HeyJaredMagnetic North: One Journalist's Quest to Make Sense of the Universe
Contested histories, anthropological investigations, supernatural sleuthing, and consciousness explorations courtesy of New York Times bestselling author Scott Carney
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There’s a Disturbing New Trend on YouTube (opens the original)
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Inside the Race to Stop AI-Generated Pandemics (opens the original)
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Last month a team at Stanford and the Arc Institute published something in Science that I have not been able to stop thinking about.A graduate student named Samuel King used a pair of AI models — Evo 1 and Evo 2, which are trained on raw genetic code the way ChatGPT is trained on text — to design complete virus genomes from scratch. This wasn’t a gene. It wasn’t just a protein. It was an entire functioning organism, written by a machine.Th
Is the Converse Outrage Propaganda? (opens the original)
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Peter Thiel’s Secret Civil War (opens the original)
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A strange thing happened in 2024 that confused me. After years of calling Trump one of the most dangerous political forces in history–an anti-democratic demagogue who orchestrated a plot to overturn an election– and going as far as throwing him off of the various social media platforms they owned–the techno oligarchs made a U-turn. Come inauguration day they–literally–all lined up behind him in a new alliance between MAGA and big tech. The dominant explanation was that they were simply in it for
What Everyone Gets Wrong about the AI Apocalypse (opens the original)
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