Trial By Error: Column in Time Magazine Calls for Halt to Biomedical Long Covid Research
By David Tuller, DrPH *This is a crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley for my Trial by Error project. If you…
Emmett Shear to be interim CEO of OpenAI — LessWrong
This is still breaking as of 9:30 PT on Sunday, but according to a Bloomberg Journalist: • … ……
Frog or chicken
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You can just spontaneously call people you haven’t met in years — LessWrong
Here’s a recent conversation I had with a friend: … … Read More
On Nepal’s day to honor dogs, wild canines face mounting threats
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AI Timelines — LessWrong
Introduction How many years will pass before transformative AI is built? Three people who have thought a lot about this…
Former Meta employee tells Senate company failed to protect teens’ safety
A former Meta employee testified before a US Senate subcommittee on Tuesday, alleging that the Facebook and Instagram parent company…
OpenAI unveils personalised AI apps, seeks to expand ChatGPT consumer business
OpenAI unveiled a marketplace that enables users to access personalised artificial intelligence “apps”. … Read More
OpenAI to make models cheaper, more powerful in its first developer conference
ChatGPT maker OpenAI is expected to announce product enhancements that will make its AI models cheaper. … Read More
The other side of the tidal wave — LessWrong
I guess there’s maybe a 10-20% chance of AI causing human extinction in the coming decades, but I feel more…
Zombie Uprisings Can Help Us Predict How Future Pandemics Spread
You don’t always have to look to the real world to figure out how plagues propagate. … Read More
Wild New Physics Theory Explains Why Time Travel Is Impossible
Sliding care-free through the complete emptiness of space, light covers a constant 299,792,458 meters every second. … Read More
Neutron Star Collision Caught Forging Heavy Metals in a JWST First
The kilonova explosion that resulted when two neutron stars slammed into each other a billion light-years away turned out to…
Along the world’s most voluminous river people queuing for water
In Careiro da Varzea, Brazil, thousands of isolated communities are struggling due to the Amazon drought. Public authorities are delivering…
Untested Ideas for Defeating War Tunnels (in Gaza) — LessWrong
CW: Isr/Pal discussion. • [Normativity status: non-normative. Not saying anyone should do any of these, and if someone did there…
‘Existential Threat’: Scientists Warn Life on Planet Earth Is Under Siege
Climate change poses an … Read More
New Link Between Fungal Organisms And Severe COVID Discovered
Many tiny organisms including bacteria, fungi and viruses normally live on our bodies, and even inside us. … Read More
Sumatran Indigenous seafarers run aground by overfishing and mangrove loss
Environmental science and conservation news … Read More
Urgent advice needed for producing a water powered car model
So far we created two designs. The first design was a three CD wheel car. The back wheels had a…
FDA warns Neil Riordan U.S. perinatal firm Signature Biologics
Stem cell biologics analyzes FDA warning to Neil Riordan and his firm Signature Biologics over their unapproved umbilical cord drug….
The Vitamin That Double Weight Loss & Reduces Inflammation
50 percent of people are deficient in this vitamin. … Read More
