Opportunities
AI Grant’s second batch is now accepting applications (via @natfriedman)
Longevity Biotech Fellowship 2 is also accepting applications (via @allisondman)
Science writing office hours with Niko McCarty (this one over but more in the future)
News & links
I-95 reopened in just 12 days after a section of it collapsed. Gov. Shapiro says this proves “that we can do big things again in Pennsylvania”
Arcadia Science will publish their abandoned projects (via @stuartbuck1)
Short interview with the Hiroshima bombing mission lead (via @michael_nielsen)
Queries
When was the last time a positive vision of the future took hold?
How do airlines pool information / make agreements on safety and avoid antitrust?
A FAQ that addresses the arguments/concerns of vaccine skeptics?
Quotes
“The Flat Iron is to the United States what the Parthenon was to Greece”
The terrible treatment of the girls who worked in the Bryant and May match factory
AI risk
Claim: now is an “acute risk period” that only ends with a “global immune system”
Concerns about AI are warranted, but there are very valid counter-arguments
Tweets
Induction vs. deduction / empiricism vs. rationalism are the falsest dichotomies
What someone’s unwillingness to debate says about their position
“How easy is it for a kid to operate a lemonade stand?” as a city metric. Kennett Square, PA and Tooele, UT score well
A 13-story, 245-unit timber high rise that would be illegal to build in the US
Things that “made the modern world,” according to book titles
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/vaccines has a bunch of questions about vaccines and generally high-level answers which makes it more trustworthy than a FAQ paid by Gates Foundation money or similar sources would be.
I recently added a few questions for some of the main arguments that RFK Jr. made recently.