Pedro Lopes

I created a font called Ghost Font that only humans can read. Tested it in Fable and GPT 5.6 Sol Ultra and neither was able to decipher it correctly.

unsolicited advice to college students and recent grads, after lots of recent coffees w/ people entering the job market: the most accomplished person you know may not have the most relevant career advice for you. they can offer immense wisdom ofc, but you should also seek out successful people in their late 20s / 30s who’ve been successful in the current job market. for example, students often tell me that their parents or an older, tenured professor have encouraged them to pursue academia because they’re bookish, intellectually curious, etc. and that may be sincere advice! — but it’s coming from someone who hasn’t confronted the relevant job market in decades. you can’t look at someone’s linkedin trajectory and assume trying to replicate it would pan out the same way now. ok good luck and godspeed.

Introducing NEO’s 25 Degrees of Freedom, tendon-driven hands — nearing or surpassing human-level dexterity, strength, speed, and reliability. For seventy years, robotics worked around the hand problem. The humanoid bet is the reverse: it lives or dies at the fingertips.

Now out in Nature Human Behaviour 🚀 Why are humans prosocial? Our new paper suggests two routes. One is fast. One is slow. We ran a large experiment with more than 500 children aged 3 to 10. Children completed a battery of decisions measuring different forms of social behaviour. The key manipulation was simple. Half of the children had to decide quickly: within 10 seconds. The other half had to wait: at least 10 seconds before responding. Here’s the main results. Children as young as 3 were more prosocial under time pressure than after a delay. In this sense, early prosociality appears to be intuitive. But development changes the picture. As children grew older, prosociality under time pressure remained relatively stable. What changed was prosociality after deliberation. Deliberative prosociality increased with age, gradually closing the gap with intuitive prosociality around age 8. So prosociality does not seem to have a single developmental route. It may begin as a fast, internalised response. Then, with development, it may become increasingly available to reflection, reasoning, and self-control. We do not yet know the precise mechanism. One possibility is that children internalise prosocial responses very early, through a combination of biological predispositions and repeated cooperative interactions, especially in the family. Over time, these responses may become rationalised, stabilised, and integrated into more reflective decision-making. * Full paper in the first reply