Dan Elton
@moreisdifferent
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Science & technology enthusiast. On my Substack I write about metascience, AI, & other topics. Leave me anonymous feedback here: https://t.co/LQ5eZWwDst
Bethesda, Maryland
Joined October 2010
PSA for Boston-area folks!! The @AugLab 2025 Human Augmentation Summit & Exhibition is being held at the MIT Media Lab August 23. I'll be there. I'm told that @algekalipso, @eliadeweismann & Ethan from @QualiaRI will be there! A large # of @ekkolapto researchers are attending!.
We are hosting the 2025 π·ππππ π°πππππππππππ ππππππ.at MIT @medialab on August 23rd, 9am-9pm. Come see the products & projects that pushing intelligence augmentation, bio-interfaces, longevity, collective intelligence, consciousness & more forward.
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I don't know what that means, but it doesn't sound good. EBV reactivation is probably a huge part of #LongCOVID etiology.
Nature research paper: EBV induces CNS homing of B cells attracting inflammatory T cells.
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π¨π¨Parts of the Constitution were just casually deleted from Congress's official Constitution website. π¬ The parts deleted involve habeas corpus rights, forbidding titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments (salaries/gifts). See for yourself:
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we strongly agree with cade metz and that one random theologist lady he talked to that the rationalist movement is a religion and lighthaven is its temple. we would like to claim property tax exemption immediately.
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The degree to which this area in East #Somerville is underdeveloped is astounding. If all those one story warehouses were replaced with 20-30 story apartment buildings, it would go a long way to solving the housing crisis. (rent for a crappy 1br is ~$2800 - $4000+) #Boston
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PSA for DC area folks -- the DC Abundance meetup is hosting a salon on metascience with @matthewesche! .
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Meanwhile in the UK. .
BREAKING: Zoomers cannot adjust their Nvidea graphics cards settings on their gaming PCs anymore because they aren't 18 thanks to the Online Safety Act.
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πΊπΈπΊπΈ.
The US just won the International Physics Olympiad!. They beat out China to claim the top spot.
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Basically yes, lol.
If nature obeyed the precautionary principle, weβd still be fish.
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Childhood memories.
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I like this vision of the future where AI remains as "intelligence on tap" . but I worry it may not take much to turn a non-agentic AI into something highly agentic. .
Intelligence is all the other things that are NOT agency and taste. Intelligence is on tap and humans must provide the agency and taste. And I am so glad for it.
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The WSJ seems to be having an outsized influence lately. They published this piece, and just ~2 days later Vinay Prasad was pushed out of the FDA. Sources say the order to "fire" Prasad came straight from Trump, over the objections of Secretary Kennedy.
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Just now learning how an amortized loan works π€― . why wasn't this taught in school. .
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PSA: The next @Ekkolapto virtual polymath salon will be on Friday August 1st. Topic is "The Future of Cognitive Augmentation" w/ @UTAustin's Jayanth Taranath. RSVP to join here =>
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WHAT βοΈ: β’ Featuring UT Austin PhD candidate Jayanth Taranath as we discuss BCI's and Human Behavior Data, Biology of Behavior, Biologically-Inspiredβ¦
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Wow. Not impossible but takes some serious engineering to handle that!.
AI datacenter power draws can fluctuate by 15MW in a couple milliseconds, enough to power 12,000 homes or to charge 750k iPhones . the engineering behind managing power fluctuations in datacenters is super underdiscussed imo
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Yup. Not helping your baby is a choice.
i realize there are very good reasons for people's objections to gene editing, but for me and my ehlers-danlos syndrome ruined body it does feel a little like people are saying "the moral choice is for you to suffer regular physical agony".
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"existential intelligence" -- I literally burst out laughing.
people who are bad at math love "multiple intelligences" because it's a neat story, emotionally appealing, illustrable with neat graphics and bright colors, and entirely made up
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today in "tweets that didn't age well" lol.
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