Startups that want to move fast and have a lasting impact on the market, should be aware that for the price of working with an advertising agency or business consultancy, one can hire a team of skilled blackhat hackers and a private military company.
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Die Bombe: If you have to make a movie about the origins of the atomic bomb, at least make it about people that mattered, like Paul Rosbaud, Otto Hahn, Hans Kammler & the German intelligentsia milleux of the time.
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Macaque monkeys and humans sample temporal regularities in the acoustic environment
“The perception, if not the enjoyment, of musical cadences and of rhythm is probably common to all animals and no doubt depends on the common physiological nature of their nervous system” – Charles Darwin
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Paradoxically, extremely stupid things are overwhelmingly done by extremely intelligent people throughout history.
The study of stupidity is a unexplored territory. It isn't merely the antithesis of intelligence, but a standalone phenomenon that permeates all strata of society, propelling evolution in peculiar ways. In our pursuit of AI, it's high time we also explore Artificial Stupidity.
Related: The Sixth Law of Stupidity: A Biophysical Interpretation of Carlo Cipolla’s Stupidity Laws
Related: Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity
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The 900 year-old Oak of Trollskogen on Öland
The trunk of a 5,000 year old yew in Switzerland
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A tomato plant is dramatically more sophisticated than any AI system:
- It can self-replicate & evolve
- It perfectly fits into the ecosystem
- It looks, smells & tastes fantastic
There are more than 10,000 varieties of Solanum lycopersicum grown and consumed around the world. Gardeners through the centuries have developed tomatoes for their own use, selecting for preferred size, taste, texture and adapted to their own microclimates.
