Most politicians totally misunderstand the trouble that artificial intelligence is going to bring. This isn’t a race for profit, it’s a race for power. And that power will be in the hands of a few very rich people. Does that sound like a good future?

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"... we need better tests for AI sentience... we need more research into animal cognition and behaviour, to uncover as many independently evolved instances of sentience as we possibly can."

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Check out this incredible video from 1941 that details the physics of visual perception using the mechanics of the eyeball from Karl Kurt Bosse

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This Map Lets You Plug in Your Address to See How It’s Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

Remember the crisis in cosmology? It just got worse.

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Interesting read on trauma by Dr. Peter Levine.

By resetting our default mode network, 🍄 show great potential as a tool for healing trauma.

Have you read “Waking the Tiger”? 📖

#mentalhealth #trauma

We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you.

All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋

If you’re one of the millions of users who are new to Bluesky, you may find this blog useful. 🦋

Cool paper: over 30 years, researchers tracked people in four urban public spaces.

Now they walk faster, don’t linger, and are more likely to be alone compared to 1980.

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