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Damien Broderick - Wikipedia

Of particular significance to me, given my career in VR, is that he was also the first to use the term "virtual reality" in science fiction in his 1982 novel The Judas Mandala.

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Damien Broderick - Wikipedia

Damien was well known in our futurist and transhumanist circles as the science fiction author and popular science writer who was the very first to explain the technological singularity to the masses in his 1997 book The Spike.

Damien Broderick - Wikipedia

I just heard this sad news from Damien's wife and science-fiction co-author Barbara. He passed at age 81. May he rest in peace.

Damien Broderick - Wikipedia

💔 DAMIEN BRODERICK PASSED 💔 — It is with a heavy heart that I share the news of Damien Broderick's passing today. Damien was a visionary author, scholar, and thinker. Damien's work profoundly shaped the landscape of science fiction, transhumanism, and futurist thought.

My heart overflows with gratitude for this blessing of finding such a wonderful life companion. I’m a bit surprised too that she still stands by me, because I’m not always the easiest person to live and work with.

🥰 20 YEARS MARRIED! 🥰 — My dearest darling Helen & I got married 20 years ago, and we’ve been an almost literally inseparable couple for over 24 years, and counting!

Pray join us in celebrating each other and our happy union!

America.

The most recent issue of Free Astronomy Magazine (November-December 2024) is available for your reading and downloading pleasure in English, Italian, Spanish, French, and Arabic at www.astropublishing.com (and light (no pun intended) commentary at www.somewhereville.com).

Despite its impressive output, generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the world Large language models can achieve incredible performance on some tasks without having internalized a coherent model of the world or the rules that govern it, MIT researchers find. This means these mod...

Submarines don't swim, and LLMs don't model the world like humans do. Expect unintuitive failure modes out of AI as a result. As AI becomes harder to avoid, it's unfortunately on us to be actively skeptical. news.mit.edu/2024/generat...

When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows Exercise can have benefits at the level of neurons, through chemical and mechanical effects, MIT researchers find. The discovery could inform exercise-related therapies for repairing damaged and deter...

Because nowadays, lots of people need neurons
news.mit.edu/2024/when-mu...

barack obama is sitting in a chair making a funny face with his hands in the air . ALT: barack obama is sitting in a chair making a funny face with his hands in the air .

Why is it so difficult for people to understand the government has no place in deciding what a woman can and can not do with her body?

"I don't believe that all people are dumb. I believe that some folks are unaware or willfully or unwillingly ignorant and that's just plain stupid." ~ Bruce Maiman https://www.huffpost.com/.../ignorance-america-politics...

"I don't believe that all people are dumb. I believe that some folks are unaware or willfully or unwillingly ignorant and that's just plain stupid." ~ Bruce Maiman
www.huffpost.com/.../ignoranc....

The six types of courage. Physical, social, moral, emotional, intellectual, spiritual.

We all face the world differently, each with our own strengths.

Absolute certainties are absolutely verboten.