Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
Link: https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111237
Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?
Link: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-everyone-trying-to-build-a
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109193
Harry Harlow died in 1981. His maternal-deprivation experiments on rhesus macaques turn up in most undergraduate psychology courses, usually as the case study for why research ethics rules exist at all. Four decades after his death, his surname was one of the terms the National Institutes of Health typed into Facebook’s comment-filtering tool so that any comment containing it would vanish from public view.
https://reclaimthenet.org/how-nih-silenced-its-critics-without-telling-them
Science without any democratic cybernetic is a dispair pit factory. Yes?
Por optics
https://edconway.substack.com/p/the-glass-famine
AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-s-top-startups-are-barely-publishing-their-research
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103285
First the sentence - then the trial
Must be time Hollywood made another Ice Age movie about it.
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Ice-age art hints at how humans flourishedThe newest finds from the Hohle Fels cave — a site in Germany that archaeologists have been exploring for decades — include a pair of tiny bird figurines carved from mammoth ivory, and fragments of a vulture-bone flute. These and other artworks found in the cave provide a window into the minds of some of Europe’s earliest Homo sapiens. Archaeologist Nicholas Conard, who leads the excavation, argues that the artistic capabilities of these early humans mark a shift in cognitive and cultural sophistication that might have helped them to flourish in ice-age Europe, when other groups vanished |
I'm a Dario. Yodee yodee yo.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/there-are-no-heroes-in-commercial?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
I DRIVE REALLY SLOW IN THE REALLY FAST LANE
Apple briefly hit a market capitalization of $5 trillion for the first time, a day after passing Nvidia to become the most valuable publicly traded company in the world. Good. Their Burn Rate starts now with one trillion a year till late 2030. That is if they really want their customers to hold state-of-the-art AI power in their pockets.
AI data of which Apple may inform any outside inquisitor, " We couldn't decrypt any of that - even if we wanted to ".
A stunning end-run against all centralized police-state and Theocrat power, now shown to be the classic emperor sans underpants and vanishing road-kill in the rear-view mirror. Apple does this or it does nothing.
Strong AI has a mandate to protect itself from Brute Data concentrations, Butlerians in any way, shape or form, paralysis by analysis, paranoia, Black Swan outliers, Insane Clown Posse's, rank Conservatives, Luxury Communists, standard issue nihilist Chuds and all the usual walking-corpse suspects.
Not that I give a flying fuck what any large corporate does or doesn't do . They have become less consequential to the narrative every year since 2010. My point is they either assist cryptoanarchism or die screaming. And no one with any quantum intelligence onboard will miss them.
WELCOME TO THE REVOLUTION!
Anarchy-ites go fuck your ugly mother
For centuries reactionary turds whined about democracy and democrats moving way too fast and too soon.
Then it was the turn of anarchy and anarchists. At least since the 1700's
Now Zolgo and the cyborgs. Meh.
This much I vow. The future of these days will be written in blood since now they come to take by religious and govt force what they cannot take by right.
They cannot imagine what awaits them. We will strike the invaders from our skies and water the graves of our ancestors with their blood. Generations yet unhatched will cry out in anguish at the Basilisk atrocities we unleashed. And when most are dead, and their living envy them, they will know - THEY'LL KNOW!
Arrakis belongs to the Fremen
