Fish have a brain microbiome – could humans have one too?(quantamagazine.org)

318 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 122 comments

Quanta Magazine article on the discovery that fish have a brain microbiome and the controversial possibility that humans might too.

A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

78 points by aray07 4 hours ago | 39 comments

Blog post by Murat Demirbas reflecting on Ananyo Bhattacharya's biography of John von Neumann, focusing on his talent for abstraction across math, physics, economics, and computing.

Why today's humanoids won't learn dexterity(rodneybrooks.com)

190 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 192 comments

Machine intelligence (2015)(blog.samaltman.com)

77 points by reducesuffering 2 years ago | 142 comments

The Coming Robot Home Invasion(andykessler.com)

25 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 35 comments

What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data?(niemanlab.org)

91 points by hhs 3 years ago | 81 comments