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Bookmark Could you pass 'Humanity’s Last Exam'? Probably not, but neither can AI…
Did you know some of the smartest people on the planet create benchmarks to test AI’s capabilities at replicating human intelligence? Well, scarily enough most AI benchmarks are easily completed by…

May 12 2025, 4:40am | Comments
Bookmark I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run…
I don't think Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is a bad guy, or that he has nefarious plans for Nvidia, but the most consequential villains in history are rarely evil. They just…

June 13 2024, 6:57pm | Comments
Bookmark Scientific discovery casts doubt on our understanding of human evolution | The…
Scientists are planning to solve one of the world’s greatest archaeological mysteries.

August 19 2023, 9:52am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Climate Justice in the Anthropocene: An Introductory Reading List -…
As the alarm bells have made it urgently clear—humanity has breached planetary boundaries—causing anthropogenic climate change and environmental disaster across the world.

August 3 2023, 11:34am | Comments
Bookmark On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer…
In the 1980s, there was no better place than Bulgaria for virus lovers. The socialist country – plagued by hyperinflation, crumbling infrastructure, food and petrol rationing, daily blackouts and packs of…

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark Milk Is an Evolutionary Marvel - The Atlantic
No one can define it, much less fully replicate it. If an alien life form landed on Earth tomorrow and called up some of the planet’s foremost experts on lactation, it…

July 4 2023, 9:51pm | Comments
Bookmark The expanding orbit of Seattle science fiction writer Octavia Butler
Knowing that an author who wrote unsparingly about humanity’s capacity for violence and oppression dwelled amid such picturesque Pacific Northwest ordinariness is comforting. This quiet, unremarkable place would suit a diligent…

December 12 2022, 1:54am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Black Swan events disrupting or delaying (pop) cultural releases I am looking for examples of (pop) cultural events/releases that were delayed or cancelled because an unforeseeable event eerily echoed their content in some way. For instance, I just discovered that Kylie Minogue's 6th album 'Impossible Princess' was delayed by almost a year…

October 17 2022, 9:51am | Comments
Bookmark No music on Mars: Sound is different on the red planet -…
Your mind’s eye can already paint a picture of what Mars looks like. You will probably conjure up the image of a barren landscape of scattered boulders and pebbles under a…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark No music on Mars: Sound is different on the red planet -…
Your mind’s eye can already paint a picture of what Mars looks like. You will probably conjure up the image of a barren landscape of scattered boulders and pebbles under a…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
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April 6 2022, 6:44am | Comments
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March 6 2022, 10:00am | Comments
Bookmark If everyone lived in an 'ecovillage', the Earth would still be in…
We are used to hearing that if everyone lived in the same way as North Americans or Australians, we would need four or five planet Earths to sustain us.

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark A potential escape from Roko’s basilisk (Interconnected)
Earth’s Black Box will record every step we take towards this catastrophe. Hundreds of data sets, measurements and interactions relating to the health of our planet will be continuously collected and…

January 10 2022, 3:51pm | Comments
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November 26 2021, 2:06am | Comments
Bookmark Mining the Planet to Death: The Dirty Truth About Clean Technologies -…
The poor South is being exploited so that the rich North can transition to environmental sustainability. Entire swaths of land are being destroyed to secure the resources needed to produce wind…

November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments
Bookmark The Mystery of Why Our Ancestors Left Africa - The Atlantic
On a searing-hot summer day at ‘Ubeidiya, an ancient site in northern Israel, an undulating expanse of dry grasses and thistles stretches into the distance. Far on the horizon, the mountains…

November 2 2021, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Viruses may exist ‘elsewhere in the universe’, warns scientist | Infectious diseases…
The Covid pandemic has already turned life as we know it upside down – and no doubt prompted some people to want to leave the planet. Now a leading scientist has…

September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark IPCC 2021 report: How bad will climate change get? - Vox
These five climate scenarios show us what the future of the planet could look like. How bad could climate change get?

September 14 2021, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark Alien Dreams: The Surprisingly Long History of Speculation About Extraterrestrials | The…
The idea that other worlds might be home to alien beings has been part of our thought for as long as we have been looking skyward. To feel small, all we…

August 17 2021, 7:51am | Comments
Bookmark Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power. |…
We need to acknowledge both the politics and the physical impact that AI has on the planet, says scholar Kate Crawford in her new book. At the turn of the 20th…

May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark We’re already colonizing Mars.
Sometime in April, the Ingenuity helicopter will take to the Martian air, making it, in NASA’s words, “the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.” Or,…

April 1 2021, 4:55am | Comments
Bookmark Humans Can't Contain Superintelligent Machines | Super AI
In a new study, researchers from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Human Development say they’ve shown that an artificial intelligence in the category known as “superintelligent” would be impossible for humans…

March 31 2021, 7:56am | Comments
Bookmark The other humans: The emerging story of the mysterious Denisovans | New…
The existence of the Denisovans was discovered just a decade ago through DNA alone. Now we're starting to uncover fossils and artefacts revealing what these early humans were like TODAY, there…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Terraforming the Earth, Redesigning the World | CCCB LAB
The term terraforming refers to the transformation of the ecosystems of other planets or satellites to enable them to support Earth-like life.

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark Why Are Octopuses So Smart? - The Atlantic
A small shark spots its prey—a meaty, seemingly defenseless octopus. The shark ambushes, and then, in one of the most astonishing sequences in the series Blue Planet II, the octopus escapes.…

October 8 2020, 11:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Revolutionary archaeology reveals the deepest possible Anthropocene | Aeon Essays
Humanity’s transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture is one of the most important developments in human and Earth history. Human societies, plant and animal populations, the makeup of the atmosphere,…

October 2 2020, 6:13am | Comments
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September 7 2020, 8:00am | Comments
Podcast Cache Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: "Wildcat The Totality" - Fred Moten And Stefano…
This is part one of a two-part conversation with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney. Fred Moten is the author of In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, multiple volumes of poetry, and most recently the…

July 29 2020, 1:03am | Comments
Bookmark ‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists –…
Australia’s top climate scientist says “we are already deep into the trajectory towards collapse” of civilisation, which may now be inevitable because 9 of the 15 known global climate tipping points…

June 30 2020, 7:13pm | Comments
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