The parallels between AI and the 1950s/60s organic chemistry revolution are quite astounding. Plastics, pharmaceuticals etc really were the first AI revolution. Just done by programming atoms rather than bits.
And another paper (finally) got published, this one together with some ecologist colleagues: "Niche emergence as an autocatalytic process in the evolution of ecosystems"
https://t.co/fwq09qIkOa
Time to rethink everything I thought I knew now that I know I’ve come into contact with tweets from a Russian group. I usually just believe every single thing I read but now maybe I will have to question it, or only believe it if it is from the US.
Total global arms exports by value: $192B
-US arms exports: $159B (83% of all sales)
-European Union: $15.3B
-Russia: $9.4B
-China: $2.9B
Source: New State Dept WMEAT report, table IVa: https://t.co/mXD8R27eI1
@necropolitical@thomasmurphy__ No, this is just a gross misreading refuted by even a surface evel read of intensive science and virtual philosophy and every book published since then. Delanda's project is translate D into an operational ontology commensurate with thermodynamics and chemistry (neither is royal)
@thomasmurphy__ Operative dimension of technical imgs can't be reduced to representstion following Roland Mayer...distinction isn't so much between technical imgs/text (this positions text as a kind of non technical image, which is problematic) dif is between pretechnical and technical imgs
"Rather, the problem is the civilizational model that hides behind a refined, white face, but has a dark past and a darker present." https://t.co/H7fF5VtFli