Avery Bedows

✍️ Writing a meditation book about connecting with our authentic self.
🧘‍♂️ Running AND THE SUN, a newsletter about creative meditation.

[Mina Fahmi @minafahmi]

Introducing Universal Dictation on Stream

Push-to-talk across iOS and Mac: Instantly. No app switching, no reconnection.

We built Notes so nothing gets lost, and Chat so you can think out loud. With Dictation, your voice goes anywhere.

Notes, Chat, Dictation—in one voice ring

[Paul Litvak @PaulLitvak]

1/I've started a nonprofit to build AI tools that evaluate scientific evidence at scale.
Here's why this matters and what I'm building. 🧵

[AIVideoDotCom @AIVideoDotCom]

We just raised $5.9 million and turned the former SF mayor’s house into an AI studio

Today we’re announcing AIVideo, the first video creation platform designed from the ground up around ChatGPTs breakthrough image generation technology.

Here’s how it works, why it’s such a big deal, and the crazy video we shot last week (at the end) 🧵

[Avery Bedows @averybedows]

Really fun interview this week on AND THE SUN with @GabysuTP about Tibetan Dream Yoga. Gaby uses EEEG to communicate with Tibetan monks while they're meditating in their sleep. 😴

https://t.co/qZk787kJyo

[Avery Bedows @averybedows]

AND THE SUN post 2... live!

https://t.co/fC5Oqibj4y

[Avery Bedows @averybedows]

Hey X. Long time.

I just launched a newsletter. It's about creative, artistic, and inventive approaches to #meditation. Very excited about this

First post is up. Please, check it out! :)

https://t.co/LeT9OIeCKP

[Avery Bedows @averybedows]

From the lovely pioneers at @theIACS...

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Artificially vulnerable, fully empathic #AI is required to prevent sociopathic robots.

Learn more in a recent @SciRobotics Viewpoint: https://t.co/mVO68Ld4bF

[Avery Bedows @averybedows]

@MingzhuHe1 Community requires a fundamental value orientation towards... community. Slow time, joy in the present – as opposed to orientation towards the future, a la success, conquest, "build at scale".

[Avery Bedows @averybedows]

Wish English had a logical OR

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

Not an article I wanted to write.

The deadly H5N1 bird flu is spreading widely, including to mammals.

For the first time, it's now likely spreading mammal-to-mammal, among minks which are exceptionally well-suited conduits to humans.

We must act now.
https://t.co/aqd2TIqE5V

[Mina Fahmi @minafahmi]

Last year, @gytdau and I built an AI-powered journal, Linen

After 10s of users, 100s of prompts, and 1000s of entries, we shut it down

Here's what we learned 📝

[Jake Orthwein @JakeOrthwein]

Once heard someone ask a teacher about this on retreat: “there are many pursuits I don’t want to let go of.”

Teacher replied with a @ShinzenYoung phrase I think about a lot:

“The only thing we are ever called to let go of is our present moment sensory experience.”

Spot on.

[Jake Orthwein @JakeOrthwein]

sitting around the thanksgiving table like

[Mina Fahmi @minafahmi]

More than tools-for-thought, we need tools-for-feeling

[Mina Fahmi @minafahmi]

With the right prompt, GPT-3 can be shockingly good at this. Been exploring this heavily

[Jerry Tang @jerryptang]

we pushed the limits of this zero-shot transfer by testing the decoder on brain responses while subjects watched silent movies, and found that the decoder accurately described many movie events. this suggests that our decoder can transfer to non-linguistic semantic tasks! (5/7)

[Avery Bedows @averybedows]

Catch me live! This afternoon, 4:20pm eastern. Two and a half years of experience of my health, meditation adventures, and the relationships between them

[christian graves 🔮 @0xbrekolazh]

big excited to chat with my good friend + storyteller extraordinaire @averybedows on the show

set those reminders to stop by tmr @ 4.20 est on…

📖 wisdom from a patients journey
🧠 neurotech
🎨 artful storytelling
🙏 reflections on meditation

https://t.co/Lc2m8YdaiN

[Avery Bedows @averybedows]

tune in! – going live with @0xbrekolazh on Thursday at 4:20p eastern to talk about my forthcoming essay:

being a patient on a somewhat confusing health journey, meditation & mind, and why they're faces of the same prism

https://t.co/oWmGHAPr25

[Avery Bedows @averybedows]

@BGurfein https://t.co/hwAwcKwu6M

[Avery Bedows @averybedows]

People want "good" things when "good" is scarce – like finding great people who you really vibe with. But when "good" is abundant, it stops being interesting. So what's gonna happen w/ thousands of great AI personalities? I already feel the boredom creeping in, kinda sucks