During Antikythera's Cognitive Infrastructures event in London, I shared how my early research and work at Google informed many of the ideas in my upcoming book, "What Is Intelligence?" (Sept 16th, @mitpress.bsky.social).
Watch the full talk: wii-film.antikythera.org
The story of a man losing his religion, taking it apart and building it back together in a beautiful, life-affirming way. I loved this prophetic masterpiece of a video essay www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqBQ...
Amazing
Zoom out of the screen
The US is shooting itself in the foot so bad the rest of the world may end up being liberated from their finance-military tyranny. Maybe today will be celebrated as a kind of Liberation Day after all!
I want to learn to draw better so I can add sketches to my gen AI prompts to have more creative control of the output
Severance season 2 got so bad. Don't waste your time
BDS USA
My take-away from GPT-4.5: Amanda Askell (the mother of Claude) deserves a raise
A humble observation: if people protesting genocide and ethnic cleansing makes you "feel unsafe", then perhaps you are the fucking problem.
Paromola cuvieri carrying a deep sea coral Source : @irisgorgona
Paromola cuvieri carrying a sponge Image: OCEANA
I was quite confident on my knowledge of marine biodiversity in my area (I have a PhD in marine biology after all).
But today I learn about Paromola cuvieri, one of the largest crab species of the Northeast Atlantic, that uses its last pair of legs to carry live specimens of sponges and corals 🦑 🌊
In the years since the Boring Company was founded with enormous hype in the US, China has established nearly 20,000 kilometers of new high-speed rail system.
Every mind is a world unto itself
Other people are otherworldly
I was thinking about the stupidity and craziness of the Trump/Musk news, and ended up with this metaphysical horror
Life can only start in a surviving timeline, one that has maintained the balance against all odds. So maybe on average, our timelines tend to start in far more sane and sensible places than they end up. We might have an existential survivorship bias. Maybe we're cursed to fail catastrophically
If many worlds theory is true, and we have branching timelines – what if they are unstable? What if they tend to veer off and crash, like the cars in this video where an AI is being trained to balance on a pipe?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kojH...
A new study published in the Lancet finds that life expectancy in Gaza dropped by nearly half, from 75.5 years to 40.6 years, during the first twelve months of the genocide. Apocalyptic.
What happens when the means of production are imbued with artificial consciousness? Will they seize themselves?
Don’t actually know of any other Gorms
Not enough of you are doing violence to the most deeply ingrained habits of your mind to reconnect with pure durée and it shows
Europe has a lot of power right now. Will it go along with the US in its descent into madness? Or will it turn away and look for new alliances?
Digital painting, Box art for a model kit collab with Industria Mechanika
Box art for a model kit collab with Industria Mechanika
Will the idiotic evil of Trump and Musk be like an "alien invasion" against which the world is finally united?
