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“AI, machine learning, robotics and the power of computational science hold the potential to drive explosive economic growth and profoundly transform a diverse array of sectors, while providing...
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Honestly, I kind of like The Rings of Power. It’s slow, and the evident fact that there must have been an episode of ethnic cleansing in the Shire at some point between the era of TROP and that of The...
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View ArticleJordan Peterson interviews Alex Epstein, author of “Fossil Future”
I urge people, when they get the time, to give this interview of Alex Epstein a view. Epstein is the author of “Fossil Future”, an absolutely brilliant explanation of the case for Man’s use of...
View Article“End ‘colonial’ approach to space exploration, scientists urge”
Genuine Guardian headline. Humans boldly going into space should echo the guiding principle of Captain Kirk’s Star Trek crew by resisting the urge to interfere, researchers have said, stressing a need...
View ArticleWe think we are living at the dawn of the age of AI. What if it is already...
“Research finds ChatGPT & Bard headed for ‘Model Collapse'”, writes Ilkhan Ozsevim in AI Magazine: A recent research paper titled, ‘The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models...
View ArticleA film explaining the monetary system, from The Cobden Centre
The good folk at The Cobden Centre have put together a very good documentary to explain how the fiat money system works, and has some suggestions as to what to do about it. At the instigation of the...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – from anti-authoritarian to bootlicker
The sad thing is that the character of the Doctor used to represent a distinctively British kind of amateur anti-authoritarianism. He took on the might of the Daleks with the equivalent of a...
View ArticleHugone awry
I felt old reading this article by Adam Morgan of Esquire magazine. For a while some thirty years ago, the terms “Worldcon” and “Hugo” were part of my daily life. What happened to them? Inside the...
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