Apple's AI restraint is becoming its biggest competitive advantage: While rivals pour hundreds of billions into AI infrastructure, Apple's comparatively lean spending has turned it into a rare safe haven among mega-cap tech stocks. The company… https://t.co/Dh6neJW0WE #Apple#AI
Here is my response to that Nature essay that claimed I have "no evidence" that social media is causing harm to adolescents. (It's a condensed version of my longer post on AfterBabel).
Thanks to @JoinPersuasion for inviting it and shortening it:
https://t.co/htiKNdc3J6
Here's a short video giving an account of the Great Rewiring, from an Australian perspective. The same thing happened there at the same time as in the USA, UK, Canada, New Zealand...
something like an IAEA for advanced AI is worth considering, and the shape of the tech may make it feasible:
https://t.co/YbbIPOO1p9
(and to make this harder to willfully misinterpret: it's important that any such regulation not constrain AI below a high capability threshold)
5/5 Today was an exhilarating day as we wrapped up such a rewarding journey with amazing soulful, lovely people united by the desire to make a difference!
1/5 We concluded today a pro bono advisory project for the development of the Maker Box prototype: a box with dynamics of experiential education for public high schools; sponsored by the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Brazil.
4/5 It took over 50 hours of online consulting and 237 interactions between 38 co-creators and experts in 10 Sprints, involving 11 American Spaces spread throughout Brazil. In addition, the prototype has a support website with lesson plans and guidelines for the workshops.
“Overstimulating yourself with news and the goings-on of those around you, can lead toward dangerous habits like self-effacement and social comparison bias”. Good article “How to Stop Doomscrolling—With Psychology” https://t.co/gB9PrtIDI5
“The past 8 decades of relative peace among the great powers led to a rapidly globalizing world that has been the key to China’s rapid economic rise, and the elevation out of poverty for some 800 million Chinese people since 1980. Peace has been very good for China.”
In Opinion
"If China announced that, rather than staying neutral, it was joining the economic boycott of Russia," writes Thomas Friedman, "it might shake Vladimir Putin enough to stop this vicious war." https://t.co/UyTWEG0PWo
Historian Timothy Snyder rejects the claim that NATO expansion is a primary cause of the Ukraine crisis. "The world isn't just about Washington and Moscow. It's also about other sovereign states and other peoples who can express their desires and have their own foreign policies."
Great article from Yuval Noah... “If tyranny and aggression are allowed to win, we will all suffer the consequences. There is no point to remain just observers. It’s time to stand up and be counted.” https://t.co/lVWwS2s0zf
The Brazilian think tank of International Relations, CEBRI, has just launched its magazine - which can be compared to Foreign Affairs. Extraordinary content for those who want to know what the best minds in Brazil think about the global challenges https://t.co/TljyciclGR
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky calls digital nomadism the “decentralization of living” - the biggest shift in air travel since the advent of commercial flights after WWII. I completely agree and I’m personally surfing this new wave of changes in lifestyle https://t.co/nN2KPuOO0j
Great class today on Megatrends, Foresight & Strategy with the great team from Copenhagen Institute - one of my favorite think tanks specialized on Future Studies: https://t.co/jnTBxFId1a