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"I am a computer program!"
Embodiment is basically irrelevant for consciousness, so says @DavidDeutschOxf... and he brings the proof.
Prof. Brian Keating retweeted
"I am a computer program!"
Embodiment is basically irrelevant for consciousness, so says @DavidDeutschOxf... and he brings the proof.
Prof. Brian Keating retweeted
MIT's Max @Tegmark says P(doom) falls "way way way way down" if one thing changes. What is it?
A) Binding safety standards before release
B) Interpretability of neural nets
C) Nothing, the race can't be stopped
D) Something else, tell me below
youtube.com/watch?v=nnYHg0gc…
MIT's Max @Tegmark says P(doom) falls "way way way way down" if one thing changes. What is it?
A) Binding safety standards before release
B) Interpretability of neural nets
C) Nothing, the race can't be stopped
D) Something else, tell me below
youtube.com/watch?v=nnYHg0gc…
Taken from my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message
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With France Córdova, winner of tonight's Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. @Scripps_Ocean
A Cloud Made of Thin Air
Every cloud we have ever seen, on Earth, Venus or Mars, needs a seed: a speck of dust or soot for water to condense on.
Over Arsia Mons, a Martian volcano about 20 kilometers tall, ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has watched a thin cloud stretch some 1,800 kilometers downwind every morning for a few months around the southern summer solstice. A team led by Jorge Hernández-Bernal of Sorbonne University now reports in Nature Geoscience that the volcano drives air up to 45 kilometers high and chills it by 30 degrees Celsius in minutes, so the water vapor becomes wildly supersaturated with no dust up there to grab onto, and it condenses all by itself. It may be the first time anyone has caught a seedless cloud in the act.
Mars keeps teaching us about limits, which is the heart of my talk “A T. rex on Mars”: the physics of a world decides what can grow there, from ice crystals to minds. Some ideas come out of thin air, and on Mars, so do clouds.
Read more: Sky & Telescope →skyandtelescope.org/astronom…
Taken from my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message
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Prof. Brian Keating retweeted
Wharton's @emollick: if AI froze at today's frontier models, it would still remake almost all intellectual work within 10 years.
Which human edge holds out the longest?
A) Deep expertise 🧠
B) Wide knowledge 🌐
C) Taste 🎯
D) Agency ⚡
youtube.com/watch?v=gEYUgfAN…
Tchaikovsky. The Beatles. The Rolling Stones. Led Zeppelin. Keating. Make it make sense! @carnegiehall
Some audience pictures from last night’s performance with @RichardDawkins @carnegiehall
