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My latest, for @bigthink
I wrote about alienation, accelerationism, & how it turns out I went to the same bland school as Nick Land. Must be something in the water in London's suburbs.
Read to learn how the 1800s sweatshops Marx critiqued were already called "slop" factories.👇
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Biology has been doing computer science for four billion years. Before the discovery of DNA, Alan Turing and John von Neumann worked out the logic of self-replicating machines, showing how matter folds into a system that reads and executes instructions to build itself.
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People often assume we care more about beings if we think they're conscious. But what if it's the other way round? In this new essay for @bigthink, I ask what our treatment of animals can tell us about how we might treat conscious AI.
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“Donnie Darko” offers a time travel lesson you won’t find elsewhere
The movie "Donnie Darko" first came out 25 years ago.
How does the time travel in the story stack up against what physics actually understands?
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Introducing Cosmos Ventures.
@_MattMandel and I are launching Fund I with $77.6M to back philosopher-builders founding institutions for the AI age.
We’ve invested in AIUC (@aiunderwriting), @PrimeIntellect, Workshop Labs (acquired by @ThinkyMachines), and a stealth education company. Our LPs include @reidhoffman, @jliemandt, @StandTogether, @fredwilson, @mickymalka, and @AsteraInstitute.
AI is creating the biggest opening for institution-builders since the American founding. We are here to back the founders who take it.
Our thesis: Dare to Found.
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The definition of pain is changing | Rachel Zoffness @drzoffness @bigthink
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Terry also recently introduced for a broad general audience the core concepts in his forthcoming book SIX MATH ESSENTIALS in this new @bigthink video, which already has over 1.2 million views: youtu.be/OOMx2BHHWtE?is=gE-7…
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Truth as a referendum by likes.
(My latest in Big Think)
The internet and social media gave billions of people access not only to information but also to self-expression. This destroyed the old mechanisms of gatekeeping, largely controlled by elites, leading to what Martin Gurri in The Revolt of the Public called “the crisis of authority.” A crisis of epistemic authority soon followed. @mgurri
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Exercise works for depression.
92% of clinicians get zero training on how to recommend it.
If this were medication, it would be malpractice.
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"The movies and books we read present ancient Rome, medieval villages, and the 1960s as some kind of heroic, bucolic, swinging golden past." Great piece by @philosophyminis in @BigThink
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"Our Universe has a positive, non-zero value to the energy within empty space. Can we potentially save ourselves by considering vacuum decay?" via @bigthink realclearscience.com/2026/07…
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“One of the best ways is actually to have them in contact with the people that they’ve dehumanized."
2 ways to deradicalize someone (and the 1 that works the best) ~ @bigthink
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What happens when citizens of the most scientifically advanced nation on the planet think it's fine to opt out of science.
My piece from @bigthink
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Just dropped! My essay for @bigthink's print issue on the US as the 'Opt-Out Nation'.
It's titled 'Escape from Humanity'.
It binds Gilded Age visions of geoengineered hyper-capitalism with Y2K predictions of humans made into cosmic refugees by AI intelligence explosion...
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Thrilled to contribute to the latest @bigthink print magazine.
I took a trip to Belgium and wrote a story about a remarkable 221-year-old company that continues to reinvent the wheel (literally).
Links below.
Congrats to @seantmcvey @chandlertuttle @BobbyHugh Stephen Johnson @KristinJHouser and all the talented members of the @bigthink team!
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Gen Z is not opting out of modernity. It is opting out of the assumption that the digital world must consume the analog one. I'm so honored to be part of the @bigthink Opt-Out Nation issue, available online and in print. bigthink.com/mind-behavior/w…
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A single illustration reveals the entirety of cosmic history
It took 13.8 billion years for the Grand Cosmic Story to actually unfold.
Why not view the whole thing in one illustration: from before the Big Bang to humanity's modern rise?
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My latest in @bigthink
The 250-year-old company that survived by refusing to lay people off
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Literally one of the most important essays could read, if you want to have a *productive* disagreements about anything, on X or anywhere else, is @paulg’s “How to Disagree”.
It describes a pyramid. Everyone should be aware of it.
At the bottom are things like name-calling, insults and ad hominem arguments. Slightly higher, but not a whole lot better is “tone policing”
At the top is “refutuation” and even better “refutation of the central point.”
That’s what disagreements should be.
Because life is short, I block people (e.g the Theo dude who is going around whining about being blocked) who can’t get past the lower levels.
In contrast, people who disagree with me on matters of intellectual substance with real arguments (@emollick, @peterwildeford, @flowersslop, etc) are super welcome! I had a fabulous, respectful debate last year with @DKokotajlo and @hendrycks on @MLStreetTalk, and love that sort of thing.
If you get blocked me and wonder why, study the chart.
If you hate me and never want to see me again, that’s fine too, but I still recommend you study the chart.
(Credit: chart itself is by @bigthink, adapted from Graham’s essay)
