Jacob Lydom @JacobLydom

The constant decel messaging in Europe is insufferable as an adult, but its effect on kids is worse. As a parent, it's your obligation to counterprogram this nonsense. Show them robots, rockets, and wonders of AI. Show them cathedrals and moon landings. Instill hope in progress.

The holy grail for robotics is being able to generalize: doing work in unseen places We rented 30 homes in the Bay Area and are doing tasks without any new training

For 20+ years @ShaneLegg and I've discussed AGI’s potential impact on the economy, science & society. With the DeepMind Institute, we're expanding interdisciplinary research on key questions for the AI era. We hope it spurs the discussions needed to get the next steps right: deepmind.google/institute

This captures the mentality of these arrogant self-appointed doomers perfectly! The most dangerous people are often those who become absolutely convinced that they alone have correctly identified the catastrophe everyone else is too ignorant, selfish, or reckless to see. Once you believe you are saving humanity, almost any form of coercion can be redescribed as responsibility. Slowing scientific progress becomes “prudence.” Concentrating power becomes “safety.” Censorship becomes “risk reduction.” Preventing billions of people from accessing transformative technology becomes an unfortunate but necessary sacrifice for some hypothetical future population. That is the intellectual pathology I reject! These self-appointed guardians obsess over speculative existential risks while systematically discounting the enormous, measurable cost of technological stagnation. Every year of delayed biomedical progress means more cancer, neurodegeneration, cardiovascular disease, infectious disease, disability, and aging. Those deaths are real. Those lives are happening now. Yet somehow the precautionary principle is applied almost entirely in one direction: What if advanced intelligence causes catastrophe? Fine. Ask that question. But intellectual seriousness requires asking the inverse question with equal force: What if delaying advanced intelligence causes catastrophe? What if the technology being restrained is precisely the technology capable of curing disease, extending healthy life, accelerating science, solving energy and material constraints, and giving humanity tools powerful enough to address risks that unaided human intelligence cannot solve? There is no morally neutral choice here. Slowing progress has consequences too. What makes this ideology especially dangerous is the combination of extreme uncertainty with extreme confidence. A small group constructs elaborate models of distant hypothetical futures, assigns probabilities to events nobody can reliably predict, declares itself uniquely qualified to interpret those probabilities, and then concludes that it should have extraordinary influence over what the rest of civilization is permitted to build. That is not humility. It is epistemic arrogance wearing the costume of humility. And history should make us deeply suspicious whenever frightened elites tell society that extraordinary restrictions are justified because their models predict disaster. Fear is one of the oldest mechanisms by which temporary emergency powers become institutional habits. I reject the idea that a priesthood of professional catastrophists should decide humanity’s technological future. I want civilization to move forward: aggressively, intelligently, experimentally, with safeguards proportional to evidence and with enormous ambition. Disease is real. Aging is real. Suffering is real. Human cognitive limitations are real. Advanced intelligence may be the most powerful instrument we have ever created for overcoming all four. So yes, study the risks. Engineer safer systems. Build technical defenses. Test everything ruthlessly. But I will oppose anyone who tries to turn uncertainty about the future into a mandate for controlling the future. And I hope we reach superintelligence soon enough that humanity can finally graduate from being governed by fear, scarcity, disease, aging and the people who mistake their own anxiety for wisdom.

Doug TenNapel @DougTenNapel

4 weeks ago

We will die from global cooling in 10 years. We will die from global warming in 10 years. We will die from a virus in 10 years. We will die from overcrowding in 10 years. We will die from intolerance in 10 years. We will die from Ai in 10 years. The answer to all of these is to

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After 25 years of brave & brilliant work by hundreds of scientists in my lab to understand then safely reverse aging for the first time, it was moving to witness the first human dose being delivered 🥹 nature.com/articles/d4158…

The most accurate futurist in world history is Ray Kurzweil. Amazing prescience.

Danmark er nu på det laveste antal nystartede enkeltmandsvirksomheder siden 1999. Vi er ved at gå i stå og så laver millionærskat. Det skal nok hjælpe.

Så begynder de første allerede at forberede deres farvel til Danmark. Lev Mette siger venstrefløjen. Dumt at skyde os selv i foden for at løse et ikke-problem, siger LA. finans.dk/erhverv/ECE190…

The flag of technocapitalism. Inspiring. And completely different from the zero-sum hammer and sickle. Signifies transcendence, escape velocity, exponential growth, and relentless progress.

