Juan Orbea

NeuroengineeringStudents will learn the fundamentals required for understanding neural circuits and designing and building interfaces between neurons and artificial neural hardware. Suggested subjects are 6.002, 6.003 and 6.009.

This mathematical pattern is a power law known as Zipf’s Law.

I think there is an important idea hidden in [1]: while the "social technology" community has come up with many good ideas around better governance, and many good ideas around better public discussion, there is a missing emphasis on better social technology for sorting . 

"I don't think all the deep biological things will be changed by AI. I think we will still really care about interaction with other people. I think the stuff that people cared about 50,000 years ago is more likely to be the stuff that people care about 100 years from now than 100 years ago."

Professor Price has enlarged his widely known and influential study of science and the humanities to include much new material, extraordinarily broad in its range: from ancient automata, talismans and symbols, to the differences of modern science and technology. Science since Babylon is now more fascinating and useful than ever to anyone concerned... See more

It’s natural to care about future generations: we may all want the lives of our children and grandchildren to go well, even before they are born. 

The Importance of Having a Body