emerging democracy

What problems did the arrival of democracy solve? What resources made democracy possible?
How to solve these and current problems using contemporary means?

[Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful]

Going round in the circle. The very cool Amsterdam tube map.

(creator: Eric Hammink, source: https://t.co/pYPSegG4Cb)

[emerging democracy @demopolitan]

https://t.co/yogzLvYF2t

[Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي @NTarnopolsky]

#Breaking: @IsraeliPM says @Elizrael is an Israeli & Russian citizen who has been missing for several months in Iraq & is being held as a hostage by the Shia militia Hezbollah. Elizabeth Tsurkov is still alive & we see Iraq as responsible for her fate & safety.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my conversation with Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, all about self-assembling and self-replicating robots, and the future of fabrication at the boundary of physics and computation. This was fascinating & inspiring! https://t.co/2WuC8qJPvM

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Perhaps the most important question in the climate change debate:

How do we make it in China's economic self-interest to decarbonize?

The best answer we have is accelerating innovation in clean energy technologies to bring down costs faster.

[David Kirtley @Dkirtley]

This represents a major stride in Helion’s technology development. Trenta pulsed once every ten minutes. This test showed we can pulse the power systems for Polaris once per second for long durations. Huge!

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

Sunday will mark 34 years since the Tiananmen massacre.

While the Chinese government is making every effort erase people's memory, after all these years, dreams for democracy and freedom live on.

Read about it in the Daily Brief, today by @aliceautin: https://t.co/LKVnsqGbbB

[hardmaru @hardmaru]

Japan recently reaffirmed that it will not enforce copyrights on data used in AI training.

The policy allows AI to use any data “regardless of whether it is for non-profit or commercial purposes, whether it is an act other than reproduction, or whether it is content obtained from illegal sites or otherwise.”

HN Discussion: https://t.co/o0AMwtiOPj

Article: https://t.co/becRdblcfZ

(h/t @Dan_Jeffries1)

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

Chandra and JWST Join Forces in a Stunning Series of Images https://t.co/p4AtFSF1S4 via @universetoday

[Marietje Schaake @MarietjeSchaake]

My work is increasingly focused on tech policy in developing economies. @FukuyamaFrancis and I worked on this edited volume with papers ranging from surveillance in the Middle-East to cryptocurrencies in Argentina to semiconductors in India. Read here ↘️ https://t.co/7UfTLscp0R

[emerging democracy @demopolitan]

https://t.co/vj2ondPv1p

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan.

[Marieke Kuypers @KuypersMarieke]

Anyway

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Remember Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance?
"The seemingly self-contradictory idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance."

Here is an Internet-age corollary:
"In order to maintain a constructive discourse, online forums must retain the right to troll the trolls."

https://t.co/08AcUeyyst

[Pieter Abbeel @pabbeel]

Thank you @geoffreyhinton for diving deeper into the major potential risks you see with AI, and also reminding us of the tremendous potential for AI to improve our lives.

https://t.co/Q0WIBtU8bX

[@eliothiggins.bsky.social @EliotHiggins]

The truly tragic thing about this is Twitter was probably a key element of the development of online open source investigation and Bellingcat over the last decade, having a huge impact on multiple fields of work, and this is what we get.

[ikka @Shahules786]

Chain of thought reasoning is one of the most impressive qualities of LLMs. Taking advance of this, a recent paper just outperformed the 540B PaLM using 11B T5. How? 1/🧵

[Melanie Mitchell @MelMitchell1]

Recently I hosted a fantastic workshop at the Santa Fe Institute, entitled "AI and the Barrier of Meaning 2".

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[Melanie Mitchell @MelMitchell1]

We had eminent speakers from many fields to discuss these issues, including AI, cognitive psychology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, complex systems, and law.

AI used to be a subfield of computer science. Now it's a subfield of, well, everything. (2/4)