Bryony

[Andrew Gorton @AndrewGortonWx]

Tornado moving through Dallas County illuminated by lightning. Damage is confirmed.

[Liza Dixon ⚡️ @lizadixon]

BREAKING: #Neuralink Announcements from @verge, ahead of livestream 🔥

https://t.co/Yykd0M9YAS ht @samsheffer

[Aeon Magazine @aeonmag]

Mary Shelley foresaw that artificial intelligence would be made monstrous, not by human hubris but by human cruelty. From the archive https://t.co/0fgPigO7sR

[MarcGunther @MarcGunther]

Meet Ben Delo, the billionaire philanthropist who’s trying to stop humanity from destroying itself | my latest for @Medium #GivingPledge #philanthropy #effectivealtruism https://t.co/ETWTbumT0u

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans—anything except reason.

[Ragnar Weilandt @ragnarweilandt]

So @metpoliceuk has been running facial recognition trials, with cameras scanning passers-by. A man who covered himself when passing by the cameras was fined £90 for disorderly behaviour and forced to have his picture taken anyway.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

The most effective networking strategy I’ve found has nothing to do with conferences, cocktail hours, cold emails, or any of the common ideas you hear.

1) Do interesting things.
2) Share them publicly.

Like-minded people will come to you.

[Jude Gomila @judegomila]

1/ My team and I at Golden have been working diligently for the last two years to map out 10bn+ fascinating topics in high detail. Today we are officially launching, announcing a $5m seed round from @a16z @foundersfund, GigaFund and others

https://t.co/BZdN090Xd6 thread below ->

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

I was very pleased to be part of the team authoring a new paper out today in @nature calling for a new scientific field, #MachineBehavior: the study of intelligent machines (#robot #AI) using the methods of behavioral science. #hybridsystems https://t.co/uy6a2FRsb4

[Bryony @bryony_mc]

“....but this consciousness cannot flourish until it counterbalances and, to the extent possible, supersedes the polarized mind.”

https://t.co/43KzH6L0nX Biggest Threat: The Polarized Mind via @sciam

[Scientific American @sciam]

How can we tackle the abstract problem of climate change? Psychology offers a strategy to meet the threat https://t.co/hiG6Atgr2j

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Instead of going to Coachella, 100 of us went to the Mojave desert to socialize how to leverage biology to colonize space. Thanks @johncumbers. cc @SamAugustDean https://t.co/ewjsAebcXh

[Joi Ito @Joi]

My essay In @WiredUK about Resisting Reduction, the topic of my next book coming out in the Fall from @mitpress - Forget about artificial intelligence, extended intelligence is the future https://t.co/WUBtASHZAU

[Heterodox Academy @HdxAcademy]

"Since the late 1960s, researchers have surveyed young people on their levels of empathy... @SaraKonrath collected decades of studies... [contemporary] young people on average measure 40 percent less empathetic than my own generation..." https://t.co/q1C68FiYn2 @NPR @HannaRosin

[Sam Altman @sama]

What a human sees and what an AI sees playing Dota

[Dan Kaminsky @dakami]

Well, shit.

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

"They had sent many subtle warnings to the humans...before they arrived"

We'll make great pets.

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

.@ilyasut and I, together with awesome OpenAI coworkers, are starting a new team: the Reasoning team. Many people think deep networks are inherently unable to reason — we'll find out!

We're looking for a great people manager to join us. Interested? Email me: [email protected].

[MIT Technology Review @techreview]

Carbon-capture machines are needed to solve climate change. This man came up with the idea. https://t.co/uoOojG18qE