Hippo Meat Nearly Became an American Food Staple(ripleys.com)

109 points by nonethewiser 3 years ago | 138 comments

Schrödinger's Cat and Heisenberg's Cut(jimbaggott.substack.com)

13 points by lawrenceyan 1 year ago | 3 comments

Out of Control (1994)(kk.org)

56 points by dannyobrien 2 years ago | 12 comments

Spaghetti science: What pasta reveals about the universe(bbc.com)

39 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 7 comments

Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe(quantamagazine.org)

193 points by jnord 3 months ago | 120 comments

Beyond Meat fights for survival(foodinstitute.com)

172 points by airstrike 1 year ago | 497 comments

They're Made Out of Meat (1991)(mit.edu)

362 points by mailarchis 2 years ago | 122 comments

The full text of Terry Bisson's 1991 short science fiction story in which aliens are amazed to discover that humans are sentient beings made of meat.

They’re made out of weights(maxleiter.com)

1427 points by MaxLeiter 4 months ago | 633 comments

A short fiction blog post parodying Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat," with characters marveling that language models are made only of weights.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

Learning to Be Me (1990) [pdf](gwern.net)

18 points by zahrevsky 21 hours ago | 3 comments

PDF of Greg Egan's science fiction short story "Learning to Be Me," about a brain-implanted jewel that learns to imitate its host's mind.

Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability(electrek.co)

80 points by ciconia 26 days ago | 93 comments

Electrek article reporting that Tesla is taking on $30 billion in credit as the company nears unprofitability.

Why don’t more people live close to friends?(annehelen.substack.com)

399 points by sharkweek 3 years ago | 433 comments

Anne Helen Petersen's Culture Study essay offering theories on why people don't live closer to their friends despite being happier when they do.