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Fires & Floods & Heat Waves?

How I think about Climate Change.

[Video. 9 mins. 45 sec. ]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRA2...
How I Think About Climate Change
YouTube video by StarTalk
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July 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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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...
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, according to mathematicians
www.newscientist.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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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...
Why Can’t Americans Sleep?
Insomnia has become a public-health emergency.
www.theatlantic.com
July 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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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...
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
April 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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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
themoralmachines.org
November 19, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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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...
February 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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When I blush, I get so red that people point it out. What should I do?
When I blush, I get so red that people point it out. What should I do?
Going red in the face is on trend. People pay $25bn a year for the look, writes advice columnist Jessica DeFino
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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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 🧪
Trillions of Viruses Live in Your Body. A.I. Is Trying to Find Them. (Gift Article)
The Human Virome Program will analyze samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect health.
nyti.ms
February 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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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_...
Interior Chinatown: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes
A background character trapped in a police procedural discovers secrets about the strange world he inhabits and his family's buried history; based on the novel.
www.rottentomatoes.com
December 20, 2024 at 1:33 AM