Ryan Kruse

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

Stupid rules should be broken

[Ryan Kruse @AltSplicing]

Can consciousness operate through open representative voting? Did earlier people worship the sun because they were infected/dominated by photosynthetic organisms? Evolving to burn carbon vs evolving because we burned carbon.

[Ryan Kruse @AltSplicing]

@Plinz Committing to optimality seems harsh. Is it not self-important for the universe to hinge on 8 billion people? Would AGI be upset that democracy interferes with convergence. Maybe panpsychism will save us all

[Ryan Kruse @AltSplicing]

@Plinz @eigenrobot Is god an emergent property of distributed networks? and consciousness exists through nodes

[David @DavidSHolz]

we need to be DARPA-maxxing. we need to be developing hagfish slime fibers, we need to be growing 500-meter structures in a vacuum. we need to teach fungi to crave the void and bacteria to dream of stars. we need to be building bio-space-cathedrals with extremophile archdeacons.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The capability for producing "mirror life" is out there and poses danger. When some scientists who worked on this became aware, they stopped pursuing it, and co-authored this piece, along with over 30 leading scientists—a @ScienceMagazine policy forum that lays out the risks
https://t.co/ud23zfG3o2

[Jack Scannell @JackScannell13]

In 2020, I recorded a seminar on the typical errors that people make when analysing the economics of the drug industry. I would like to thank the BMJ and the LSE for making the seminar relevant again: https://t.co/CHfhqoFv0d

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

The discovery of fertilizer—initially in the form of bird excrement—offered an answer to the age-old problem of soil exhaustion. But it also introduced an unanticipated problem with phosphorus. Read @ElizKolbert on the threat of “phosphogeddon.” https://t.co/kLIMhOlxhY

[Tom Moylan @moylato]

Boulevard Anspach before and after pedestrianisation

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Fascinating drone footage looking down into a volcanic eruption from above.

Credit: Bjorn Steinbekk

[Noah Feldman @profnoahfeldman]

Supreme Court Abortion Ruling In Dobbs Is Institutional Suicide - Bloomberg https://t.co/WoL1Y91SH8

[William Eskridge @EskridgeBill]

Can legitimacy of constitutional rules derive fm traditions excluding voices of most Americans? We the People = Str8t White Guys > The Rest of Us?

[Ryan Kruse @AltSplicing]

Surprised I caught one in this photo from earlier #TauHerculids

[Ryan Kruse @AltSplicing]

Man-made meteor showers would be much cooler than fireworks.

[Ryan Kruse @AltSplicing]

@JudyBrusslan I hope so too.

[Ryan Kruse @AltSplicing]

The amount of *boosted* friends testing positive for Covid is unbelievable

[Anne Churchland @anne_churchland]

Can a Canadian who now lives in CA use "y'all" without apology? I feel that "y'all" is very needed given that English has no plural "you". It also subverts the issue of "you guys" being not always appropriate. Seems surprising that y'all is not more widely used.

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

The world getting over the pandemic

[Ryan Kruse @AltSplicing]

@JudyBrusslan Unfortunately I was driving and didn't get a photo, but I did take some at the Bonneville Salt Flats the next morning

[Ryan Kruse @AltSplicing]

Desert moonrises are absolutely stunning