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Metafilter MeFi: [as a mushroom cloud rises in the distance] Apocalypse Early Warning System In the event of an imminent nuclear apocalypse, we suspect that many people who have access to private jets will immediately take to the skies and escape city centers. This site tracks this indicator in realtime.

May 5 2026, 3:39am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: Some People Can't See Mental Images - The Consequences Are Profound Aphantasia - an interesting variant in human experience (New Yorker archive link) Nick knew that whenever Zeman talked about aphantasia he was at pains to emphasize that it was not a disorder, or even a bad thing... Some people he interviewed were unbothered—there…

November 8 2025, 2:59pm | Comments
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 Challenging The Myths of Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press
Aside from the physical heft of data centers seen from highways and the fiber optic cables crawling into homes and offices, the digital world mostly exists in our imagination. That imagination…

September 7 2024, 7:12am | Comments
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Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences. Introduction Two years ago, Sarah Shomstein…

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Bookmark DeepMind AI creates algorithms that sort data faster than those built by…
You have full access to this article via your institution. An artificial intelligence (AI) system based on Google DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language…

July 10 2023, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark How millennials’ “epic bacon” humor became cringe - Vox
Remember when “epic bacon” was the height of comedy? Thirteen years ago, a man was sitting at the Denver airport. Bored, he turned his attention to his favorite website: “I see…

July 10 2023, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark AI is the Scariest Beast Ever Created, Says Sci-Fi Writer Bruce Sterling
I've seen a lot of computer crazes in my day, but this one is sheer Mardi Gras. It's not proper to get stern and judgmental when the people are costumed and…

July 10 2023, 2:52am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Critical reviews/writing on Tears of the Kingdom So, we all love the latest Zelda game (Tears of the Kingdom - TOTK), and so do the critics. But now that we and the game journalists all have hundreds of hours of playtime under our belts, have any thoughtful, well written critical…

June 12 2023, 6:21am | Comments
Bookmark http://www.washingtonpost.com
People assume that adjusting to climate change means giving up stuff we want. But what if it means giving up things we’re well rid of?

April 18 2023, 4:53am | Comments
Bookmark For the Love of God, AI Chatbots Can’t ‘Decide’ to Do Anything
The incessant hype over AI tools like ChatGPT is inspiring lots of bad opinions from people who have no idea what they’re talking about.

April 18 2023, 4:52am | Comments
Bookmark What if climate change meant not doom — but abundance?
People assume that adjusting to climate change means giving up stuff we want. But what if it means giving up things we’re well rid of?

April 18 2023, 12:53am | Comments
Bookmark For the Love of God, AI Chatbots Can’t ‘Decide’ to Do Anything
The incessant hype over AI tools like ChatGPT is inspiring lots of bad opinions from people who have no idea what they’re talking about.

April 18 2023, 12:52am | Comments
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Bookmark The People Cheering for Humanity’s End - The Atlantic
With this declaration in The Order of Things (1966), the French philosopher Michel Foucault heralded a new way of thinking that would transform the humanities and social sciences.

December 12 2022, 6:53am | Comments
Bookmark The People Cheering for Humanity’s End - The Atlantic
With this declaration in The Order of Things (1966), the French philosopher Michel Foucault heralded a new way of thinking that would transform the humanities and social sciences.

December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: In Urbit's orbit People kept talking about a "vibe shift," but what had shifted was that all people seemed to talk about were vibes... the vibe was ambient grift, with an undercurrent of paranoia.

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Bookmark DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See | WIRED
Marcelo Rinesi remembers what it was like to watch Jurassic Park for the first time in a theater. The dinosaurs looked so convincing that they felt like the real thing, a…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See | WIRED
Marcelo Rinesi remembers what it was like to watch Jurassic Park for the first time in a theater. The dinosaurs looked so convincing that they felt like the real thing, a…

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Bookmark How I'm Decolonizing My Sci-Fi Reading | Book Riot
As bookish people, we are all mostly aware on some level that the diversity of the publishing industry doesn’t reflect the diversity of the country, much less the English-speaking world.

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark David Wallace-Wells · Ten Million a Year: Dying to Breathe · LRB…
Not all deaths are created equal. In February 2020, the world began to panic about the novel coronavirus, which killed 2714 people that month. This made the news. In the same…

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Bookmark New hypothesis argues the universe simulates itself into existence - Big Think
How real are you? What if everything you are, everything you know, all the people in your life as well as all the events were not physically there but just a…

December 3 2021, 2:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
This summer, when Fame Lady Squad launched, claiming to be the first ever female-led crypto art collective, it quickly raised $1.5 million from people who wanted to support underrepresented artists. Weeks later, it turned out, the group…

November 25 2021, 1:51am | 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 Crypto-Colonialists Use the Most Vulnerable People in the World as Guinea Pigs
Vanuatu is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, with an estimated population of just over 300,000.

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