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Illustrating holophrens' universal, highly-varied embodiments (created w/Claude's inputs)
Should you have interest: related brief Claude collaboration: DM Good day to you. As we have extensively discussed, the universal Holophren is "substrate independent," while prevailing in wide variety of types of living and non-living entities, is so in discrete, compound, and fractal arrangement. A holophren can manifest in a distributed design (such as a in an oak tree, bee hive, business organization or immune system); or may manifest centralized manner (such as in our hu

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Why the Intelligence Gap Really Matters
Great thinkers and artists throughout history have argued that you can’t have true romance without a meeting of the minds.

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The Adaptive Advantage:Who’s Winning With AI and How
Executive summary: As AI moves deeper into enterprise workflows, leaders need benchmarks that reveal not only whether investments are paying off, but also how transformation is being experienced across the workforce. The Full Report

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What Does It Mean to Be ‘Happy’ at Work?
In an excerpt from his new book, ‘The Insider Advantage,’ Wharton’s Matthew Bidwell examines what provides a fulfilling career, as well as which jobs have the highest and lowest job satisfaction.

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The overlooked memo that could reshape federal science
An inspirational 120-page essay received a lot of buzz. But it’s a different document that has real power.

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What Happened When the Volk Turned Against the Woke
In “Weimar Germany,” Victor Sebestyen focuses on the populist culture wars that brought an end to popular rule in the fledgling republic.

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‘This Is Nuts.’
An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.

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Is the U.S under-policed? Malcolm Gladwell on Policing in America & His New Book "The American Way of Killing" with Jimmy Kimmel
Malcolm talks about his new bestselling book The American Way of Killing, the cities of America being under policed comparatively to foreign counterparts, Baltimore being an example of a place that has brought down shootings, murders and arrests. Related book: The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic

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Aaron Sorkin on "The Social Reckoning"
Aaron Sorkin's Oscar-winning screenplay for "The Social Network" helped define Mark Zuckerberg in the public imagination. Sixteen years later, Sorkin turns from Facebook's origins to its consequences. He wrote and directed "The Social Reckoning," inspired by whistleblower Frances Haugen's leak of thousands of internal documents to Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz. Correspondent Jo Ling Kent talks with Sorkin and Haugen about Facebook's power – and what it means for a

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Why holding onto grudges can be damaging
Studies have shown that people who hold grudges have greater levels of cardiovascular trouble, and higher levels of depression and anxiety. But according to one survey, four out of five adults harbor some lingering resentment towards others, sometimes over the smallest of reasons. Correspondent Susan Spencer talks with experts about why some people can maintain grudges for years; how holding grudges can be counterproductive; and what it takes to have forgiveness overcome ling

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A.I. Companies Say They Aren’t Responsible for Their Unpredictable Products. Don’t Believe Them.
When companies create products that hurt people, the victims can sue. The legal system allows those who are harmed to seek compensation from those who are responsible. These liability laws are one of the oldest forms of corporate regulation, and an effective one. Liability is a powerful incentive to behave responsibly. It speaks to corporations in a language they understand: Money.

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Wharton researchers studied 760 employees—and found an inconvenient truth about remote work
But wait. Some of those conversations you were glad to escape may have been doing a job, too. New research from Wharton management professor Peter Cappelli and University of Texas at Austin communications professor Y. Jasmine Wu suggests that working remotely can weaken “relational capital.” Related: Could working from home also strain your relationship?

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Google CTO: A unifying theory of life, intelligence, and technology
Blaise Agüera y Arcas argues that function defines life more than material does, and that AI belongs in the same story

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How to Be Happy Growing Older
Your future will probably be better than your past. Related: The Seven Habits That Lead to Happiness in Old Age Related: The Kind of Smarts You Don’t Find in Young People

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I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.

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The Biggest Source of Inequality That No One Talks About
We're focused on the wrong tax loophole

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U.S. Retreats: From the Gulf to Britain, American Forces Pull Back
A war that was intended to demonstrate the reach of American power has now done the opposite. It is a lesson in unintended consequences.

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The Pentagon’s autonomy command should draw on lessons old and new
AUTOWARCOM will have a big task. Luckily, it’s not starting from scratch.

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If AI becomes conscious, how would we treat it? Animals may hold a clue.
Our beliefs about AI consciousness may depend less on evidence and more on self-interest.

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The Violence Sweeping France Was Never Really About Schools
Much of the protesting by students has become an exercise in nihilistic resentment.

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