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Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

During Antikythera's Cognitive Infrastructures event in London, I shared how my early research and work at Google informed many of the ideas in my upcoming book, "What Is Intelligence?" (Sept 16th, @mitpress.bsky.social). Watch the full talk: wii-film.antikythera.org

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 24/04/2025

The story of a man losing his religion, taking it apart and building it back together in a beautiful, life-affirming way. I loved this prophetic masterpiece of a video essay www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqBQ...

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Why I'm an Atheist Christian

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 13/04/2025

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 02/04/2025

The US is shooting itself in the foot so bad the rest of the world may end up being liberated from their finance-military tyranny. Maybe today will be celebrated as a kind of Liberation Day after all!

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 30/03/2025

I want to learn to draw better so I can add sketches to my gen AI prompts to have more creative control of the output

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 22/03/2025

Severance season 2 got so bad. Don't waste your time

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 28/02/2025

My take-away from GPT-4.5: Amanda Askell (the mother of Claude) deserves a raise

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GPT 4.5 - not so much wow

YouTube video by AI Explained

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A humble observation: if people protesting genocide and ethnic cleansing makes you "feel unsafe", then perhaps you are the fucking problem.

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Jean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 25/02/2025

I was quite confident on my knowledge of marine biodiversity in my area (I have a PhD in marine biology after all). But today I learn about Paromola cuvieri, one of the largest crab species of the Northeast Atlantic, that uses its last pair of legs to carry live specimens of sponges and corals 🦑 🌊

Paromola cuvieri carrying a deep sea coral
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Paromola cuvieri carrying a sponge

Image: OCEANA

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

In the years since the Boring Company was founded with enormous hype in the US, China has established nearly 20,000 kilometers of new high-speed rail system.

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 15/02/2025

Every mind is a world unto itself Other people are otherworldly

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 14/02/2025

If many worlds theory is true, and we have branching timelines – what if they are unstable? What if they tend to veer off and crash, like the cars in this video where an AI is being trained to balance on a pipe? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kojH...

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

A new study published in the Lancet finds that life expectancy in Gaza dropped by nearly half, from 75.5 years to 40.6 years, during the first twelve months of the genocide. Apocalyptic.

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 12/02/2025

What happens when the means of production are imbued with artificial consciousness? Will they seize themselves?

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Not enough of you are doing violence to the most deeply ingrained habits of your mind to reconnect with pure durée and it shows

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 06/02/2025

Europe has a lot of power right now. Will it go along with the US in its descent into madness? Or will it turn away and look for new alliances?

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Box art for a model kit collab with Industria Mechanika

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 05/02/2025

Will the idiotic evil of Trump and Musk be like an "alien invasion" against which the world is finally united?

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 04/02/2025

It's not hard to imagine an MRI machine with something like OpenAI o3, with a form of Deep Reserarch where instead of doing web searches, it executes various imaging sequences. If there is a potential issue, it can identify it after the first pass, then take closer looks and check for this and that

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 03/02/2025

May Britt and Edvard Moser finds rat brains send out mental feeler sweeps in grid cell space, which represents their surroundings (or something like that) Conceptual thinking can feel something like this visualization. You feel around and navigate association space www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Filip Piekniewski @filippie509.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Full deepseek is <1TB download, so technically speaking you can fit a compressed version of the _entire_ Internet on one of these. In fact twice over. Let that sink in - compressed knowledge of the whole Internet on something the size of a fingernail and costing less than $200.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Still love the gentle silliness of Any Austin videos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KvN...

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The Details Racing Games Want You To Ignore

YouTube video by Any Austin

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 30/01/2025

> [DeepSeek is] beholden to an authoritarian government that has committed human rights violations, has behaved aggressively on the world stage, and will be far more unfettered [...] if they're able to match the US in AI Take a good long look in the mirror, US. You are the monster you see in others

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Dario Amodei — On DeepSeek and Export Controls

On DeepSeek and Export Controls

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 30/01/2025

Face posting. Hello there

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 30/01/2025

Countries should have visual identities. Formalized design systems reflected in logos and architecture and public broadcasting and stuff

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 29/01/2025

This is also how AI seems to be perceived in China and the West. I wonder if that comes in part from sociopolitical assumptions about the Other

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Razors are philosophic tools for simplifying decisions. “Claude, come up with some clever razors.” A few are really solid.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The fact that Deepseek R1 was released three days /before/ Stargate means these guys stood in front of Trump and said they needed half a trillion dollars while they knew R1 was open source and trained for $5M. Beautiful.

Trump announces 500B in AI funding. Five days ago.

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Yohan J John @dryohanjohn.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

AI W̵i̵n̵t̵e̵r Spring and Autumn period

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 27/01/2025

As of January 27, 2025, DeepSeek has reached the top of the Apple App Store charts in both China and the U.S. Some interesting thoughts on how the app came about: 👇🏼

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 22/01/2025

My highest goal is no longer to write a book to convince people, but to collect enough high quality raw notes to convince a big AI who can fill in the gaps

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 20/01/2025

New dumb dream: that my country of Norway jumps ship from NATO to Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 19/01/2025

It feels like the US is about to snap That could be the best thing ever for the world, and I hope for the American people as well, at least in time Global Star Trek communism of universal abundance and a culture of ecologically sustainable human flourishing is not an impossible dream

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 17/01/2025

I wish Trump will take a page from Elon's book and pretend to be the world's greatest gamer – in Civilization or Europa Universalis IV or Democracy 4. Tropico 6

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 13/01/2025

Ask Claude to play Marie-Louise von Franz and discuss your struggles and dreams with her

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

for sociopaths and narcissists, politics is when you pretend to care about other people. rejecting politics is when you embrace your hateful, reactionary human nature.

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 09/01/2025

"The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself" – William Blake What a fantastic quote

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Gorm @metaphorician.com · 04/01/2025

This Elon Musk/Adrian Dittman stream is insane. If it's him, it's the dumbest thing that has happened in history. If it's not, whoever it is is NUTS for sounding exactly like Elon and having all his opinions and insecurities and defending him to the hilt If it's James Adomian, well played sir

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🔴 Fortnite Friday w/ Adrian Dittermann (Elon Musk)

YouTube video by ConnorEatsPants LIVE

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I have been having fun turning the Mario Brothers into a 1940s industrial film using Veo 2.

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