are very inefficient according to these startups that want to corner that market. Bernardo postulates their chips can reduce electricity usage by ~100x compared to NVIDIAs chips. Interesting times ahead not just for AI but for idealism and non-duality considering the seats of power and influence some of these people inhabit.

Edited 4 hours ago by Carl-Richard

[Cireeric]

Very interesting, he hinted that his life-purpose might shift again in the coming chapter of his life in his latest book The Daimon and the Soul of the West due to the potential he sees in the new developments in AI. Didnt expect him to be already so deep into it though.

[Cred]

holy shit

[Carl-Richard]

19 minutes ago, Cireeric said:

Very interesting, he hinted that his life-purpose might shift again in the coming chapter of his life in his latest book The Daimon and the Soul of the West due to the potential he sees in the new developments in AI. Didnt expect him to be already so deep into it though.

Ah, the curse of having to choose between world domination through tech or world domination through academia 😝

[Cireeric]

1 minute ago, Carl-Richard said:

Ah, the curse of having to choose between world domination through tech or world domination through academia 😝

 I vaguely remember he also hinted that he hees a potential for a flourishing of idealism through that route. Didnt remember exactly how he sees that happening.

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

Seems like Europe isn't completely lost after all

[Carl-Richard]

9 hours ago, Cireeric said:

 I vaguely remember he also hinted that he hees a potential for a flourishing of idealism through that route. Didnt remember exactly how he sees that happening.

I mean technically he already did that once. Give it another 7 year cycle and it comes around probably. And Essentia Foundation is "essentially" running itself anyway.

I have a feeling he might have been partially spooked from academia after realizing naturalism seems more and more futile (he said he doesn't really see the point of doing philosophy if naturalism doesn't apply, which I personally think is just a slightly rigid definition of naturalism born out of clinging to old ideas of how reality ought to work, and you can still proceed and try to find a rule set for things despite various issues related to NDEs and psychic phenomena, but he seems to think that level of complexity is a bit unsatisfactory, which he attributes to his hard science / analytic temperament).

Edited 2 hours ago by Carl-Richard

[integral]

its impressive how many doors he has available to him.