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Weekly Links, 04/25/2025

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Published: April 25, 2025 18:18

Something I knew nothing about: the degree to which job interviewees are trying to cheat with AI, and the difficulties that makes for good hires. Tech hiring: is this an inflection point? Excellent article on why humanoid robots are slow … Continue reading…

Epizone AI: Outside the Code Stack

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Published: April 22, 2025 00:22

Thesis: The missing element in forecasting the future of AI is to understand that AI needs culture just as humans need culture. One of the most significant scientific insights into understanding our own humanity was the relatively recent insight that ……

Weekly Links, 03/21/2025

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Published: March 21, 2025 20:45

This article “Fetility on Demand” by @RuxandraTeslo is a fantastic report on one way to increase the fertility rate by artificially extending reproductive age. Fertility on demand

Best Thing Since Sliced Bread?

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Published: March 14, 2025 17:23

The other day I was slicing a big loaf of dark Italian bread from a bakery; it is a pleasure to carve thick hunks of hearty bread to ready for the toaster. While I was happily slicing the loaf, the … Continue reading →

Public Intelligence

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Published: March 13, 2025 16:58

Imagine 50 years from now a Public Intelligence that was a distributed, open-source, non-commercial artificial intelligence, operated like the internet, and available to the whole world. This public AI would be a federated system, not owned by any one…

The Unpredicted

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Published: March 4, 2025 18:12

It is odd that science fiction did not predict the internet. There are no vintage science fiction movies about the world wide web, nor movies that showed the online web as part of the future. We expected picture phones, and … Continue reading →

The Self-Domesticated Ape

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Published: March 2, 2025 20:37

We aren’t the only species on this planet that have domesticated another species. There is one kind of ancient ant that herds and cares for insect aphids in order to milk them of honeydew sugar. But we are the only … Continue reading →

The Handoff to Bots

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Published: February 20, 2025 18:45

Summary: Human populations will start to decrease globally in a few more decades. Thereafter fewer and few humans will be alive to contribute labor and to consume what is made. However at the same historical moment as this decrease, we … Continue reading →

50 Years of Travel Tips

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Published: February 13, 2025 23:39

I’ve been seriously traveling for more than 50 years, and I’ve learned a lot. I’ve traveled solo, and I’ve led a tour group of 40 friends. I’ve slept in dormitories and I’ve stayed in presidential suites with a butler. I’ve … Continue reading →

Weekly Links, 01/31/2025

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Published: January 31, 2025 18:42

TIL: Why ancient Egyptian statues often had broken noses. Probably grave robbers hoping to kill the guardian gods by preventing them from breathing so they knock their noses off so they can’t exert revenge on the robbers. Why Are the … Continue reading →

Weekly Links, 01/17/2025

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Published: January 17, 2025 19:05

This surprising study showed that AI chat doctor was better than human Dr + AI. Not what we expected. Patients are going to use the chat Drs so once Drs figure out how to use them, they need to educate … Continue reading →