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The financialisation of psychedelics is going to set the whole field back, long term, almost as muc has banning the substances. The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) has reversed course on its long-held commitment to retain full ownership of its pharmaceutical development arm. On Jan. 5, MAPS Public Benefit Corporation (MAPS PBC) announced that…
the Weinersmiths aren’t anti-space. They aren’t even anti-space-settlement. Rather, they argue that the path to space-based scientific breakthroughs, exploration of our solar system, and a deeper understanding of our moral standing in a vast universe cannot start with space settlements. Landing people on the Moon or Mars any time soon is a stunt – a…
In our digital era, movies and T.V. shows were supposed to get easier to watch, not harder. But it turns out, media companies are fickle—and media distribution can get complicated as it crosses borders. … So what are a viewer’s options when a studio or streamer abruptly yanks a film or series from distribution or,…
The emergence of this population panic has set off my BS alert. It smell like the “AIs will end us” crap – and it’s spouted by the same dimwits. Very glad to see the evolution of thinking about *why* this argument is shaped the way it is. If that is the argument, it brings us close the…
This ends in two ways… the rich acquiesce to a tax regime that supports host they parasitize or guillotines. Canada’s Gilded Age is terrible for workers and bad for the economy. As the rich gain more power and entrench themselves further, the economy becomes less productive, and workers lose leverage to secure fair pay, better…
VCs poured money into virtual worlds, crypto startups, and NFT firms in 2021. They now have their sights set elsewhere. https://www.inc-aus.com/sam-blum/as-ai-rises-is-web3-dead-in-the-water.html
Brooks isn’t saying the AI industry is doomed, mind you, but that such ambitious technological advancements take time — and a lot of it. Whether the industry’s financial backers are ready to hunk down and play the long game, though, is more dubious. https://futurism.com/the-byte/robotics-expert-ai-hype-reality-check
Hassabis was, per the NYT‘s retelling, very skilled at convincing rich men to fund his dream of creating artificial general intelligence (AGI), and his interaction with Musk was no different. During a tour of SpaceX’s headquarters, the South African-born billionaire began bragging about his plans to take humanity to Mars to escape global overpopulation and the…
“California Forever” is a pet project of some Silicon Valley billionaires to build “a new walkable city of 50,000 people” on a traunch of agricultural land in Solano County, located in the northeastern region of the San Francisco Bay. While there is no shortage of billionaires in California, water rights (amongst other things) are essential, and these guys…
DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis scored an investment from Elon Musk after he pointed out the shortcomings in Musk’s plans to colonize Mars. Musk told Hassabis that he’d hoped humanity could avoid the threats from living on Earth by colonizing Mars, per a story by The New York Times published on Sunday. https://www.businessinsider.com/deepmind-founder-elon-musk-ai-could-destroy-mars-colonies-nyt-2023-12
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