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One after another, the greatest figures in physics seemed to develop an unexpected late-career interest in the mystery of life itself, even taking abrupt shifts toward the formal study of biology.

Fei-Fei Li • The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

Biology, Tech & Ethics

Snippets and Thought Pieces Curated for Come To Mind Newsletter, Issue #8

Christina Fedor • 3 cards

The arc of his life helped to create a very particular California sensibility, a state of mind that has gone on to spread throughout the entire world.

John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

Although science may proceed through the experimental pluck of one scientist or another, it is ultimately a collaborative endeavor. Similarly, speculative fiction is read by the singular reader but experienced by a fanbase and sometimes a whole culture (or cultures).

Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility

The Lucifer Principle contends that evil is woven into our most basic biological fabric.

Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History

I'm not anti-AI. I'm pro-Creators.

Andy Allen

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Only the best researchers in a field actually make progress, and the best researchers are already in a field, and probably couldn’t be kept out of the field with barbed wire and attack dogs. If you expand a field, you will get a bunch of merely competent careerists who treat it as a 9-to-5 job. A field of 5 truly inspired geniuses and 5 competent c... See more

Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex) • Is Science Slowing Down?

THE COMING WAVE: An emerging cluster of related technologies centered on AI and synthetic biology whose transformative applications will both empower humankind and present unprecedented risks.

Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

More information was generated in 2001 than in all the previous existence of our species on earth. In fact, 2001 doubled the previous total. And 2002 doubled the amount present in 2001, adding around 23 “exabytes” of new information—roughly the equivalent of 140,000 Library of Congress collections.