PHOTOS OF RANDOM STRANGERS IN NYC AND THEIR LIFE STORIES. Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton St. Martin’s Press 2013, 304 ...

Lately I’ve been asking myself: what might artificial intelligence be good for besides answering questions and writing code? My answer is the latent spaces within AIs themselves will become a new ...

Wow! Unexpected results from Anthropic’s experiments in exposing the inner thoughts of Claude. They call its unconscious a J-space. The short video they made is good place to start. A global workspace ...

The lovelorn nostalgia and mystical voyeurism of an extraordinary correspondence return in the latest edition of the Griffin ...

Get The Nature of the Physical World. The Nature of the Physical World was written by the astrophysicist who confirmed Einstein’s relativity. It explores how modern physics has ...

Marco Polo app. So much fun to share good morning videos with my granddaughter far away. No intrusive ads, no bs, feels ...

On his 68th birthday, Kevin Kelly began to write down for his young adult children some things he had learned about life that he wished he had known earlier. To his surprise, Kelly had more to say ...

The best of these are still valid and useful, so we’re trying out something new — Retro Recomendo. Once every 6 weeks, we’ll send out a throwback issue of evergreen recommendations focused on one ...

Whenever I overhear a complaint of someone’s long time-wasting commute I want to whisper into their ear, “It doesn’t have to be that way. You can read books while you drive! You won’t want to stop.” ...

“The new American dream, for some of its citizens, is to no longer live there.” Good article with lots of news and stats. Record rate of Americans leaving US for various reasons. Americans Are Leaving ...

Even the experts inventing AI don’t know what will happen next. Is artificial general intelligence even possible? Can scaling continue? Will we need massive compute centers to make AI, or can we do it ...

A work crane at the Clock site in western Texas. There is a Clock ringing deep inside a mountain. It is a huge Clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Every once in a while ...