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Emergent Complexity

“milliards” means “billions” btw.

Here is Emergent Garden’s thoughts on emergent complexity. I go through a tour of simple systems that produce unexpected complexity, and try to break down emergence into more general and useful ideas. We talk about snowflakes and ant colonies, cellular automata and universe simulations, and the many weird ideas of Stephen Wolfram. I also offer some advice for creating and encouraging emergent behavior. This video is important to me. Emergence is the most interesting thing in the universe.

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Particle Life: https://sandbox-science.com/particle-life.
Universe Sandbox: https://universesandbox.com/
Lego Galaxy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djLyoDmSPF0
Big Bang: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12656/
Emergence Animation: https://www.pexels.com/video/an-artist-s-illustration-of-art…-25744130/
Ants Solving Maze: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1hlyv…_maneuver/
Neuron Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TIK9oXc5Wo.
Snowflake Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-PQk2-Po-g.
The Life Engine: https://thelifeengine.net.
Water Molecule Sim: https://twitter.com/EdgarGonzalezGT/status/1877078173910753452
Langton’s Ant Simulator: https://evolvecode.io/turmites/index.html.
Conway’s Game of Life: https://playgameoflife.com/
Recursive Game of Life: https://oimo.io/works/life/
A New Kind of Science: https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/
Stephen Wolfram Podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdE-waSx-d8&list=PLdwvZsAHiS…9ChTYxtZsD
Complexity, A Guided Tour: https://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Guided-Tour-Melanie-Mitche…atfound-20
Wolfram Hypergraph Simulator: https://met4citizen.github.io/Hypergraph/
Atom Orbital Simulation: https://www.falstad.com/qmatom/
Lego Bonsai Alternate Build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnuCOrCJojw.
Lego Blocks Made of Legos:
Tornado: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGcGFU_Hi9U
Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: https://archive.org/details/cosmos_1980/COSMOS_01.mp4.
Terry Davis Quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0qmkQGqpM8

My Music Guy: https://youtube.com/@acolyte-compositions?si=2P97LlROhNgQYOa
“Deliberate Thought“
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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NMNH Triples NAD+ in First Human Trial: Here’s What That Means

The first NMNH human trial shows NAD+ levels increased up to 3x in 90 days. Here’s what the data actually reveal—and what’s still missing.
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The first human clinical trial results for NMNH are here. In this 90-day randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, NMNH increased NAD+ levels up to 3x in healthy adults, with participants reporting improvements in energy and fatigue. But before you get too excited, there are important limitations to understand.
In this video, I break down the trial design, explain what the NAD+ increases actually mean, review the subjective outcomes like energy and emotional well-being (measured via SF-36), and discuss why the biological age claims are difficult to interpret. I also cover safety data and what we still need to know.
This is promising early data for NMNH vs NMN, but it’s unpublished, lacks key details, and needs independent replication. Here’s everything you need to know about what this trial does and doesn’t tell us.
Key topics: NMNH clinical trial, NAD+ boosters, NMN vs NMNH, longevity supplements, anti-aging research, NAD+ levels, UthPeak study, Phase I trial results.

📚 Chapters.
0:00 — Introduction & Trial Overview What this video covers and the trial basics.
1:39 — Trial Design & Methodology Study structure, participants, and objectives.
2:31 — NAD+ Results The primary outcome: dose-dependent increases.
3:18 — Subjective Outcomes & Limitations Energy, mood, biological age claims, and why interpretation is difficult.
6:26 — Safety & Final Thoughts Tolerability data and what comes next.

🌐Links in this video.
NMNH Clinical Trial https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/study/.… nicotinamide mononucleotide is a new and potent NAD+ precursor in mammalian cells and mice https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com… Reduced Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMNH) Potently Enhances NAD+ and Suppresses Glycolysis, the TCA Cycle, and Cell Growth https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33793… *************************************** Health claims Disclosure: Information provided on this video is not a substitute for direct, individual medical treatment or advice. Please consult with your doctor first. Products or services mentioned in this video are not a recommendation. Audio Copyright Disclaimer Please note that we have full authorization to the music that we used in our videos as they were created using the service WeVideo which provides the rights to the music. The rights are detailed in the terms of use that can be reviewed here https://www.wevideo.com/terms-of-use and any following inquiries should be addressed to [email protected]. ********************************************** #nmnh #nad #nmn.
Reduced nicotinamide mononucleotide is a new and potent NAD+ precursor in mammalian cells and mice.
https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com…
Reduced Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMNH) Potently Enhances NAD+ and Suppresses Glycolysis, the TCA Cycle, and Cell Growth.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33793…

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Berserker Aliens: The Deadliest Answer to the Fermi Paradox

One day they may come for us.

Are Berserker probes hunting advanced life? Exploring the deadliest Fermi Paradox solution.

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Currents 072: Ben Goertzel on Viable Paths to True AGI

https://www.jimruttshow.com/currents-ben-goertzel-2/

Jim talks with Ben Goertzel about the ideas in his recent essay “Three Viable Paths to True AGI.” They discuss the meaning of artificial general intelligence, Steve Wozniak’s basic AGI test, whether common tasks actually require AGI, a conversation with Joscha Bach, why deep neural nets are unsuited for human-level AGI, the challenge of extrapolating world-models, why imaginative improvisation might not be interesting to corporations, the 3 approaches that might have merit (cognition-level, brain-level, and chemistry-level), the OpenCog system Ben is working on, whether it’s a case of “good old-fashioned AI,” where evolution fits into the approach, why deep neural nets aren’t brain simulations & attempts to make them more realistic, a hypothesis about how to improve generalization, neural nets for music & the psychological landscape of AGI research, algorithmic chemistry & the origins of life problem, why AGI deserves more resources than it’s getting, why we may need better parallel architectures, how & how much society should invest in new approaches, the possibility of a cultural shift toward AGI viability, and much more.

Your Music Playlist Could Influence Your Driving Ability in Unexpected Ways

For many of us, listening to music is simply part of the driving routine – as ordinary as wearing a seatbelt. We build playlists for road trips, pick songs to stay awake, and even turn the volume up when traffic gets stressful.

More than 80 percent of drivers listen to music on most trips. And many young drivers find it difficult to concentrate without it.

We tend to think music relaxes us, energises us, or helps us focus when we’re behind the wheel.

The Brain’s Best Defense Against Aging Could Be Your New Favorite Hobby

Getting older means losing things. Some are fine, like any f**ks you have left to give or your tolerance for cheap tequila. Others, like the ability to follow a conversation in a loud room, hit harder.

But scientists now think there’s a way to fight back. And it might start at a piano bench.

Researchers publishing in PLOS Biology found that older adults who have played music for decades have brains that function more like those of someone half their age, at least when it comes to understanding speech in loud environments. In brain scans, they showed cleaner, more focused activity while listening to spoken syllables buried in background noise. Their brains weren’t scrambling. They already knew what to do.

“Gödel, Escher, Bach”: Minds, Machines, And Math

NOTE: Some folks have mentioned my pronunciation of Gödel is wrong, I do apologize for that.

Any author mulling artificial intelligence as a story element owes it to themselves to encounter this spellbinding, one-of-a-kind book. You also deserve to sit down with it if you’re curious about any number of other SF&F-adjacent topics: mathematics, pattern recognition, the definition of consciousness, the concepts of recursion (finite and infinite)… but most of all, the way profundity can be made to look like pure play.

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