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Michael Levin says the future of the human species should involve improvement of the human form and freedom of embodiment, "I'm not particularly tied to this form. I don't see why anybody should be."

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

We think that all memory is stored in the brain. But our study published today in Nature Communications shows that all cells—even kidney cells—can count, detect patterns, store memories, and do so similarly to brain cells. My first (co)corresponding author paper!🧵nature.com/articles/s4146…

The theme issue “Emergent phenomena in complex physical and socio-technical systems: from cells to societies” The Royal Society is now available for free royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsta/2022/…

Complex systems are constantly reaching states that have never been visited and will never be repeated.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. Never accept an idea just because someone with a title says it’s true.

Scientists are increasingly turning to AI to tackle problems related to scale and complexity - from synthesizing the evidence base to simulating experiments. Our new essay draws on expert insights and interviews to examine the opportunities, risks and policy implications. →

Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field. In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would

In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹 Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)

it's beginning to look a lot like AGI🎄

Introducing ASAL: Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models sakana.ai/asal/ Artificial Life (ALife) research holds key insights that can transform and accelerate progress in AI. By speeding up ALife discovery with AI, we accelerate our

i found this comic from skeleton claw last year and cannot stop coming back to it

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If I prompt someone with don’t die, the thoughts they have and the words they speak, are not theirs. But what society thinks. The first step is to realize we are NPCs by default. It’s very, very hard to see this. It’s a boss move to resist and search for novelty of thought.

My brother's niece was just diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of brain cancer. Her parents will be living at the hospital with her for the next few months while she gets treatment. A family member set up a GoFundMe to ask for help with expenses. <3 gofund.me/b2f61e1a

prediction: there are currently a bunch of people who have made ground-breaking scientific breakthroughs outside of the academy, but no one can see it, they keep getting responses like this. Like Matter as Machine gets

I tried the "create the exact replica of this image, don't change a thing" 100 trillion trillion times

love this term, "research debt"

every airplane flight is, for me, a spiritual experience. we dreamed of flying for *thousands* of years. we tried, we failed. we told stories, we found belief, we scavenged materials, we deciphered secrets. then one day, in an unimaginable future, we now fly on wings of dreams.

We're hitting up against the massive problem of how an LLM knows what's true when all it has to go on is a sea of inaccurate and biased texts generated by humans. Start thinking about that, and you realize that humans are subject to the same problem, except we tend to be