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@mjd1735 @TimLaheyMD @pkedrosky @nntaleb ..for knowledge that drives us alone (?) to enquire about the nature of the stars, or our own thinking... and that allowed us to attain results like the incompleteness theorems and quantum mechanics.

@mjd1735 @TimLaheyMD @pkedrosky @nntaleb ...making the ground clean of much confusion by eroding single tasks human supremacy, or maybe thanks to that, they have brought to the center the question of how intelligences emerge in nature, and how the and their substrates sustain the differences in achievements and desire..

Would you agree @markomanka the quote below in today’s Wall Street Journal by Eric Schmidt supports my view AI is now progressing on an S-curve trajectory? In all systems, the doubling time of any variable always matters. Humanity is a system. @TimLaheyMD @pkedrosky @nntaleb

@mjd1735 @TimLaheyMD @pkedrosky @nntaleb ...would you give it a Nobel prize? Would it be in Economics? Or in Medicine? (it has been so influential that even naming conventions have been affected by its use theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355… ) But the prize for MS Excel or AlphaFold 2 would still be to the people who made the tool

@mjd1735 @TimLaheyMD @pkedrosky @nntaleb We spoke of AlphaFold 2 back then, and I agree it is a nice tool. My ideas, as I shared already, are in line with the opinions expressed here blopig.com/blog/2021/07/a… MS Excel is a tool which has been revolutionary, and despite my contempt for it we wouldn't be here without it...

@mjd1735 @Petitoursonnes @EdwardGLuce May I also stress that in the proposed reasoning there is a dangerous conflation/confusion of quantum mechanics with one specific interpretation of the same, exploited to make a sensationalistic (yet, I insist, of no real meaning) claim? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpret…

@mjd1735 @Petitoursonnes @EdwardGLuce I struggle to find a constructive feedback for this statement. The same loose speculation about the consequences of measurements/observations can be offered about bacteria, equally with no appreciable value. What "alter the fabric of reality" means is beyond me. Uninteresting.

It took ChatGPT about a second to answer a thorny geopolitical question with informative balance. I'm worried.

New research shows that giving better healthcare to low-income mothers has cascading effects across generations—improving health outcomes not only for them and their children, but for their grandchildren too! aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

IT project failure, termination, and the marginal cost trap journalmodernpm.com/article-view/?…

"For any non-convex problem, there exists an optimal, benign autoencoder (BAE) extracting a lower-dimensional data representation that is strictly beneficial" arxiv.org/abs/2210.00637

The Invariant Set Postulate: A New Geometric Framework for the Foundations of Quantum Theory and the Role Played by Gravity arxiv.org/abs/0812.1148 "What physics needs is not a quantum theory of gravity – but rather a gravitational theory of the quantum" youtu.be/GqeTTAFjDYY

The great Paul Embrechts w/collaborators just proved the dominance of 1/n under v. fat tails, something I didn't realize was never proved. arxiv.org/pdf/2208.08471… The proof is along the lines of the inequality quizzes of the late Alexander Bogomolny, bless his memory. #RWRI

This figure shows how grow -> pool -> share ... repeat makes you better off than keeping it all for yourself. doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2… It's what's behind farmersfable.org, @Marc_Elsberg. Please share, it's for your own good ;-)

Today, we reached 200 organisations interested in joining a coalition to reform #ResearchAssessment ! The call for expressions of interest is still open here: ➡️europa.eu/!gy8BU3 Let’s keep sharing this link 📢

A Transistor for Sound Points Toward Whole New Electronics :“Topological” acoustic transistor suggests circuits with dissipationless flow of electricity or light. Read more on @IEEESpectrum: spectrum.ieee.org/topological-tr…