Extremely excited about this from my friend Samuel Arbesman !

oh hell yea

And in case you aren't already, read the Cabinet of Wonders ! arbesman.substack.com

know this will be a brilliant read from the polymathic Samuel Arbesman !!

Big news from Lux Scientist in Residence - a new book!

Sam is one of my favorite thinkers. I call him anytime I am stuck on something and immediately get 3 new ideas. If this book is anything like that, I'll have 1000 new ideas from reading it.

This is going to be EPIC read. See thread... Lux's Samuel Arbesman has always said that code (computation + language) are like conjuring in magic. Watch for it! Then read it with all of us at Lux to know what spells we shall cast...mwahahaha.

Samuel Arbesman is writing a book called The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Built Our Modern World — and Shapes Our Future, which he calls "a liberal arts-infused approach to the realm of computing". arbesman.substack.com/p/the-magic-of…

"Scientific Facts change. Sometimes, on a predictable timeline.” Samuel Arbesman on the half-life of facts Listen to the full episode: kite.link/smartfriends63t

A conversation we've all had. strangeloopcanon.com/p/a-safety-sto…

Sam Arbesman singing to my soul, as always

1/11 🚀Launching State of the Future: The World's First Deep Tech Tracker. Technologies combine & reinforce in novel ways. We are exploring the intersections. stateofthefuture.xyz #DeepTech #StateoftheFuture Lunar Ventures

Wonderful conversation with Samuel Arbesman about science, imagination, theology, truth, wisdom, venture, and stagnation, among other things! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/med…

🚨New Essay!🚨 AI breaks our priors. As the AI safety debate embraces existential risks of AI, hallucination risks a la Gary Marcus or cyber risks, it's hard to figure out how to think about it all, esp today Vs the future. We need a better framework. strangeloopcanon.com/p/how-do-you-g…

✨ In praise of the General Single-Purpose Machine ✨ 🐢💻: General Turtle, Inc. and Educational Machines arbesman.substack.com/p/general-turt…

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