Today’s column is brought to you by the letters U, B, F, and I. The “F” is optional but, in the next couple of decades, the “UBI” part will likely spell the difference between who gets to eat and who gets exploited into starvation. 3, 2, 1, intro time: Issue #3 Anything but basic (484 …
Go on…More than Meets the AI: Universal Basic Freaking Income (UBFI)
Never offer feedback on a demo tape. You probably didn’t come to this article today to get advice from a recording studio engineer, but here we are. First, though, we need to intro today’s column. Issue #2: The Nick Cave Trap (436 words) Boston Dynamics is out of control! (144 words) A quantum rant (262 …
Introducing More than meets the AI, a daily column providing news and analysis on artificial intelligence at the cutting edge. This inaugural edition covers: What is “More than meets the AI?” (211 words) Defining “pre-AGI” (189 words) A call to action (146 words) What is More than meets the AI? The first time I got …
How many (alive) plants do you have in your home right now? I’ve never considered myself someone with a “green thumb.” I get easily distracted and overwhelmed, and plants are the first thing in my life to get neglected, which is fine, they’re just plants, but I do care about them and they often bring …
Go on…Love Yourself! newsletter # 10 – Welcome to the propagation station of self-love
Good Enough I’ve really struggled to get this edition of the newsletter published, ironically, since its whole theme was intended to be “good enough is good.” I’ve gone through waves of procrastination, finally getting everything put together except for this intro. I started it a dozen times and sat at my keyboard with disorganized static …
Nature abhors a binary. As far as I can tell, the only place binaries actually exist is in the human imagination. Even life and death, the ultimate human binary, are just processes affecting our physical matter — matter that was here long before we became conscious and will exist long after we’re pronounced dead. We …
Go on…Understanding binaries part one: Here’s why there aren’t any LGBTQ AIs
Surely you’ve heard the old axiom that romantic love is nothing more than a series of chemical reactions that take place in our brains. While that’s technically true — humans are made of matter, just about everything we do involves a chemical reaction — there’s a lot more to it than just dopamine and oxytocin release. …
A team of scientists at the MRC lab in the UK have experimentally confirmed that healthy human brains typically reach temperatures as high as 105 degrees F (40.5 C) throughout the course of a normal day. File under: it’s okay to be a little hot-headed. We’ve all been told that our regular body temperature should …
Go on…Study: Your brain runs as hot as 105 degrees F and that’s just fine
Binaries do not exist in nature. In fact, I’d go so far as to say the universe abhors the binary. Nothing either is or isn’t. If that were the case, if anything simply was or wasn’t, then anyone who’s ever played a game of Go knows that eventually, all things would either be or they …
Approximately 86% of the people who see the above hero image will experience involuntary pupil dilation. No, that’s not a GIF and the image isn’t manipulating your monitor’s refresh rate. If you’re among those who perceive the illusion, your brain is actually being tricked into believing you’re entering a darkened space. Dubbed ‘the expanding hole’ …
Go on…Scientists found a trippy illusion that triggers pupil dilation (in most people)