"Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control."

Terry Rileyはもうすぐ91歳になるらしいが、そこに老いはなく、けど、折り畳まれた時間の厚みや深さを感じる。それと、もう終わりが近いとか、そんな気負いも感じられない。どうしたらこんなに愚直に誠実になれるのだろう。

It is your solemn duty to learn how to enjoy yourselves.

Well, I gotta admit it was worth the wait for that curtain to be removed.

The export control directive banning state of the art language models from Anthropic is only counterproductive to the US AI industry if you don’t view it as yet another act in the current production of AI safety theatrics.

SpaceX IPO so perfect for right now. A company without profit, sold on a market detached from reality, based on fake promises about things it will never do. Layers and layers of bullshit.

People with more power than nation states undermine and corrupt our free democracies. Surely we should care?

Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain ft.trib.al/zAOuVKk

#plottertwitter #plotterart

This is absolutely insane: The SpaceX IPO has now drawn more than $70 BILLION worth of retail orders alone. SpaceX is raising $75 billion, making retail interest ALONE enough to nearly fill the entire sale. To put this in perspective, the previous record IPO was Saudi Aramco in 2020 at $29.4 billion. This means that retail interest in SpaceX is now 2.4 TIMES larger than the total amount raised in the previous largest IPO in history. As a result, SpaceX has announced that 20% of their IPO will be allocated to retail investors, following through on @elonmusk's vision to democratize the record IPO. Nothing even remotely near what SpaceX is about to do has ever happened. Friday will be a historic day.

This is genuinely such a disaster. I just don't get how this is what we're doing: manipulating oil futures to create an illusion of calm until oil stocks literally run out and we get the global economic version of losing consciousness from blood loss.

Whether predictive systems can be ethically—or even functionally—used in socially sensitive contexts depends on their epistemic credentials. I am delighted to see my work inform policy recommendations in a new report from Amnesty International. bit.ly/3PYdFea

Trump: I’m attacking Iran. I’m not attacking Iran. I’m attacking Iran. I’m not attacking Iran. Markets:

What happens if the AI bubble pops? How does the financial contagion affect our banks, balance sheets, cities, and pensions? Are we in for another Great Financial Crisis? Or a dot com bust? Or something altogether different? thebignewsletter.com/p/what-…

@ThouArtThat this was great. Such cool hosts and questions. A little less academic. More relaxed. ❤️ the boat metaphor. I recently thought of it as swimming in a river the size of the universe. You can feel like your doing stuff, but the river is SO big. youtu.be/vm7nioOMwyM?si=1TNM…

well I work on AI/cogsci/mind/general philosophy of science: youtu.be/I0yil_3dvjs?si=RH9r… and @trsam97 interviews a number of philosophers working in similar areas on his channel

Students are showing up to college lacking high school level literacy, universities have no strategic plan for handling it, and the work of remedial education is falling to overworked adjuncts. The future of higher ed depends on our ability to fix this. chronicle.com/article/my-stu…

Don’t underestimate the chances of Turkey following Hungary’s example. Erdoğan’s attempt to control his opposition through a puppet is backfiring. The ejected opposition leader is pulling record-breaking crowds.

Bin Türk beraberce bakkala gitse, olsa olsa biber gazı alırlar. Ama binlerce Rus İstanbul'da buluşup beraberce stada yürüyerek konserde gönüllerince eğlenebiliyor. Içinde ülkenin kendi vatandaşları olmasa, ne biçim yönetecekler aslında. Rahatsızlık verdiğimiz için özür dileriz.

"Pay the same price for a cup of coffee that you would in Berlin but make 1/3rd of the money and live in a constant state of anxiety and with no political or property rights."

Bitcoin is pumping hard in Australia market 🇦🇺