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Anders Sandberg retweeted
Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement”
technologyreview.com/2026/07…
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I agree. (But I am by nature prolix, so even my brief notes will have a 40 page appendix...)
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Trying to get Claude Opus 5.5 to analyze a technical problem in population ethics, and immediately running into this. I assume it is because it finds the Conclusion Repugnant.
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Anders Sandberg retweeted
Announcing a Special Issue on "In-Situ Resource Utilization and Construction Technologies for Space Exploration."
Dear Colleagues,
I am co-editing a special issue on In-Situ Resource Utilization and Construction Technologies for Space Exploration to be published by MDPI (Basel, Switzerland) in both their Aerospace journal and their Astronautics journal. (Two journals will provide more visibility for your research.)
This Special Issue brings together the progress of leading researchers and technologists for in situ resource utilization and construction in space. In addition, it welcomes contributions of techno-economic, logistical, and/or operational analyses of these activities in space, papers reporting the progress in artificial intelligence needed to enable it, and relevant review papers. We welcome papers focused on the Moon, asteroids, Mars, or elsewhere in space.
The Aerospace Journal website for this special issue is here:
mdpi.com/journal/aerospace/s…
The Aerospace Journal website for it is here:
mdpi.com/journal/astronautic…
Please consider submitting a paper to this special issue!
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What I truly love with the video is the density of tiny erudite references. Good job everyone, regardless of biology or lack thereof .
Music video for "I am actually scared of linear algebra" animated by Claude Opus 5.5.
I'm sure this is partly the IKEA effect but I'm very happy with the result, love it!
Original song by Suno, Claude and @AndyMasley
Prompt below
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This is longtermist fun I want to try at some point! xkcd.com/3303/
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I think a better approach is "follow the attention" and then dig into the ideas and arguments critically. Far too much engagement is about who belongs to what group, rather than what they actually say. Sometimes people try to say things about reality... and that can matter.
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The closest I got to seeing this kind of messy dynamics was when I did an OPSEC seminar at FHI in 2017, noticing that as AI was becoming strategic we should be a bit concerned... but most focus was elsewhere.
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I am a believer in the marketplace of ideas, but everything sells better with marketing!
So unfortunately, absent an enlightened disinterested debate about the topic aiming at generally agreeable compromises, we get this mess...
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Anyway, one lesson is that hair tends to be abandoned when we want uniformity (usually in measurements), while it is retained when the goal is soft, compliant, non-marring low-mass contact.
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