Concept of smart glasses capable of supporting AIXR.
I focus AI's merge with XR: AIXR. This is the next technological wave. With AIXR, we are going to have adaptive, intelligent realities that learn and evolve with us. The end of static digital worlds and beginning of something truly dynamic. scholar.google.com/citations?&u... #AIXR #AI #XR
βThey smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.β
~The Great Gatsby
60-Second Science: Avoiding Outrage Fatigue in Overwhelming Times
Episode webpage: www.sciencequickly.com
Media file: traffic.megaphone.fm/SAM791587186...
Ooo this is a good one βΊοΈ
In my media literacy exercises for my students, I stress a similar point: in the modern media ecosystem, itβs extremely unlikely that only one media outlet would cover a major story. Especially if itβs not a major one with investigative resources that youβve heard of.
In terms of how empires fall stories turning the whole thing over to a ketamine addled tech baron and a band of incel teens is probably one of the most pathetic options
#booksky #wordoftheday
Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.
One tiny, private act of resistance: reading long, old books. Feels subversive to a) pay sustained attention to b) something that can't be monetized.
I'm struck by the near-total failure of leadership across civil society, in a country that fetishizes the concept. Whole sections of leadership books at every bookstore. Named, endowed "leadership" institutes and curricula across higher ed. Awards and special recognition for "leaders." AND YET
streaks of rapid unscheduled disassembly in the sky
βThey were careless people, Tom and Daisyβthey smashed up things and . . . then retreated back into their money . . . and let other people clean up the mess they had made.β
Can someone explain why TikTok is a bigger national security concern than a social media platform run by a South African technofeudal oligarch actively interfering in our elections and sabotaging our national interests here and abroad?
yβall remember when adorno said that intolerance of ambiguity is indicative of an authoritarian mindset?
i think about that a *lot.*
If your bookshelf doesn't have a cobweb-covered book that opens a hidden door when pulled, then what's the point of anything really?
While weβre banning booksβ¦
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
I stand by this.
Not sure of the original source of this, but the depiction with the final domino set to crush the pusher is devastatingly accurate.
Frequent observation can inhibit the evolution of a quantum system, mirrors the arrow paradox (an arrow in flight appears motionless at any single instant), leading to the conclusion that motion is an illusion. For a little bit more explanation: youtu.be/yEMV-GJ8aqg
The quantum Zeno effect discussed here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/quan... By the way, I am a sunni Muslim, so, slightly biased towards continuous creation by an omnipotent being, but the details are important of course βΊοΈ
And: Islamic thinkers like Al-Ghazali argue infinite regress is illogical because an endless chain of causes would prevent the present from existing. Aristotleβs Unmoved Mover and Aquinasβ First Cause also assert a necessary starting point to halt the chain and explain existence.
Or: The cosmos, with its delicate balance, suggests complexity beyond absolute power or will. If 'P,' self-organization challenges simplicity. If 'G,' infinite regress arises. If 'S,' the simulation needs an origin. Each scenario highlights the tension between necessity and contingency in creation.
G. No system can exist without the absolute knowledge, power, and will of its creator. Yet, nature lacks these absolutes. Despite this, the cosmos is filled with systems of astonishing complexity, maintained in a delicate and remarkable balance.
#philsci #metasci
And fear not, friends, as more will be coming to Google Search in 2025. π¬
"We judge the poker player for gambling; we respect the stockbroker for doing the same thing with far less information." - @mkonnikova.bsky.social
Nailed it.
There is a metaphor here somewhere
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