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En dat had niemand vooraf kunnen bedenken?

AI automation is bad for people who see their work as a terminal value (it’s good that I do the thing I do) but good for people who see work as instrumental to building and creating (it’s good that I can make this thing happen). Many people will have to reconsider their identity

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How we "guessed" the Pope using network science: inside the cardinal network. A study by me, Beppe Soda and Alessandro Iorio. Article: unibocconi.it/en/news/networ… Università Bocconi

Meanwhile in Europe: the Impossible Burger is still 100% illegal. Thank you, anti-GMO people, for protecting us from sustainable, humane and delicious plant-based burgers. 🙃

It is trivial to explain why a LLM can never ever be conscious or intelligent. Utterly trivial. It goes like this - LLMs have zero causal power. Zero agency. Zero internal monologue. Zero abstracting ability. Zero understanding of the world. They are tools for conscious beings.

Claude 4 explains how to make a sarin chemical weapon. This is why industry "voluntary commitments" are a joke and legally binding safety standards are needed. And no, googling won't easily find 15 pages of detailed instructions, describing all key steps in the manufacturing

In 1965, the mathematical physicist Roger Penrose proved that, given two simple assumptions, space-time must end at points called singularities. The paper has been called “the most important paper in general relativity” since Einstein’s. quantamagazine.org/singularities-…

“Harvard moet zich weer ten dienste stellen van kennis, niet van sociale rechtvaardigheid,” schrijft Steven Pinker bij ons vandaag. De strijd van Trump tegen Harvard gaat veel te ver. Maar er gaat wel het nodige mis, vindt hij. Hij hekelt het gebrek aan diversiteit van politieke

Another way of understanding the meaning crisis: People are experiencing cultural domicide We’re sheltered—but not rooted Common responses are nihilism (there is no home) or retreating to find home only inside ourselves But true meaning comes through belonging: Mutual shaping

Public debt levels are both higher than before the pandemic and rising faster in economies that account for 80% of global gross domestic product. See our Chart of the Week blog for more on how to foster resilience. imf.org/en/Blogs/Artic…

'Wilders' aanhangers zullen blijven smullen van zijn jennerige hoon, zijn agressieve verongelijktheid, zijn twittervisioenen van bedreiging en ondergang van ons mooie landje. Dat is fijn voor hen, want daar zullen ze het voortaan mee moeten doen.' nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/06…

Lieve mensen, bedankt voor alles. Met de zorg komt het wel goed ❤️

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“Information itself might be a vital parameter of the cosmos, similar to mass, charge, and energy.” wired.com/story/why-ever…

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