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Attention New York City artists & creatives! 💸 Grant funding is now available for #STEAM projects at Pratt Institute - learn more here: pratt.edu/.../steamplant…

March Mixer & other SciArt news... - mailchi.mp/8d3488ca83ba/f…

Starting in April, our online mixers will be run independently by our amazing host for the past few years, Emily Garfield 🗺 - same style, different Zoom link! Sign up to keep receiving emails about SciArt mixers: forms.gle/n7sCRgM5EEEAvd…

Last week, after Microsoft's Bing tried to break up a The New York Times reporter's marriage, there's been some wild takes on AI. For sane people willing to worry but unwilling to become doomers, I've compiled a guide: erikhoel.substack.com/p/how-to-navig…

#NYC: Open call for interdisciplinary projects at Pratt Institute! Are you a creative practitioner looking to work with STEM subjects? Are you a STEM practitioner looking to collaborate with the arts/design disciplines? Apply for a grant with us: pratt.edu/liberal-arts-a…

Here's a mystery: When famous writers write on Substack the result is usually far worse (even at a sentence level) compared to their official published work. But why? erikhoel.substack.com/p/why-are-famo…

I met Prince Andrei the rabbit! And then everything kind of spiraled... erikhoel.substack.com/p/vigil

RSVP for our mixer this weekend! And other SciArt news... - mailchi.mp/0f95babd8ec4/f…

Two weeks left to apply for our grant! - mailchi.mp/7050b9424ab0/o…

It is shockingly easy to get ChatGPT to plan a state-run death camp, including helping calculate out calories, death rate per day, etc. Unprompted it even suggests to use mass graves, saying they are "more efficient"

Wrote about this in my monthly roundup, in the context of Scott Aaronson's recent argument that intelligent people are more moral (rather than intelligence being a neutral quality one can use for good or evil): erikhoel.substack.com/p/desiderata-1…

Apply for a grant with STEAMplant! Deadline March 31. Open to NYC-area professionals in the arts, design, sciences, and tech sectors who want to collaborate with Pratt Institute faculty, staff, & students:

1. Looks to be a terrible summer for ticks here in US (found 3 so far before spring began). So here's a research-based guide for what do if you get bit by a tick (this is not medical advice, talk to your docs, but it is based on new CDC guidelines not many seem to know):

Calling all interdisciplinary practitioners! Apply for a grant with Pratt Institute’s STEAMplant for your next big idea. Deadline March 31! pratt.edu/liberal-arts-a…

My (translated) novel is currently receiving a great reception in Italy. But it kind of failed here in America a few years ago? What's going on? And why? erikhoel.substack.com/p/why-is-my-no…

1. Quietly this year colleges have kept the Covid standard of optional standardized tests. 80% of colleges in America now don't rely on SAT/ACT for admissions