How does it work

Exploring the structure of reality.

[How does it work @generuso]

Sufficiently advanced ability to understand context and choose action depends on being aware of self as a causal agent within the situation.

[Jessica Flack @C4COMPUTATION]

The implications of Shannon's work do indeed continue to reverberate but it is somewhat misleading to ascribe the implications for basic science + our daily lives to his genius alone. Rather the implications are due to delicate synergies.

It is Shannon's work in synergistic combination with Turing's, von Neumann's, Jaynes', Hofstader's, Gell-Mann's, Hopfield's, Hartle's, Wheeler's and many others that provides the foundations for the science of information, computation and emergence that is just beginning to flourish.

And it is places like Bell Labs + (traditionally) The Santa Institute that in providing a "common now"—to channel Jim—facilitate the collision of minds and ideas that allow this instrumental synergy to grow.

The concepts of synergy + higher order interactions—and our ability to formalize them—is itself an outcome of these collisions.

What is the character of institutions, of policies, of our collaborations that allows synergies to flourish? What is the nature of environments that crush synergies? The key to enriching the present + future lies in no small part on this understanding + what we *choose* do with it.

[Kording Lab 🦖 @KordingLab]

LLMs generate tokens from past to future. But they may just as well generate them from future to past. Has anyone compared these? Why does the next token prediction model dominate?

[Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain]

Looking forward to this debate on Free Will with Robert Sapolsky, next week - online, hosted by @UCD_CMB (link to follow)

[Tony Zador @TonyZador]

NAISys -- NeuroAI meeting CSHL Sept 28-Oct 4

save the date...and

Abstract Deadline July 12

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@JasonDanheiser @wholemars @28delayslater Self-driving cars & useful humanoid robots require a sophisticated understanding of reality. I am increasingly convinced that they are on the path to solving AGI.

Should AGI be solved? I don’t know, but humanity is moving rapidly in this direction whether I like it or not.

[Oleg Kutkov 🇺🇦 @olegkutkov]

Success!
SpaceX Starlink is working in Kyiv, Ukraine!
The Dishy was placed just outside my window, even without adjustments.

Thanks, @SpaceX team, for your support :)

cc @FedorovMykhailo

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@FedorovMykhailo Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route.

[How does it work @generuso]

@alexeypa, @Erdayastronaut

[Mykhailo Fedorov @FedorovMykhailo]

@elonmusk, while you try to colonize Mars — Russia try to occupy Ukraine! While your rockets successfully land from space — Russian rockets attack Ukrainian civil people! We ask you to provide Ukraine with Starlink stations and to address sane Russians to stand.

[How does it work @generuso]

@elonmusk @tomdestella The best ideas seem obvious, afterwards.
https://t.co/5Nrakz5apK

[Adam J Calhoun @neuroecology]

https://t.co/FcDBQCpI1L

[How does it work @generuso]

Amazing international effort to design a small molecule medication against COVID-19 virus.
#science_to_the_rescue

[COVID Moonshot @covid_moonshot]

Chemists around the world were busy last night... Almost 400 new molecules submitted in a day!

New totals are 237 unique user submissions for a total of over 1300 designed molecules. Thank you all for your hard work so far!

[COVID Moonshot @covid_moonshot]

This is amazing. 3 scientists organized a hackathon and spent 20 hours straight designing COVID MPro inhibitors https://t.co/TkELT4sJ3c
See and comment on their designs here: https://t.co/VNTFr4uF9F https://t.co/Xt4tidYoY8

[How does it work @generuso]

The pace of research into the new virus is breathtaking!

The structure of SARS-CoV-2 main protease has been solved, which helps to design improved inhibitors.

https://t.co/pQggiquz27

[Jessica Flack @C4COMPUTATION]

Overwhelmingly large elephant in room is we need asap quantitative comparison of alt strategies that takes into account 1st & at least 2nd order effects. To do this we need to identify issues (hc infrastructure, death rate under diff scenarios, economic impact, etc.) @sfiscience

[How does it work @generuso]

Another excellent cartoon by @Kurz_Gesagt
https://t.co/eNBUeQ9sed

[Tony Zador @TonyZador]

What is the Covid-19 endgame? How long are we going to have to live like this?

Right now, it looks like we are going to have to wait at least 12-18 months until we get a vaccine. (1/n)

[Nathan Clark nclark.bsky.social @NathanClark111]

Pittsburghers are needed to staff around-the-clock production of new ventilators so drastically needed to treat COVID patients.
Please RT, especially if you have a following around Pittsburgh.
https://t.co/49SgM2rX57

[nature @Nature]

Physicist Freeman Dyson has passed away at the age of 96. His autobiography, published in 2018, reads like "a travel journal written for people he loves and trusts." https://t.co/mOTPVOPmmE

[How does it work @generuso]

A brilliant and often unorthodox mind.
https://t.co/cnEMQKv0SJ

[nature @Nature]

Physicist Freeman Dyson has passed away at the age of 96. His autobiography, published in 2018, reads like "a travel journal written for people he loves and trusts." https://t.co/mOTPVOPmmE

[Kording Lab 🦖 @KordingLab]

Teaching GANs this Tuesday. I know we love images, but am I the only one to whom they feel very hacky? It's almost like I am feeling dirty for teaching them. Has anyone ever managed to teach them as something elegant?