Max Hodak @maxhodak_

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Skønt at Ribe Domkirke får del i dette års puljemidler til kirkeistandsættelse! Tak til @MortenDahlin. Ribe Domkirke er ikke kun en kirke. Den er et levende stykke Danmarkshistorie. Det skal vi værne om.

@AlexVanopslagh Kæmpestort tillykke til jer allesammen 🇩🇰

@beffjezos @thugged_atlas So basically Ray Kurzweil

I’m absolutely blown away by @OpenAI’s new o3 model! I’ve had early access and haven’t put it down for days. This release feels like the milestone we experienced with o1-preview and o1-pro, but smarter and more reliable in every way, it truly cranks everything up to eleven! In fact, I feel o3’s intelligence is at or near genius level! It never hallucinates, and its new agent-style tools effortlessly handle multi-step tasks with incredible reasoning and precision, generating complex incredibly insightful and based scientific hypotheses on demand! When I throw challenging clinical or medical questions at o3, its responses sound like they’re coming directly from a top subspecialist physicians: precise, thorough, confidently evidence-based, and remarkably professional, exactly what you’d expect from a genuine expert on the topic. I feel it is also clearly superior to the current SOTA model Gemini 2.5-pro in these aspects, and more intelligent. Without reservation, I confidently claim this is a total game-changer for science, medicine, and likely many other fields! Kudos to the entire amazing team at OpenAI, there’s no doubt this advance will continue pushing humanity forward and significantly improve our lives! 👏👏👏

The future is so bright, you might need to take your shades OFF for this one. De-extinction is now a reality. Meet Khaleesi—a dire wolf pup, reborn on January 31, 2025, more than 10,000 years after her species vanished. It's not #JurassicPark but this moment signals the start of a new era in biodiversity and ecological restoration. The dire wolf is back, and for Colossal, this is only the beginning.

SOUND ON. You’re hearing the first howl of a dire wolf in over 10,000 years. Meet Romulus and Remus—the world’s first de-extinct animals, born on October 1, 2024. The dire wolf has been extinct for over 10,000 years. These two wolves were brought back from extinction using genetic edits derived from a complete dire wolf genome, meticulously reconstructed by Colossal from ancient DNA found in fossils dating back 11,500 and 72,000 years. This moment marks not only a milestone for us as a company but also a leap forward for science, conservation, and humanity. From the beginning, our goal has been clear: “To revolutionize history and be the first company to use CRISPR technology successfully in the de-extinction of previously lost species.” By achieving this, we continue to push forward our broader mission on—accepting humanity’s duty to restore Earth to a healthier state. But this isn’t just our moment—it’s one for science, our planet, and humankind. All of which we love and are passionate about. Now, close your eyes and listen to that howl once more. Think about what this means for all of us.

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Det er glimrende nyt for det tekniske erhvervsliv, at erhvervsminister @mfMorten i dag melder så klart ud, at de omfattende rapporteringskrav i CSRD kraftigt skal reduceres. For den grønne omstilling og EU’s konkurrenceevne skal accelereres #dkpol

Erhvervsministeriet @Erhvervs_min

2 years ago

På en lang række områder spænder EU-krav ben for grøn omstilling. Det koster grønne investeringer og fremgang. Det er budskabet fra erhvervsminister Morten Bødskov, når han i dag mødes med sine ministerkolleger i Bruxelles. em.dk/aktuelt/nyhede…

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Det er ikke i orden at regningen for Odsherreds Forsynings forfejlede fjernvarmeudrulning tørres af på borgerne - Hvis borgerne vil opsige deres aftale, vil de blive opkrævet en udtrædelsesgodtgørelse af en størrelse, der reelt stavnsbinder borgerne #dkbiz sn.dk/art6254963/sja…

I en tiltagende mere usikker verden er der behov for, at 🇪🇺 bliver langt mere uafhængig i sin energiproduktion samt at omkostningerne reduceres. Hastigheden i udbygningen af VE-projekter er vigtig ⁦⁦@DanJoergensen⁩ i dagens ⁦@borsendk⁩ borsen.dk/nyheder/perspe…

@thugged_atlas Ex Machina Blade Runner 2049

@kimmonismus On top of that the French government has also announced that it’ll invest €109b in AI, which in per capita terms is roughly equivalent to the Stargate project. It is becoming increasingly evident that AI is rapidly turning out to be the most geopolitically defining technology.