Philip van Nedervelde
@philipvn.bsky.social
Futurist • Infovore • OG VR engineer & veteran (33 yrs.) VR experience designer • Seeker • Polyglot • Serial tech & social entrepreneur
💔 DAMIEN BRODERICK PASSED 💔 — It is with a heavy heart that I share the news of Damien Broderick's passing today. Damien was a visionary author, scholar, and thinker. Damien's work profoundly shaped the landscape of science fiction, transhumanism, and futurist thought.
Damien Broderick - Wikipedia
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April 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
💔 DAMIEN BRODERICK PASSED 💔 — It is with a heavy heart that I share the news of Damien Broderick's passing today. Damien was a visionary author, scholar, and thinker. Damien's work profoundly shaped the landscape of science fiction, transhumanism, and futurist thought.
🥰 20 YEARS MARRIED! 🥰 — My dearest darling Helen & I got married 20 years ago, and we’ve been an almost literally inseparable couple for over 24 years, and counting!
Pray join us in celebrating each other and our happy union!
Pray join us in celebrating each other and our happy union!
March 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🥰 20 YEARS MARRIED! 🥰 — My dearest darling Helen & I got married 20 years ago, and we’ve been an almost literally inseparable couple for over 24 years, and counting!
Pray join us in celebrating each other and our happy union!
Pray join us in celebrating each other and our happy union!
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The most recent issue of Free Astronomy Magazine (November-December 2024) is available for your reading and downloading pleasure in English, Italian, Spanish, French, and Arabic at www.astropublishing.com (and light (no pun intended) commentary at www.somewhereville.com).
November 2, 2024 at 12:46 PM
The most recent issue of Free Astronomy Magazine (November-December 2024) is available for your reading and downloading pleasure in English, Italian, Spanish, French, and Arabic at www.astropublishing.com (and light (no pun intended) commentary at www.somewhereville.com).
Reposted by Philip van Nedervelde
Reposted by Philip van Nedervelde
Submarines don't swim, and LLMs don't model the world like humans do. Expect unintuitive failure modes out of AI as a result. As AI becomes harder to avoid, it's unfortunately on us to be actively skeptical. news.mit.edu/2024/generat...
Despite its impressive output, generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the world
Large language models can achieve incredible performance on some tasks without having internalized a coherent model of the world or the rules that govern it, MIT researchers find. This means these mod...
news.mit.edu
November 12, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Submarines don't swim, and LLMs don't model the world like humans do. Expect unintuitive failure modes out of AI as a result. As AI becomes harder to avoid, it's unfortunately on us to be actively skeptical. news.mit.edu/2024/generat...
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Because nowadays, lots of people need neurons
news.mit.edu/2024/when-mu...
news.mit.edu/2024/when-mu...
When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
Exercise can have benefits at the level of neurons, through chemical and mechanical effects, MIT researchers find. The discovery could inform exercise-related therapies for repairing damaged and deter...
news.mit.edu
November 12, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Because nowadays, lots of people need neurons
news.mit.edu/2024/when-mu...
news.mit.edu/2024/when-mu...
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Why is it so difficult for people to understand the government has no place in deciding what a woman can and can not do with her body?
barack obama is sitting in a chair making a funny face with his hands in the air .
ALT: barack obama is sitting in a chair making a funny face with his hands in the air .
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Why is it so difficult for people to understand the government has no place in deciding what a woman can and can not do with her body?
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"I don't believe that all people are dumb. I believe that some folks are unaware or willfully or unwillingly ignorant and that's just plain stupid." ~ Bruce Maiman
www.huffpost.com/.../ignoranc....
www.huffpost.com/.../ignoranc....
November 13, 2024 at 3:26 AM
"I don't believe that all people are dumb. I believe that some folks are unaware or willfully or unwillingly ignorant and that's just plain stupid." ~ Bruce Maiman
www.huffpost.com/.../ignoranc....
www.huffpost.com/.../ignoranc....
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We all face the world differently, each with our own strengths.
November 13, 2024 at 5:05 AM
We all face the world differently, each with our own strengths.
Absolute certainties are absolutely verboten.
November 12, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Absolute certainties are absolutely verboten.