Bill Benzon, BAM! Bootstrapping Artificial Minds

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The Measurement of Cultural Evolution in the Non-Literate World academia.edu/37163326/The_M… via @academia

@ThrillaRilla369 yes

Be honest... could you jump into a stick-shift car and drive it without a problem right now? 🚘

One Candle, a Thousand Points of Light: The Xanadu Meme academia.edu/8378900/One_Ca… via @academia

GPT-3: Waterloo or Rubicon? Here be Dragons, Version 4.1 academia.edu/43787279/GPT_3… via @academia

@otokyo__ Otto

Is it true 🤔

Tezuka’s Metropolis: A Modern Japanese Fable about Art and the Cosmos academia.edu/7959634/Tezuka… via @academia

@Matt_Pinner 13

How many have you seen? No one has all 20.

@saniyafatma1278 Yes, he's talented. He should be taking art lessons. Find him a teacher or a studio where he can take lessons.

My 11-year-old son painted this today 🎨 I didn’t help him at all — this was all his idea. Be honest… does he have real talent for his age? 🇺🇸✨ Should I encourage him to take art more seriously?

Heart of Darkness: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis on Several Scales, Version 6 academia.edu/8132174/Heart_… via @academia

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

@DailyPicTheme2 #DailyPictureTheme #Lookout

Friday 20th March Today’s Daily Picture Theme is 'Lookout' 🪟 RT or reply with your own photo Tomorrow’s theme will be 'Morning Beverage' #DailyPictureTheme

69 acres of private Tuscany for €690k ($797k). The land includes an olive grove, a fruit orchard, a cork oak grove and 20 hectares of woodland. A natural spring produces 3,000 litres of water a day, solar panels cover the electricity and yes, it does have wifi. It's also been renovated, 370m² (3,983 sq ft) across 3 floors, 3 beds, 3 baths, with a pool and a sauna. 50 km to Volterra. Off-grid, self-sufficient, sauna, pool..what's missing here?

NEW SAVANNA: The Shock and the Narrowing: How ChatGPT's Success May Have Compromised AI's Future @robertwrighter @BryanAlexander @sebkrier @Meaningness new-savanna.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-sh…

The New Museum Reopens, Asking, ‘What Is Human?’ nytimes.com/2026/03/19/art…

How do we measure progress toward AGI? It takes a village – and a bit of healthy competition. 🛠️ We’re launching a global hackathon with @Kaggle to build new cognitive evaluations for AI. With $200k in prizes up for grabs, help us put our framework to the test. Join the challenge → goo.gle/4uqOVKK

Relational Nets Over Attractors, A Primer: Part 1, Design for a Mind, Version 3 academia.edu/81911617/Relat… via @academia

@Matt_Pinner 16

I've been to 2, you ?

NEW SAVANNA: Brave New World: Notes on the next 30 years in AI [Work in Progress] new-savanna.blogspot.com/2026/03/brave-…

Visual Thinking academia.edu/13450375/Visua… via @academia

@WorkElizab "Time to make the donuts." "Where's the beef?"

A line from an old tv commercial