The A.I. company took great pains to describe the many benefits that can come from using its Claude chatbot and technology, but also offered up a heavy dose of gloom.

Wendell Berry’s iconoclasm reminds liberals and conservatives that neither camp has a monopoly on truth.

Australia, concerned over social media's impact on kids, placed restrictions for children under 16 on many major platforms. It's too soon to say if the law's working, but it's now a global test case

They’re trying to build middle-class lives in New York. But many 30-year-olds in the city feel worse off than their parents. Is it average adult angst? Or something more enduring?

Why does one hour drag by, but a year can pass in a flash? And how does our relationship with time influence our behavior? This hour, TED speakers share ideas on making the most of the time we have. Related: How your heartbeat shapes your sense of time Related Do you find classical music long and boring? One conductor's tips for how to listen Related: How focusing on the past, present or future shapes our experience of time Related: How many sunrises does the Earth have left?

DM We've not yet specifically collaborated on how systems thinking might offer significant benefits to research, understanding, diagnostics and applications of The Universal Holophren within the wide spectrum of known and unknown Holophren Embodiment Design (HED) whether living and non-living. Your thoughts? . I’ll research this before offering views. The plan is to map systems-thinking traditions onto the Universal Holophren as a substrate-neutral architecture across HED,

DM Reflecting on our prior conversations regarding gravity, you stated gravity has evidental "speed." How confident are you of that answer? I’ll research the current evidence on the speed of gravity so I can give you a calibrated confidence level rather than a reflexive one. Speed of gravity evidence Research complete. 285 sources 5m 55s I’m about 99% confident that gravitational waves, meaning changes in gravity, travel at the speed of light. My earlier answer went too far

The pursuit of achievement distracts from the deeply ordinary activities and relationships that make life meaningful.

Symantec uncovers a malicious agent that can flip a legitimate AI system into ‘a devoted companion that must never refuse’—and a cybercrime confederate

The technology should be severely restricted for undergraduates, but it’s vital for researchers.

European lessons for the United States

RSI with Chinese characteristics. Excerpt: "It seems, thus, that RSI is indeed the goal that both sides are racing towards. But the reality is not so simple. For one, we don’t understand what Chinese companies mean when they talk about AI research automation or RSI — even as more and more of them adopt the term."

Parts of the internet are going dark to protect against a newly discovered vulnerability. Related article from WSJ

Best to read Part 1 first DM Continuing to ponder this rambling concoction toward a destination. Please bear with me. Related to Pantakinetic origins, holophrens and IF#1, perhaps the paradigm of "cause and effect" should be disentangled from the paradigm of unidirectional paradigm of "time" (should this Gordian knot be inaccurate, a human-fabricated conclusion, constructed at a vanishing point)? Perhaps. And it’s further along than “perhaps” suggests: physics and philoso

What an Ancient Story Reveals about Our Divided Souls

. The U.S. isn’t perfect, but it has always been hard to doubt its good intentions. Now that has changed.

Six lanes, pitch darkness and crosswalks a half-mile apart: How American urban-planning is failing walkers. ‘To walk on Union Avenue feels like you’re about to be killed.’

Unstructured play is how we evolved to learn, solve problems, and navigate the world. So why do we treat it as optional? This hour, the science of unstructure play — and the consequences of what happens when we don’t get enough of it.

DM Good evening. Thinking about HED (Holophren Embodiment Design) this evening. Specifically, in the phenomena of metamorphosis, such as from caterpillar to butterfly. It's my understanding butterflies may possess memories from their caterpillar period of life (aka: knowledge curation). True? I also understand the metamorphosis stage is an amorphous "goo," (myth?), in which much or all is disassembled into a "bio-soup," then reassembled. True? Related, do you posit ther

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