After crunching 70k 'trip reports', Mindstate looks to test first AI-derived psychedelic on humans fiercebiotech.com/biotech/mindst…

«I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with»

— Isaac Asimov (I Asimov, 1995)

Friday April 19 at 18:30 there will be the Astral Codex Ten / Slate Star Codex meetup in Milan, Italy. DM me if you would like to join!
#astralcodexten #slatestarcodex

Look at this: the amazing view of the the eclipse's umbra seen from a Starlink satellite on orbit.

Copernicus: March 2024 is the tenth month in a row to be the hottest on record climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-mar…

Before Sam was famous!

People often ask me why so many people respect him and his opinion - read this for some insight.

The days are long but the decades are short
blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-l…

Rimangono 6 giorni per candidarsi al premio Sparvoli - borsa di studio per studentesse delle scuole superiori abruzzesi creata in collaborazione con il Soroptimist Club Pescara sites.google.com/view/premiospa… Soroptimist Italia

The schizophrenia syndrome, circa 2024: What we know and how that informs its nature sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

One reason AI works for code is that most people are just writing the same programs over and over. The elegant solutions to this problem are more abstract languages and more powerful libraries. But maybe AI will be the worse-is-better solution that wins.

Huge AI funding leads to hype, warns DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis - British AI pioneer says the billions of dollars being poured into start-ups is obscuring scientific progress in the field on.ft.com/4aiUQqX via @financialtimes

I love counting to ten

If I was an alien race that wanted to cripple Earth’s technological development I wouldn’t kill scientists, I would invent new ways to ensure the best and brightest people would choose to work on optimizing ad clicks, create exciting new financial derivatives, or trade vapor…

Melting of polar ice having effect on global timekeeping, research shows on.ft.com/49dzaew via @financialtimes

A tribute to my favorite science fiction author, the late great Vernor Vinge.

noahpinion.blog/p/go-read-some…

Michel Talagrand has been awarded the Abel Prize, one of the highest honors in mathematics, for applying tools from high-dimensional geometry to complex probability problems. Jordana Cepelewicz reports: quantamagazine.org/michel-talagra…

Nuova edizione del premio Gabriella Sparvoli a favore di studentesse dell'ultimo anno delle scuole superiori, in collaborazione con il Soroptimist Club Pescara sites.google.com/view/premiospa… Soroptimist Italia

L'Economia dello Spazio. Opportunità Orbitali per Startup e Investitori
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Tomorrow at 10AM ET join me for a live conversation with Raffaele Mauro Raffaele Mauro, General Partner at Primo Space, covering the investment opportunities in the space economy.