Ben Kelmendi

The phenomenon, called spontaneous kinematic self-replication, has been seen before in other kinds of molecular machines and models, but never before in living multicellular systems like the xenobots.

It is essential to recognize that expertise is not the same thing as having a credential—like a college degree, a PhD, or an MD

Within the next decade, we will need to make important decisions: whether to program novel viruses to fight diseases, what genetic privacy will look like, who will “own” living organisms, how companies should earn revenue from engineered cells, and how to contain a synthetic organism in a lab.

self-recognition.

"You're not just a user anymore. You're the infrastructure." This fundamental shift transforms the relationship between humans and technology. We're no longer simply using tools - we're becoming the substrate through which those tools operate.

Software can be rebuilt, because software is a machine. But a software ecosystem is not a machine. It is a living system. When we attempt to rebuild the ecosystem , we’re making a category error. We’re confusing the software for the ecological process unfolding around it.

We should randomize investigators to an RO1 cap at 2 vs not and study the effects.

What makes a given information processing system useful to an organization isn’t how much information it generates or even the raw amount of information it can process. Rather, [Simon argues], “the crucial question is how much information it will allow to be withheld from the attention of other parts of the system… To be an attention conserver for ... See more

This is the most spiritually important place in the world to the aboriginal Australians. The Anangu people who live here, named this place Uluru, and their culture, blood and mythology have been bonded with this land for sixty thousand years.