In 1946, he wrote a PhD thesis "on the statistical analysis of climate variation". He did not get a degree - his thesis had 500 pages, and the committee suggested that he shorten it. He declined and never completed his PhD
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His early computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution are considered pioneering in artificial life research. Barricelli, who was independently wealthy, held an unpaid residency at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey in 1953, 1954, and 1956. In Princeton, he worked with John von Neumann, by whom he was never academically recognised,
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Nils Aall retweeted
Absolutely wild that it's just possible to... will things into existence. Throughout your entire education (0-22 y.o.) you are conditioned to accept the world as-is, and in the following decades you slowly unlearn this conditioning and internalize the fact that you can actually change things. Everything.
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4) place a wager their work is full of baloney
5) win their money
6) they beg your forgiveness, vow to do only good research
7) sorry fellas, gotta have some skin in the game - im afraid youre gonna have to keep science betting
8) repeat
9) flying cars
The bull case for DeSci token should be 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
1) pick a prestigious university or lab
2) start replicating all their research and show how it’s all fake until they pay a ransom
3) profit
DM me if you are into this idea.
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Nils Aall retweeted
AGI (real) and DeSci (real) are blowing my mind.
The Singularity is now!
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science betting is good becuase it automatically:
- prioritizes important questions
- assigns bounties for correctness
- drives open acess
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crazy that we
- started a week ago
- shadowbanned viciously on multiple levels
- account repeatedly locked
- stuck 25 followers due to the above
and someone still decided to create a fraud/clone account of us
beware impostors!
sciencebets.net @FDAbets the real deal
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ngl DAOs are great and all but at end of the day theyre fundraising and governance tools.
deceentralized truth arbitration is untouched by DAOs
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Gregor Mendel didn’t have a lab—just a monastery garden and a question. That’s how genetics was born. 🌿✨
#desci #citizenscientist
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