Interesting early evidence of complementarity, “floodlighting” & perhaps a biology-AI Amdhal’s law

Emigrating from Belfast to Los Angeles with a pit stop in Pittsburgh and San Francisco, creating the LA aqueduct, getting Mulholland Drive called after you, earning an honorary doctorate from Berkeley, and rejecting the idea of being LA mayor because you’d “rather give birth to a porcupine backwards”. What a guy!

Imagining a theme park called Fota(voltaic) Island to help galvanize the Irish towards being wholehearted stewards of technological progress, rooted in their own history of successful national STEM programs. I'm sure @oisin will have thoughts.

Great new podcast from one of the best

Finally watched Hackers. It was borderline goofy but the 90s retro somehow makes it feel more like a cultural relic than cringe. This set of interviews is cute.

Some great dystopian-realist vignettes here that I wish didn't resonate as much as they do, but I suppose they say "do not avert your gaze" for a reason.

An early vision describing humanity’s role in science as largely hermeneutical

“What happens in a world where AIs make scientific discoveries that humans cannot understand?”

Figure 2 is perhaps the most striking quantitative demonstration of growing US legislative dysfunction I’ve ever seen, and that's before taking into account everything post 2011