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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This technology can really help the color blind, I believe. But I'm done being an entrepreneur. If you know any color blind people who might be interested, please pass this on. (I'm told Mr. Gates and Mr. Zuckerberg are color blind.) drmime.substack.com/publish/post...

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Extending Human Vision with Chronochromic Algorithms

A technology that helps the color blind today, and promises superhuman vision tomorrow, because you can’t have too much color in your life.

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now that the quick takes have passed, I want to raise two important topics Pope Leo omitted from his wonderful encyclical about AI, Magnifica Humanitas. From my new substack! drmime.substack.com/p/ai-where-p...

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Where the Pope Did Not Go: Magnifici Cogitatores et Sentientes

Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s May 2026 encyclical about Artificial Intelligence, will be remembered as a milestone in the history of serious thought about AI.

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes, my notion of a cyborg and his of a reverse centaur (I think that's what he calls it) are actually pretty similar. Hope you enjoy the book!

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Praise from early readers: guppylake.com/AdvancePrais...

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My new book, offering a constructive and guardedly hopeful perspective on AI and the future of humanity, is now available from iPub and Amazon. I'll put a link to some early readers' reactions in the first comment. Please share with anyone who might be interested! ipubcloud.org/products/the...

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The Spirit of a Cyborg: From the Dawn of the Information Age to a Shar

The Spirit of a Cyborg explores AI ethics, human-technology convergence, digital spirituality, and the moral foundations of artificial intelligence.

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Larry Ellison preaches the scary gospel of the surveillance state. I don't spread rumors, but I will say that I have *heard* more unsubstantiated horrible rumors about Larry Ellison than anyone else in the tech industry. Where there's both smoke and fascism, something is probably burning.

techradar.com

Quote of the day by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — a dire warning on the ero...

Legendary technologist Larry Ellison has outlined a vision for an increasingly aggressive surveillance state in the 21st century

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

As if Magnifica Humanitas didn't break enough ground talking about AI, it also includes the Vatican's clearest-ever repudiation of the "just war" theory!

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

There is a lot of good stuff in Magnifica Humanitas. I'm still letting it sink in.

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

After endless iterations, my book has a title, subtitle, and cover design. Coming this summer from iPub Cloud International!

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Self-assessment is something humans aren't good at either. If we could make AI's better than humans at assessing their own level of certainty, that might be the turning point after which they'd quickly exceed humans at nearly everything else.

news.mit.edu

Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure”

MIT CSAIL's “Reinforcement Learning with Calibration Rewards” technique improves AI confidence estimates without sacrificing performance, addressing a root cause of hallucination in reasoning mod...

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Our local high school team has qualified for the national robotics championship in Houston! But they need to raise a fair amount of money in a community reeling from back-to-back disasters (ice storm and floods), so please consider supporting rural robotics via the link in the first comment!

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I've been nsb online for most of the last 50 years. Now Mastadon believes I am the Nike Shoe Bot. For the record, I am not.

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

A watershed moment for AI: Turing Award winner Donald Knuth just had AI solve one of his hardest problems. Knuth's (not peer reviewed) paper actually starts with the words, "Shock! Shock!" If the Singularity is real (I doubt it) it must surely be coming soon.

www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Stevens is generally on the right side, but not the fighter we need. El-Sayed is a fighter who I fear can't win. Mallory McMorrow is a fighter who can actually win.

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Worth mentioning that while Murphy was an incumbent, he had been appointed to the Senate less than a year earlier to fill a vacancy. Cornyn has been elected to the Senate 4 times, so it would be even more impressive.

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.” ― William Faulkner, Light in August

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

In the early 1980's, a defense contractor named Advanced Information and Decision Systems had to change its name, having previously been branded as AIDS. I bear no ill will to Elon University, but I kind of hope they suffer a similar fate.

newsobserver.com

No, not that Elon ... An NC university tries to distance itself from the DOGE leader

Elon University often gets confused with the billionaire in charge of DOGE, despite no connection, but the mix-ups have increased in the most recent Trump era.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

All you need to know about Twitter

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I've been thinking that since he came down the escalator in 2015, actually.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Bobby Jr. shares his secret to getting brain worm.

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Marx Brothers! Popeye! Buck Rogers! Faulkner! Ain't Misbehavin'! These and much more are about to become the common property of all humanity!

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Nathaniel Borenstein @drmime.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A decade in the making, I am unveiling a new technology for the 660 million people in the world with color vision deficiency. Here is the link to try the free web player: blue.colorphi.net Here is the link to learn more: colorphi.com Please share & feel free to contact me for more details.

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