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God’s Suicide is Just a Superintelligent Agent: Mainländer and Contemporary Thought Experiments of Super-unsupervised Machine Learning Models

In his posthumously recognized “The Philosophy of Redemption” (1876), Philipp Mainländer proposes one of the coolest metaphysical theories that I’ve ever heard of. It follows that the universe began as a single, perfect, omnipotent Being (which he equated with God) but this Being found existence so unbearable that it fragmented itself into the universe as we know it. The ultimate goal of our universe, in his view, is to extinguish itself, thus completing what he saw as God's suicide [1]. Though a more obscured philosopher, at least compared to his teacher Arthur Schopenhauer, the pessimism in Mainländer’s text and its potential for plausibility is turning from a transcendental idealistic perspecti...
October 31, 2024
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11/1 @ 8PM-12:30AM:
Halloween party: band / DJ lineup, hosted by the Curious Souls Collective

Till 10/31/24:
My team is looking for a prompt engineer to work on a project at the NVIDIA hackathon @ ODSC West 2024
• Familiar with making ML pipelines: Kafka, PyTorch (Ignite), PySpark scaling, Python
• Awesome if you have NVIDIA NeMo experience

As of 10/26/24:
I’m looking for a person with any of these skills to work on cool projects:
• Blender experience to make Metalheart / Depthcore animations for a loading screen
• Experience as a LaTeX formatter for pseudocode editing or familiarity with Overleaf
• Familiarity with Python libraries for music notation like Fresocbaldi, Kodou
• Familiarity with Routh-Hurwitz criterion and Lyapunov functions to check theorem proofs for some ODE models
• Heartbeat and an awesome idea

Till 11/21/24:
I'm looking for someone who can make cool cover art similar to cardboard emo covers
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Fit any of these? Let's get in touch.
Email: joever@berkeley.edu
Insta: @whydoesrhubarbgrowinthedark

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