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S3S4Humanity needs an ethical upgrade to keep up with new technologies  Last week, I discussed the making of the atomic bomb with 65 students taking my class at Dartmouth. The goal was to contrast the scientific challenge of building the bomb during the Manhattan Project with the decision to drop two bombs in Japan. The essential tension is that, even though scientists created the bomb, they had little to no say in how it was (or was not) to be used. If you’ve watched Oppenheimer, this point was made quite clear in the movie.
I complemented the discussion of the atomic bomb with the Big Think video featuring Nobel-Prize winner Jennifer Doudna about the genetic engineering tool called CRISPR, which enables scientists to alter the genetic code directly, as you would — in a somewhat simplified analogy — edit text on a word processor.
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S11Can Music Make Your Food Taste Better? Music is all about context. The same high-energy track that keeps you moving at a concert might feel disruptive and annoying if blasted at a restaurant. A 2018 study published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Sciences even found that the louder a restaurant’s music is, the more likely customers are to order unhealthy foods, possibly due to increased stimulation and stress.Music can affect your mealtime, just as it can affect all human experiences to some extent. But what if music were treated not just as background to your food, but as an ingredient? Can music go beyond ambience, to directly enhance and complement tasting, chewing, swallowing? Can music be not just “the food of love,” as Shakespeare wrote in the opening of Twelfth Night, but the food of … well, food?
There’s lots of historical precedent for food that incorporates music, from medieval English chefs hiding singing birds in a pie, to the provocative cookbooks of the Italian Futurist movement in the 1930s, which turned eating into avant-garde performance art. In one Futurist recipe called “raw meat torn apart by trumpet blasts,” diners are asked to alternate between blowing a trumpet and chomping on a boozy cube of beef.
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S13Training is not the same as chatting: ChatGPT and other LLMs don’t remember everything you say This can be quite unintuitive: these tools imitate a human conversational partner, and humans constantly update their knowledge based on what you say to to them. Computers have much better memory than humans, so surely ChatGPT would remember every detail of everything you ever say to it. Isn’t that what “training” means?
As a big simplification, there are two phases to this. The first is to pile in several TBs of text—think all of Wikipedia, a scrape of a large portion of the web, books, newspapers, academic papers and more—and spend months of time and potentially millions of dollars in electricity crunching through that “pre-training” data identifying patterns in how the words relate to each other.
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S17Neuralink Seeks to Enroll Three Patients in Brain Implant Study Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-chip company, aims to enroll three patients to evaluate its device in a study expected to take several years to complete, according to details on the U.S. government's clinical trials database.
The company had sought to enroll 10 patients when it applied to U.S. regulators to begin clinical trials, Reuters reported last year. Neuralink is testing its implant designed to give paralyzed patients the ability to use digital devices by thinking alone, a prospect that could help people with spinal cord injuries.
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S18How to Use Substack to Build a Community With Your Customers The digital platform--most known for its newsletter functionality--allows users to start their own publications with newsletter, forum, and podcasting capabilities. Entrepreneurs say it's a platform that lets them form an intimate community of readers and a safe space where they can bounce ideas off of one another.Â
Take Dianna Cohen, founder of New York City-based hair care brand Crown Affair, for example. Through her Substack, "Take Your Time With Dianna Cohen," the founder publishes lifestyle content, such as her favorite products and wellness tips. Her most viewed post, "The Magic of Mood Boarding"--which chronicles her experience with moodboarding and how she used it to build the brand identity of Crown Affair--received more than 5,000 likes and converted 223 subscribers. Now, she has more than 1,500 subscribers.
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S19M&A Should Be Transformational -- Not Transactional M&A deals have traditionally been transactional in nature, pursued for economies of scale and to consolidate costs. But that approach has more limited success in today’s volatile business landscape and won’t provide the transformational results that companies need today. To unlock the growth potential that transformational M&A can bring, leaders need a shift in thinking and behavior. In the ever-evolving M&A landscape, mindset and agility are the compass points which can guide organizations toward growth and lasting change. Combining an adaptive mindset with an agile approach arms leaders with a preparedness to pivot as needed. Success in M&A is no longer achieved by following static playbooks; it comes through navigating the dynamic landscape with adaptability. Leaders who embrace uncertainty and adopt an agile approach to M&A integration can achieve the transformative potential that M&A promises.
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S20How to Make Your Leadership Potential More Visible In this episode, she explains how to adopt markers of different leadership styles, so that you can be seen as both influential and likable. She also discusses why it’s important to focus on relationship building as you progress in your career. As she says, “Mid-career and rising senior level, now it’s all about the relationships. It’s all about how you’re perceived.”
