This seems to be a real weapon for sale; Max Tegmark and Stewart Sugg actually overestimated the tastefulness of defense contractor marketing in “Slaughterbots” youtu.be/9CO6M2HsoIA

The famous Shibuya crossing, Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵

Any jobs that require mediocre essays can now, *in real life*, be done with ChatGPT assistance! Students who use ChatGPT to generate essays are *realistically* showing they can handle the mediocre-essay-writing jobs for which modern universities are vigorously training them.

Mathematics, fractals, infinity. Eternal triangles.

Für den Kryptopionier David Chaum ist eine neue digitale Privatsphäre systemrelevant. Denn Fake News und KI-generierte Inhalte bedrohen den Prozess der Meinungsfindung. Wie man die Demokratie mit antiken Ideen retten könnte, verrät er im 1E9-Interview. buff.ly/3XuJEAF

Banning ChatGPT for scientific writing is misguided. It's like banning calculators or spell checkers I find ChatGPT to be a very useful tool for generating a first version of a paragraph or refining an existing paragraph. I predict this policy will be "refined" in <1 yr.

Never forget that AI regulation will be made by the same kind of process that gave you the cookie banner

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‘Every single moral improvement towards a just society has involved massive amounts of offence’ Kathleen Stock speaking at the Cambridge Union last November in our right to offend debate. Kathleen Stock #C4GenderWars

I will talk about the sentience of machines at the 1E9 Festival of the Future! München, July 6-8 festivalderzukunft.com eventbrite.de/e/festival-der…

Wie kann Deutschland aus Mittelmaß und Abstieg ausbrechen? Der Ex-Topmanager und -Politiker Thomas Sattelberger findet dafür deutliche Worte - und schlägt radikal neue Ideen vor. buff.ly/3LYMQBi

Megabytes of ancient text are coming

If our Popper/Russel style enlightenment liberalism wants to survive against progressivism, it needs to develop a contemporary aesthetic, it has to divest from the scientific institutions while staying scientific, and it needs the ability to proliferate itself outside of books.

RIP Frans de Waal improbable.com/2024/03/16/sad…

In one of my favorite near term AI timelines, everyone is in control of a personal superintelligent AI interface to the world. Reality will become transparent to all, and we coordinate based on the undeniable outcomes of our actions. This will be the first true democracy.

Consciousness might turn out to be the consensus algorithm of the brain.

A young orangutan's hand [📸 Jessie Williams]

A dolphin's fin vs Human hand

Can’t believe this broad didn’t manage to hoard generational wealth from the slave economy

When I was young, my opposition to the unjust and destructive wars of Kissinger, the Bushs and Clintons, the crude and consumerist American culture led me to wish for Germany leaving NATO and Europe disengaging from US dominance.