Thou shalt not make a human mind in the likeness of a machine.
Nick Longrich
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Paleontologist, biologist, sometimes archaeologist from Alaska. Dinosaurs, evolution in deep time and writing. Nature is the only authority that is never wrong.
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He cited scripture from the Orange Catholic Bible, saying “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”
A man has been granted a religious exemption allowing him to avoid using AI at work
David Durman argued that outsourcing his thinking to AI goes against his deeply held beliefsView quoted post on X
Not sure anyone is ready for how much AI is likely to transform science. The closest analogy I can think of is industrialization letting farmers to grow more crops with less people, using tractors and combines. AI will allow fewer people to do more science, faster, and better.
According to Herodotus, the Oracle of Delphi told Croesus, King of Lydia, that if he attacked Persia, “you will destroy a great empire” and he did- Lydia.
In 547 BC, Croesus's army was defeated by Cyrus, the Lydian kingdom was conquered, and its capital, Sardis, was sacked. Buried in the ruins of Sardis's walls, a Lydian soldier is still clutching a slingshot stone in his left hand; his body is marked by "parry fractures" by the invading Persian army who cut him down and thrown him in the rubble of its fortifications.View quoted post on X
Almost no rocks on Earth preserve the Hadean, the first 500 million years of our planet's history. My theory is we should look on the moon for bits of Earth's early crust shot into space by asteroid impacts. I wonder if you could find them by looking for oddly colored rocks...
I took about 50,000 photos through a 14" telescope last night to produce this: A hyper-detailed photo of the full moon. The fidelity of the photo was great enough to allow me to greatly enhance the color, revealing a hidden world of geological diversity.View quoted post on X