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S21How One Energy CEO Is Leading a Transition Toward Clean Energy As the CEO of one of the largest energy holding companies in the U.S., Lynn Good is leading Duke Energy’s aggressive transition to renewables and net zero emissions. It’s a complex undertaking that involves short-term planning and long-term advances in technology as well as managing a wide range of stakeholders.
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S22'Largest Botnet Ever' Tied to Billions in Stolen Covid-19 Relief Funds The United States Department of Justice on Wednesday announced charges against a 35-year-old Chinese national, Yunhe Wang, accused of operating a massive botnet allegedly linked to billions of dollars in fraud, child exploitation, and bomb threats, among other crimes.
Wang, identified by numerous pseudonymsâÂÂTom Long and Jack Wan, among othersâÂÂwas arrested on May 24 and is accused of distributing malware through various pop-up VPN services, such as âÂÂProxyGateâ and âÂÂMaskVPN,â and by embedding viruses in internet files distributed via peer-to-peer networks known as torrents.
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S23Climate and health benefits of wind and solar dwarf all subsidies When used to generate power or move vehicles, fossil fuels kill people. Particulates and ozone resulting from fossil fuel burning cause direct health impacts, while climate change will act indirectly. Regardless of the immediacy, premature deaths and illness prior to death are felt through lost productivity and the cost of treatments.
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S24S25Do our oceans feel the tug of Mars? Well into the space age, our thinking about the heavens is still entangled with ideas from ancient Greece. Like the classical Greek cosmologists, we tend to envision the heavenly realm as a place of order and harmony, with planets and moons in elegant, unchanging orbits.
As Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton later showed, this is true in approximation. But in detail, the motions of the planets are messy and erratic. Like the squabbling gods the Greeks once imagined them to be, the planets tease and tug at each other, and these gravitational provocations cause them to tilt, wobble, and nod as they circle the sun. While science has abandoned the Greek belief in astrology—the idea that celestial bodies govern human destinies—the Earth as a whole really does feel the pull of other planets. In fact, the heavens may be responsible for some of Earth’s more unruly behaviors and even what we, after the Greeks, call “disasters”—literally, bad stars.
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S26Want a Tesla Factory Tour? Vote for Elon Musk's $56 Billion Pay Package Elon Musk is offering tours of Tesla's factory next month to 15 shareholders who vote on his $56 billion pay package, the latest effort by the electric vehicle maker to rally votes for the compensation after a court struck it down. Â
The upcoming vote, whose result will be announced at the company's annual meeting on June 13, is seen as a referendum on Musk's leadership as investors worry that he is distracted by his other ventures and that his often controversial comments are weighing on the reputation and sales of Tesla.Â
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S27Dear Therapist: A Son I Didn't Know Existed Just Found Me My wife of 31 years and I are currently dealing with an issue that I thought happened only in books and movies, but boy, was I wrong.I recently received an email that started out "This is going to sound strange ⦠but I think you know my mother?" Well, I did know his mother, because I dated her as a teenager and young adult, and now I have a 35-year-old son I knew nothing about as well as five grandchildren (confirmed through DNA)!
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S288 basic unanswered questions about the known particles There are many aspects of reality that we once assumed we understood, only for it to later be revealed that our earlier understanding was primitive, incomplete, and facile. We thought that nature was purely classical and deterministic, but the wave nature of light, and later the wholehearted discovery of quantum physics, painted a deeper picture of reality. We once thought that atoms made up everything; now we know that atoms are simply one set of examples of how more fundamental particles bind together. Given that we now have the Standard Model of elementary particles, along with the quantum field theories that govern them, it seems foolish to presume that we know all that there is to know about the entities composing our Universe.
While many are on the hunt for new fundamental particles in the quest to solve some of the great mysteries and puzzles of our time, including:
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S29Why apathy and fear are the two most useless positions on AI Ethan Mollick, professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of “Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI,” explores the impact of AI on our work, creative endeavors, and overall lives.
AI is reshaping our understanding of humanity and intelligence, evolving from simple prediction tools to sophisticated large language models, but how do we keep it from dooming us all? Should we be more afraid of it, or are we actually in control? Mollick proposes four most likely predictions of our future with AI – As Good As It Gets, Slow Growth, Exponential Growth, and The Machine God – and explains the likelihood and potential results of each one.
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S30A beginner's guide to sociopolitical collapse A society does not ever die ‘from natural causes,’ but always dies from suicide or murder—and nearly always from the former.”
À propos of nothing, I have found myself wondering recently what it would be like to live through a collapse. Would I see it coming? What would be the signs?
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