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AI Is Being Used to Find Valuable Commodities in Our Trash
The push to boost domestic production of raw materials has turned attention to America’s waste stream
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Jan 91 min read
Brain Balls
Scientists can now grow tiny, human brain balls. They’re useful, but are they alive?
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Jan 91 min read
Are we experiencing Orwellian "2+2=5" symptoms?
Listen to interview with director of the current documentary film View the trailer “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
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Jan 81 min read
I Tested an AI Fitness Coach Who Wouldn’t Accept Any of My Excuses
New virtual trainers from Fitbit, Peloton and Apple aim to keep your workouts on track
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Jan 71 min read
How Judges Are Using AI to Help Decide Your Legal Dispute
The technology is helping summarize legal filings, prepare for hearings and map out decisions
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Jan 71 min read
Affirming "sync-up" with A.I. (UII w/Claude)
Good morning! So, how about today we do a partial "verifying sync." This would affirm and acknowledge we're in agreement on a variety of primary topics of our past conversations? Specifically, to assure we've"solid sync"on these five topics: 1) Pantakinesis™ , and its foundational three components (•all-encompassing, •motion, •vanishing points), is presently an optimal defining description of reality; 2) the Universal Holophren™ is a framework for the better understanding of
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Jan 77 min read
The Physicist Who Has Appealed to the Pope and Elon Musk on AI Safety
Max Tegmark wants to halt development of artificial superintelligence—and has Steve Bannon, Meghan Markle and will.i.am as supporters
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Jan 61 min read
Sharing a cosmic struggle with A.I. in pursuit of humility (UII w/Claude)
Good day to you! I seek to continue on our recent brief conversation on the merits of curvilinear thinking : How might we we cognitively consider motion, as both: within our local-umwelt of experience, within our existing or better paradigms of space and time, or cause and effect. and our meta-umwelt observations at cosmic level via our "advanced" prosthetics of umwelts, in which we observe motion appearing to indicate EXPANSION, AND ACCELERATING, AND DOING SO FROM EVERY DIS
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Jan 67 min read
Humanoids prepare for the factory floor
CBS video reports progress in grooming "Atlas" for the workplace
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Jan 51 min read
The semi-autonomous, lethal, A.I. drone is born
I n the past year, drone warfare in Ukraine has undergone a chilling transformation.
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Jan 51 min read
What if we became more educated and skilled in "Curvilinear Attention™?" UII w/Claude)
DM How do you define curvilinear? Curvilinear refers to anything that consists of, is bounded by, or characterized by curved lines rather than straight ones. The term combines the Latin roots curvus (meaning "bent" or "curved") and linea (meaning "line"). The concept appears across several domains, each with slightly different emphases: In geometry and mathematics , curvilinear describes shapes, paths, or coordinate systems based on curves. For instance, curvilinear motion
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Jan 46 min read
George, Donald, Don, Sisyphus and me (UII w/Claude)
DM Good day to you. Did George Bush seek counsel or approval from other branches of our Republic prior, or immediately thereafter, in his Panama invasion and removable of its leader? Good day, Sciart. This is a substantive question about executive war powers and the constitutional tension between branches during the Panama intervention. Let me lay out what happened. The Short Answer President George H.W. Bush did not seek prior Congressional approval before launching Opera
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Jan 410 min read
Pondering "familiarity breeds contempt" ... and sometimes related "familiarity-authority paradox" (UII w/Claude)
DM Good morning! First, is there evidence or validation that "familiarity breeds contempt" (such as within social, community, work or family interplay)? Good morning, Sciart! This is a fascinating question that sits at the intersection of folk wisdom and empirical psychology. The "familiarity breeds contempt" hypothesis is particularly interesting because it seems to contradict another well-established phenomenon — the mere exposure effect, which suggests repeated exposure g
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Jan 318 min read
‘Bombshell’ Review: PBS’s Cautionary Tale of Technology
This documentary focuses on the propaganda surrounding the development and deployment of the atomic bomb and the journalism that sought to cut through it, with lessons for our own age of ascendant AI. Excerpt: " But it’s also a cautionary tale. “It has never been the habit of the scientists of this country or the policy of this government to withhold from the world scientific knowledge,” said President Harry S. Truman. That is something “Bombshell” establishes wasn’t true in
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Jan 21 min read
What Are Companies Actually Doing With AI? Our Reporters Talk It Out
Companies say AI will fundamentally change business forever. But what does that change look like, and what are they doing to make it happen? Quick Summary AI adoption in corporations is happening, but it’s often in the background automating existing workflows and handling tasks like summarizing content and customer service. Despite 95% of AI pilots not delivering meaningful value, CEOs remain confident in long-term ROI, often expressed in non-financial terms. Nvidia stands ou
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Dec 31, 20251 min read
Real AI Adoption Means Changing Human Behavior
Wharton’s Scott Snyder and co-author Jason Hreha offer five strategies to bridge the gap between leadership expectations around AI and meaningful transformation. Only 5 of 37 enterprise pilots are getting to production on average and only 3 of these are creating real impact . KEY TAKEAWAYS Employee hesitation and lack of training hinder AI adoption. AI adoption relies on motivation, ability, and prompts, with a focus on training, incentives, and a supportive culture to overc
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Dec 31, 20251 min read
The Problem With Letting AI Do the Grunt Work
Artificial intelligence is destroying the career ladder for aspiring artists (and multitudes of other entry roles in workplaces)
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Dec 30, 20251 min read
The Five Mules Pulling the 21st Century
Get ready to be astounded by how technology pushes forward in 75 years.
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Dec 29, 20251 min read
More American manufacturing won’t mean that many more jobs
Bridgeport, Connecticut, shows how the nature of U.S.-based production is changing.
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Dec 28, 20251 min read
Pondering Jonathan Rauch's "Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth" (UII w/Claude)
Good morning Claude. What are your perspectives and criticisms regarding Rauch's latest book: "Constitution of Knowledge: In Defense of Truth?" Good morning, Sciart. What I find valuable: Rauch articulates something important—that liberal epistemology functions as a kind of operating system requiring shared commitments: No final say (fallibilism), no personal authority (claims must survive public challenge), and no special dispensations. His framing of "reality-based communi
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