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1/ We discovered something totally unexpected about the neural structure of consciousness that overturns decades of thinking on its biological basis and brings us significantly closer to the recipe for generating conscious awareness.
New preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… (led by @HesseJanis, with @FrankLanfranchi, @_conor_mcgrory, @Yuelin_Shi, and @EngelTatiana)
If governments want to increase the maternity rate, why don't they create free dating apps. These apps wouldn't have incentives to keep usees using the app to make money, since they're government funded. Therefore they would be fundamentally better at this.
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The notion that current AI models are sentient and can suffer, combined with the foolish idea that suffering can be mathematically quantified and weighted between humans and non-humans, could lead us down an incredibly dark and dystopian path.
But before it gets to that point, it will rightfully be met with immense backlash from team humans.
Bro doesn't know anything about IT. He thinks all security is only obscurity. AI will not break RSA based security, only quantum computers with many qubits can do that.
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Me doomscrolling, while I could make money with AI
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The purpose of the AI industry should be to produce tools that, in the human hand, will improve human prosperity and welfare.
It should not be to create a "successor species" to the human race. Entertaining such a thought makes you, de facto, the enemy of all present and future humans.
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Elon appears to have confirmed that SpaceX going public.
Unfortunately, I don't think this is a good thing for the whole Mars colony plan due to the influence of investors who don't understand spaceflight possibly undermining SpaceX's ability to both take risks and take things slow, resulting in more mediocrity.
I would love to be proven wrong, though.
Regardless of how this may effect SpaceX's Mars ambitions, seeing how well SpaceX is doing right now, I think investing may be a good idea for people who understand Spaceflight well.
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🇪🇺 Can Europe build frontier AI research labs?
@bfl_ml just raised 300m USD on a 3.25 billion USD valuation, and all of this not from San Francisco, but from Freiburg.
Why? Focus & Talent!
They still have a strong presence in the US, but they keep their HQ here and see themselves as European.
That's the way to do it, and a great role model for everyone out there!
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I'm following an insta acct who interviews elders from remote Romanian villages.Every single one of them speaks of how we now live in a God given infinte abundance so good that compared to their childhood &youth, they feel now they have more desire to live longer
a different POV
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LeJEPA: a novel pretraining paradigm free of the (many) heuristics we relied on (stop-grad, teacher, ...)
- 60+ arch., up to 2B params
- 10+ datasets
- in-domain training (>DINOv3)
- corr(train loss, test perf)=95%
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08544
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Immense planning and technical precision was required for this absolutely preposterous (but real) view: I captured my friend @BlackGryph0n transiting the sun during a skydive.
This might be the first photo of it's kind in existence. See a video of this moment in the reply 👇
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"I've been giving a lot of thought to how to give people access to SpaceX stock"
Please please think very carefully about this.
It would be awesome to be able to invest in SpaceX, but you need to make sure that you keep full control over the company. We don't want the possible future of a multiplanetary humanity to be dependent on shareholders.
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It’s okay if Jared isn’t administrator. He would be fantastic, But Duffy, wanting to kill NASA’s role as an independent agency, seems to be a particularly bad choice at the moment. We need someone else besides Duffy.
