CEO @usemissionctrl. Connectomics @USC. Research @Cambridge. Cold war kid. The Bobfather.
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@UseMissionCtrl has been working on something new that I'm very excited to share with you.
We want to save the 1,000,000 years of industrial expertise that retire per day.
To do that, I'm proud to introduce you to Bob, our first hardware device.
youtu.be/llwWwxrQA1I
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Google AI researcher @bratton on why AI is causing humanity's next identity crisis:
A new “Copernican trauma” that forces us to rethink what it means to be human.
"A lot of the anxiety about AI right now is an example of what I call a Copernican trauma. These moments in history where we figure out that we’re not the center of the system that we thought we were."
"Heliocentrism was a Copernican trauma. Darwinism was a Copernican trauma. Neuroscience has been a Copernican trauma, that thinking is just a physiological process."
"The artificialization of intelligence is forcing a redefinition of what intelligence and mind is in the first place."
"The biggest news of what’s going on right now may in fact be epistemological and ontological rather than just technological. I think it’s gonna be a very bumpy road."
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for the record, this is how the chinese government thought about jack ma, and why it ultimately destroyed him. there is really no philosophical difference between our hard left and their hard left. and the only practical difference is their hard left's in power.
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If America had built 1,000 nuclear reactors by 2000 and continued expanding, nuclear power would supply ~90% of our electricity today, even with dramatically higher demand from electrification.
We wouldn’t just have cheaper, abundant electricity. We’d have an entirely different industrial economy. Never forget what they stole from you.
Ralph Nader, 1997: “When we came out against nuclear power in the early '70s, the government had predicted that there would be 1,000 nuclear plants by the year 2000 in the United States, and there's 109 and shrinking, as more and more get shut down.” pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline…
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Theodore Roosevelt protected about 230 million acres as president, including:
- 150 national forests
- 51 bird reservations
- 5 national parks
- and 18 national monuments.
Yoooooooo @WoodingtonBen
We’ve raised a $45m Series A, co-led by
@foundersfund and The @OpenAI Startup Fund, to build cancer therapy that learns. Technology is rapidly changing medicine, but data loops and rapid adjustments are still largely missing. When you start cancer treatment, knowing whether what you’re doing is working is too slow. Clearly there is a better way. Build systems to watch cancer in real time, then feed that data into a system that itself can treat the disease. This seeds a future where, unlike drugs, we develop medicine that continuously learns to improve itself. We've been building neurotechnology and BCI platforms to do just that.
@coherenceneuro