Tracking the unevenly-distributed future
Four Futures
We are in a moment where the future is both wildly exciting and highly uncertain. The future state and greatest opportunities are likely determined by the axes: rate of advancement and the openness of the frontier models.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons/Update history/3.0
Animal Crossing: New Horizons version 3.0 is an upcoming update due for release on January 15, 2026, alongside Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2...
How to Future
A good futurist focuses on the 3 time phases: past, present, future.
Peter Plavchan on Twitter / X
Came across this beauty of a Research Note. Looks like it was done by someone at JPL with a HS student. Pulled period and semi-major axis for Kepler and TESS transiting planets from the NASA Exoplanet archive, and verified Kepler's 3rd law. https://t.co/JSIlg6Aw5s— Peter Plavchan (@PlavchanPeter) September 27, 2024
We need more tiny knowledge projects—here’s one
Crowdsourcing dynamic illustrations for a new astronomy book by Terry Tao and Tanya Klowden. The other day I was reading the sample chapter of a new book by Terence Tao and Tanya Klowden, on the so-called cosmic distance ladder. It’s a lovely piece of writing. The chapter tells the story of how Johannes Kepler, using data collected by Tycho Brahe, solved the puzzle of planetary motion. It puts us in the discoverers’ shoes: instead of working backwards from Kepler’s equations, we work forwards from the inexp
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
The Coming Second Copernican Revolution | NOEMA
Astrobiology is rewiring our understanding of the intimate connection between life and planets as they appear in the universe.
The Daily Planet #120: Deep Time Continued - The Daily Planet
The era of precision cosmology with voids
Cosmic voids, the large underdense regions of our Universe, have emerged over the past decade as powerful cosmological laboratories: their simple dynamics, sensitivity to local gravitational...
Translation State
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across the stars in this powerful novel from a Hugo...
How are we writing the future of humanity?
Consciousness spinning
The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go From Here?
This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB.
Why Centralized AI Is Not Our Inevitable Future
This talk was given at the O’Reilly AI Codecon on September 9th. Here’s a recording of the talk as delivered. Here’s the official recording (which had a slight technical glitch day of). https://common.tools/talks/why-centralized-ai-is-not-our-inevitable-future points here —--- Hi, I'm Alex Komoro...
