#Emergence

The idea of convergent instrumental goals is a concept popularized by Omohundro and Bostrom. It means that, regardless of one’s ultimate goals, certain sub-goals are universal, are “instrumental” to the
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Je reviens sur mon aventure insolite d’hier soir avec un petit thread papillonesque ! Alors que j’étais dehors, un mystérieux papillon de nuit se pose à côté de moi, je
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Ok, just to hedge a bit, there is a plausible albeit low likelihood scenario in which the next big wave is driven by a derivative of Omicron. But this exception
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Brexitland is out today! To celebrate the release of our new book I'm going to put up a graph a day here highlighting some of the big themes we discuss.
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Bonjour Homo sapiens de 2020, c'est à nouveau Léo qui vous parle https://iletait1fois2020.wordpress.com/about/ . En ayant fait quelques recherches sur votre époque je me suis rendu compte que vous vivez en
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Very excited to unveil a white paper I’ve been working on: “The American biomedical research enterprise in a post-COVID-19 world”. http://rescuingbiomedicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Report-Final.pdf 1/ This was a months-
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coronavirus & 5G - an introduction(a thread) read it with an open mind, let me know your takeCoronaviruses are a large group of viruses that are known to infect both
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1. Some thoughts on media, democracy, skepticism, and trust. It’s commonplace for us to teach kids to be skeptical consumers of media. But perhaps we should slightly reframe that advice
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We’ve had the worst Flu season (19/20) since the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918. Not a WORD mentioned- in fact it literally evaporated since February. To understand WHY our flu
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The Real-Time Tragedy of Aggregation in the Age of COVID191/ The current health tragedy surrounding the spread of COVID19 cannot be discounted, however the real tragedy isn't the health crisis,
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Severely immunosuppressed people can battle #SARSCoV2 for months. Some virologists are convinced the #variants emerged in this setting. My latest for @JAMA_current deals with how to care for these vulnerable
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Let's go over why, as far as Islam is concerned, these points are irrelevant AND how research demonstrates belief in God is far more intrinsic/refined than this article would like
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What is complexity science? A complex system is collective (many body--meaning many interacting parts), coupled (what i do effects what you do), characterized by adaptation/ learning, feedback b/w scales, nonlinearities,
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Is the woman a mere helper?A thread http://georgesdiary.blog/2021/05/01/is-the-woman-a-mere-helper/ “Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just
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As we await the result of the 2020 Labour Leadership contest, read up on some of the historic battlesFrom the shock death of Hugh Gaitskell in 1963 to the rise
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Teamwork... This ought to rattle some cages...1) RaTG13 is incapable of binding to a bat or a pangolin (no binding observed), and is less than 1/1000 the affinity to humans
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