#Technological

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

A brief appreciation of @NegarestaniReza's _Intelligence and Spirit_ from @urbanomicdotcom, and in particular, the final chapter on the philosophy of intelligence.https://amzn.to/3elGWI7 I&S gets something really right, I think, which i

Ketan Joshi

KetanJ0

Okay. So the Moore / Gibbs #PlanetoftheHumans has been temporarily taken off Youtube because..........copyright infringement. There are a few very significant things buried in this story, so let's excavate them.

Ray

gammaraybeam

Inside the ufo community, there is the recurring feeling of an imminent event called "disclosure", which consists in the official acknowledgement from governmental institutions and mainstream science of the presence

Mori

moritheil

Correct. And all of this goes back to how people were called cranks for correctly foretelling in the 1910s that ice cream parlors would be the decay and ruin of

Mike Bechthold

mike_bechthold

“Bloody April” and the RFC...A thread!#OTD in 1917 the Battles of #Vimy and Arras began.The Battle of Arras is considered the nadir of the Royal Flying Corps’ fortunes in the

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/OK, just for fun, let's take this tweet seriously, and think of a list of ways that the world has progressed since the 1970s. 2/The first category he names is

commie lee jones

commieleejones

On the military history of postwar ed-techDouglas Noble’s The Classroom Arsenal (1991) documents & interprets the influence of military research and development on the direction of postwar US educational technology

David Garcia

dgarcia_eu

Are people willing to use contact tracing mobile phone apps for #COVID19 ? As a personal weekend project, I spent some money I got back from a canceled AirBnB booking

Engloid Stan 🏳️‍🌈 BLACK LIVES MATTER

Mokonamadoki1

This tweet right here is an incredibly bad take, and I think as an Android user that has used an iPhone as well, it's important to understand why. First I

Tim Carney

TPCarney

I'm sorry, this paper by Paola Giuliano and Romain Wazciarg has me too damn excited. Their finding is, in essence, the central political finding of Alienated America. http://papers.nber.org/tmp/59388-w27651.pdf (So yes,

Colin MacKay

coljmackay

Pg10 sick kids ‘Smaller class sizes should be a priority strategy as it will aid in physical distancing and reduce potential spread from any index cases.’ Think Ford/Lecce chose to

Alejandro Piad Morffis

AlejandroPiad

Today is #PhilosophyFriday !I want to talk about the ethical implications of using AI, but this is a HUGE topic. So today I'll focus on one specific issue: Will super-intelligent

paff

paffver

thread to do when you’re bored and help others to get to know you.- quote don’t reply- answer with how much you agree/ disagree with the statements ie. somwhat agree,

billbria

billbria

Been a while since I last did a franchise thread, so I thought I might buzz about THE FLY. Join me, won’t you? But do make sure to hold on

Abeba Birhane

Abebab

Preprint for our paper ‘Robot Right? Let’s Talk about Human Welfare Instead’ is up on arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05046v1. @theblub & I argue not just to deny robots ‘rights’, but to deny

Madalina Vicari

v_madalina

Now, that the fever of #Turkey's gas finding has cooled off (or not?), time for a (long) THREAD on challenges and implications #OOTT #ONGT The gas is in ULTRA-deep