It was wonderful to have you as a guest, Hannu Rajaniemi, loved this one!

Can’t wait to chat with the wonderful Marta Belcher on AI, Decentralization, and Regulating Emerging Technologies — thanks for making this event possible Filecoin Foundation!

ICYMI, Day 1️⃣ of Paths to Progress (co-hosted with Foresight Institute) highlighted Longevity Biotechnology with presentations by:

🎤 Aaron King
🎤 Allison Duettmann
🎤 Amit Deshwar
🎤 & more

#LabWeekPG 🌿

⏪ Watch a highlight from the session on genetic medicine pathways. 👇

Interesting new framing on the effects of compute overhang *post* AGI increasing takeoff speed to ASI — any thoughts, rebuttals, implications?

Congratulations to the Gordian Biotechnology team!

Great primer on hi-fi vs. lo-fi approaches to WBE by Patrick Mineault: neuroai.science/p/connectomics…

So excited for this!

The Foresight Fellowship has “helped me explore career opportunities, inspired new research ideas, and provided a really valuable network of connections”.

Applications for our 2025 Fellowship cohort close on midnight pst on July 31: foresight.org/foresight-fell…

Very excited to settle in Edge City in California in June, and to curate LabWeek on Breakthrough Tech w/ Foresight Institute and Protocol Labs.

this paper on collective intelligence by Michael Levin is one of the most mind-blowing things I've read in a while

it's full of examples of the under-appreciated intelligence of biological systems, with some deep perspective shifts on our understanding of ourselves

thread:

great new post by Eric Drexler on 'credible realism': stretching the overton window to better align perceived options with reality: aiprospects.substack.com/p/toward-credi…

Today we unveil the Pareto Holdings pH Fellowship with the goal of accelerating efforts to take on aging and age-related diseases.

We have so far backed nearly 1,000 early stage startups around the world, mostly focused on being the first to take a chance on great teams.

We…

Seeing the Earth in a different light:
On their way home, the crew of Apollo 12 took this stunning photograph of an exceptionally slender crescent Earth. The glare of the sun from the top-left has washed out the image, yet granted it a shining ethereal quality.
Happy Earth Day!

Only in SF: protest organizer + police + waymo standoff as it’s stuck on the intersection.

Announcing The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness! It holds that all vertebrates and many invertebrates have a realistic chance of being conscious, and that their welfare merits consideration.

If you have relevant expertise, please sign!

nydeclaration.com

Thank you to our wonderful speakers Claire Short, Allison Duettmann, Evan Miyazono, Ryan Kidd, and Vera Wu for their presentations at our Cryptography, Security, AI mini-workshop. Thanks again to our wonderful co-host Protocol Labs, and all of you who attended! #LabWeekPG

Thank you to Adam Marblestone, Allison Duettmann, Christine Peterson, Jeremy Barton, Boris Fain, Grigory Tikhomirov, and Reto Stamm for their presentations at our Nanotech mini-workshop. Special thanks to our wonderful co-host Protocol Labs. #LabWeekPG