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• Power is Corruption: Who Desires to Go into the Mines?

  

  Power exists in two forms. There is power over oneself, and there is power over others. To have power over oneself means that one has the physical capacity to... Read more

  The 20 october 2026 by   Bjornostman
  @CarnyEvolution
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• A Talk With Thrasymachus: Empathy Is a Leash

  

  [The following dialogue was conducted with Claude (Sonnet 4.6), instructed to act as Thrasymachus as consistently and honestly as possible]I am Thrasymachus. Read more

  The 18 october 2026 by   Bjornostman
  @CarnyEvolution
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• Postdoctoral Fellow: Black Hole Initiative

  Applications are invited for Postdoctoral Research Fellows in the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) at Harvard University and affiliated with the Smithsonian... Read more

  The 12 october 2026 by   Wuthrich
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• Casino Culture Meets the Predictive Brain

  Max Read has a recent sharp piece in the New York Times Magazine, "Gambling Is the Culture," that I want to pass on, along with some thoughts it set off in me. Read more

  The 12 october 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence - a Future of Agents, AGI and the Orchestratio...

  I pass on this view of our future by Benjamin Bratton, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, and James Manyika in its entirety. It deserves a careful reading, and I'm not... Read more

  The 09 october 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• Future-Capable: Curiosity, Adaptability, and Kindness in the Age of AI

  I want to pass on the following edited Claude 4.8 reduction of a Colin Lewis article which I recommend you read through in its full form:Curiosity, Adaptability... Read more

  The 07 october 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• It's a Bitter, Bitter Lesson

  

  I can't resist passing this on, from Ethan Mollick's Substack "One Useful Thing':...I thought that getting agents to work effectively as a group would take... Read more

  The 06 october 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• Aging as a Continuation of Development

  A framework for a more positive view of the aging brain is offered by Fernandez et al., in an article in the "Perspectives on Psychological Science" journal. Read more

  The 05 october 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• Who Broke the World? Who Are the villains?...Where Do We Not Want to Be?

  I want to point to one of Nate Hagens' "Great Simplification" essays I found interesting. Hagens lays out eight distinct "lenses" through which people assign... Read more

  The 02 october 2026 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• Philosophers Awarded £4.1m to Further Research into Quantum and AI

  Philosophers at Bristol have been awarded two highly prestigious John Templeton Foundation and AHRC grants to advance their pioneering research into open quantu... Read more

  The 30 september 2026 by   Wuthrich
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