Fires & Floods & Heat Waves?

How I think about Climate Change.

[Video. 9 mins. 45 sec. ]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRA2...

Mathematicians have worked out the optimal strategy for Guess Who? The quickest way to win the board game Guess Who? involves asking sneaky questions that involve a logical fallacy. www.newscientist.com/article/2491...

As someone who has severe bouts of insomnia, I usually avoid reading about sleep--but this article, by the extraordinary
@jennifersenior.bsky.social, is REALLY GOOD and I learned a ton from it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

You’re not going to Mars and you won’t live forever—exploding Silicon Valley’s ideology. Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, "More Everything Forever." arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

Here's a fascinating white paper about a meditation experience with 5 different AIs: themoralmachines.org/wp-content/u...

It's by @natemiska.bsky.social -- his new org is www.themoralmachines.org -- check it out!

#AI4good #AI #LLM #AGI #SpiritualMachines #consciousnessShift

My new piece in @theguardian.com

Techno-optimism is human pessimism.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This pairs very well with recent @seanmcarroll.bsky.social interview where @eliassi.bsky.social talks about how AI/computer science culture has become dominated by incentives to optimize your systems to often highly imperfect benchmarks - www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

When I blush, I get so red that people point it out. What should I do?

Every healthy human body is home to trillions of viruses, and we may harbor tens of millions of viral species. Here's my story about scientists exploring the human virome. [Gift link] nyti.ms/41nZpxS 🧪

Interior Chinatown, created by Charles Yu based on his novel, is an amazing TV series. Unapologetically metafictional, used in such purposeful and rewarding ways.

www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/interior_...