This is the end of globalization and the world economy as we know it. 2 years of pandemic + the global sanctions against Russia & friends. Decoupling is painful, but inevitable. And this acceleration is not the West's fault.

Imagine how the world would change if a minimalist world government enforced non aggression between states, every region could freely choose which state it belongs to, and new states (including legal systems, currencies and and trade agreements) could be started at will

Fast, flexible cultural transmission underpins human intelligence. Our team trains an AI capable of real-time cultural transmission in previously unseen navigation tasks. The agent follows expert demos & reproduces them reliably after the expert leaves: dpmd.ai/cultural-trans… 1/

BrainPy: a flexible, integrative, efficient, and extensible framework towards general-purpose brain dynamics programming biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

Because, we can now simulate brain dynamics composed of billions of neurons and trillions of synapses with biologically realistic mechanisms! Something we could not do since today! Moreover, inspired by this solution… 2/n

Current generative AI is not a stochastic parrot but a beyond human-level strenght stochastic golem. What makes golems terrifying is that they may be impossible to stop while lacking the sentience to make the right choices. I also perceive our current civilization as a golem.

Had the most amazing time at the Mathematical Methods in Computational Neuroscience Summer School in Norway 🧠 Incredible speakers, organizers, peers, science conversations, food, views, hikes. So beyond grateful to attend 💛

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