Face-to-face gatherings produce more ideas – and more inventive ones – than videoconferencing, say researchers.

In my recent tribute to Sir Arthur C. Clarke I cited earlier science fiction writer and philosopher Olaf Stapledon, who had a profound influence on Clarke. Here I’m zooming on Stapledon’s cosmic theology.

I am promoting this reply to the front page to add images and see what happens (experimental theology I guess).

In my recent post “Merlin Speaks — Arthur C. Clarke on technological resurrection” I call Sir Arthur C. Clarke “my Master,” and I mean it: no other thinker has had such a deep influence on me.

The alien environment could provide a unique window into the earliest days of life on Earth—but its future is uncertain.

The world order that existed since the end of World War II is coming to an end. We we can expect to see in the next few years. As a bonus I added some never se…

The optimal choice of hypothesis is the weakest not the shortest.

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Generative multi modal models are context dependent learners.

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As Chinese social media platforms move toward requiring users to disclose more information about their real identities, will we lose what made us want to be online in the first place?

Some 80-year-olds seem like they’re 60, while some 60-year-olds seem closer to 80. Johns Hopkins researchers are part of a new program to understand and predict the differences in how we all age.