Prof. Brian Keating

Every great scientist is a storyteller.
I interview Nobel winners on @Into_Impossible🎙️
Cosmologist & Chancellor's Professor @UCSanDiego

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"I am a computer program!"

Embodiment is basically irrelevant for consciousness, so says @DavidDeutschOxf... and he brings the proof.

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"I am a computer program!"

Embodiment is basically irrelevant for consciousness, so says @DavidDeutschOxf... and he brings the proof.

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@AravSrinivas It’s really Cool but they really need to build a proper harness. Running python scripts to get
Emails classified isn’t gonna work for the average user. I don’t know why Jev or OpenAI or perplexity now doesn’t have a cool harness…

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MIT's Max @Tegmark says P(doom) falls "way way way way down" if one thing changes. What is it?

A) Binding safety standards before release
B) Interpretability of neural nets
C) Nothing, the race can't be stopped
D) Something else, tell me below

https://t.co/W9Ortr9FP8

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I want to believe!

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https://t.co/b6j2XB9OHH

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@aparanjape Wouldn’t have the name iPod if not for Arthur C. Clarke!

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@GZuckerman We’d be fracked…

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MIT's Max @Tegmark says P(doom) falls "way way way way down" if one thing changes. What is it?

A) Binding safety standards before release
B) Interpretability of neural nets
C) Nothing, the race can't be stopped
D) Something else, tell me below

https://t.co/W9Ortr9FP8

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This is what I say when asked for my list of vices 👇

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This is what I say when asked for my list of vices 👇

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@RichardGerraty @Briankeating It is physics alone.

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@rajshamani Taken from my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message
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With France Córdova, winner of tonight's Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. @Scripps_Ocean

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Watch the full conversation: https://t.co/pMOVNYBQAZ

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"I am a computer program!"

Embodiment is basically irrelevant for consciousness, so says @DavidDeutschOxf... and he brings the proof.

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@AdamMGrant Watch the full video here: https://t.co/OYcXGfIrws

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Don’t Trust Your Gut About People | @AdamMGrant

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Kids in my day: Model Trains

Kids today: Model Training

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Taken from my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message
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A Cloud Made of Thin Air

Every cloud we have ever seen, on Earth, Venus or Mars, needs a seed: a speck of dust or soot for water to condense on.

Over Arsia Mons, a Martian volcano about 20 kilometers tall, ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has watched a thin cloud stretch some 1,800 kilometers downwind every morning for a few months around the southern summer solstice. A team led by Jorge Hernández-Bernal of Sorbonne University now reports in Nature Geoscience that the volcano drives air up to 45 kilometers high and chills it by 30 degrees Celsius in minutes, so the water vapor becomes wildly supersaturated with no dust up there to grab onto, and it condenses all by itself. It may be the first time anyone has caught a seedless cloud in the act.

Mars keeps teaching us about limits, which is the heart of my talk “A T. rex on Mars”: the physics of a world decides what can grow there, from ice crystals to minds. Some ideas come out of thin air, and on Mars, so do clouds.

Read more: Sky & Telescope →https://t.co/gMXvJQteEX

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@peterboghossian @RichardDawkins 🙏 brother

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Thanks for sharing your wit, wisdom, and wanderings through life with us, @RichardDawkins