Category: Existence
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Philosophy snapshot: Everything?
Sitting for a quick coffee... Random thoughts. (Could anything get closer to the truth?) What is everything? If not something and nothing together?
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Dark AI… Dark humans…
A study found that hiring algorithms are too opaque for us to understand if they are fair or not. (1) In other news, a scientist tried to help humans design algorithms that would never go the wrong way, doing harm rather than good, by implementing fail safes in their initial design (2) We have started…
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Reverse evolution 2.
Turtle ant soldiers scuttle to and from sporting shiny, adorably oversized heads, which they use to block the entrances of their nests -- essentially acting as living doors. Not all heads are shaped alike: some soldiers have ones that resemble manhole covers and perfectly seal tunnel entrances. Others have square heads, which they assemble into…
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Rivers. Drought. Drought. Rivers.
Researchers are using a new method to determine how resistant rivers are to drought. (1) But why search for that? Aren’t you worried… About how resistant drought is to rivers? At the end there was nothing. And this nothing was destroyed. By things which came to be. Shy people. Innocent kids. Loving rivers. Bringing death…
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White noise. Dark fear.
White noise is not the same as other noise - and even a quiet environment does not have the same effect as white noise. With a background of continuous white noise, hearing pure sounds becomes even more precise, as researchers have shown. Their findings could be applied to the further development of cochlear implants. (1)…
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