“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, " ... and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

Gödel’s Warning: How Democracy’s Own Rules Can Be Used to Destroy It www.criticalcontext.org/p/godels-war...

Proteins are compressed time: millions of years of evolution distilled into a molecular machine, exquisitely refined to carry out its function with precision

Facciamo Luce sulla New Space Economy: con Roberto Battiston e Raffaele Mauro open.spotify.com/episode/56nu...

Porta Sophia lancia un nuovo servizio online per la ricerca di strutture chimiche nell’ambito psichedelico aegle.beehiiv.com/p/tecnologie...

The legendary cyberpunk anthology “Mirrorshades” published online by Rudy Rucker: www.rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades...

Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf

MSEP: A Platform for Molecular Systems Engineering open.substack.com/pub/aiprospe...

AI4Research: A Survey of Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Research arxiv.org/abs/2507.01903

Accelerating increase in the duration of heatwaves under global warming www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Studio Aegle - Archivio tematico: Trial clinici e articoli scientifici sugli psichedelici spiegati e commentati aegle.beehiiv.com

A Lean companion to “Analysis I” terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/a...

Nuova presentazione “monster” di 340 slide, focalizzata su AI trends, dalla leggendaria Mary Meeker www.bondcap.com/reports/tai

De Novo Protein Design from Natural Language www.denovo-pinal.com www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

“Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable LEGO Designs from Text avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/

"Optimism vs Optimization: Candide in Silicon Valley" New article from Francesco Maria De Collibus - Critical Context www.criticalcontext.org/p/optimism-v...

“Ci sono soltanto due possibili conclusioni: se il risultato conferma le ipotesi, allora hai appena fatto una misura; se il risultato è contrario alle ipotesi, allora hai fatto una scoperta.” (Enrico Fermi)

"Humility is the ladder through which one can grasp every other good thing." (Cit.)

Modern Warfare and Mathematics - New article published on Critical Context Substack with @matteoscurati.bsky.social www.criticalcontext.org/p/modern-war...

Finally, some good news www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

3,500% Returns In 3 Hours: The Extreme Case of April 9, 2025 www.dataandpolitics.net/3-500-return...

AI 2027 By Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, Romeo Dean ai-2027.com

Can the dollar remain king of currencies? on.ft.com/43xSJim via @financialtimes | Barry Eichengreen

"The Future of Mathematics in a World of Machines" by Simone Severini www.linkedin.com/pulse/future...

Anche nel 2025, dopo il successo delle prime due edizioni, abbiamo costruito il nuovo bando per il premio Gabriella Sparvoli. Si tratta di un’iniziativa dedicata alla memoria di mia madre, costruita dalla nostra famiglia assieme al Soroptimist Club Pescara sites.google.com/view/premios...

Causal Emergence 2.0: Quantifying emergent complexity / Erik Hoel arxiv.org/abs/2503.133...

A Critical Context: New post about the politics of techno-optimism and its contradictions www.criticalcontext.org/p/a-critical... @matteoscurati.bsky.social

The touchstone of most authoritarian regimes is not the kind of total control that most people feel in their day-to-day lives. It is that the regime is only selectively bound by law, producing constant low-grade anxiety as to whether, how, or against whom power will be exercised.

Remember the positive aspects of this world: groundbreaking science and invaluable platforms like Wikipedia. These are not to be taken for granted—they are under threat from bigots and tyrants. It’s our responsibility to protect and strengthen them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA_va...

Psicologia e spazio: Il cosmo come specchio della mente / Intervista sul podcast Insight open.spotify.com/episode/4eIb...

In recent weeks, I’ve been talking more and more with friends about three main issues: a) ⁠AI developments b) ⁠The return of political conflict C)⁠ ⁠How to protect ourselves from new forms of authoritarianism Today we’re starting to write here: www.criticalcontext.org @matteoscurati.bsky.social

The Cultural Divide between Mathematics and AI / Sugaku Blog sugaku.net/content/unde...

Time complexity of the most popular ML algorithms

Curioso di sapere come un equivalente futuro di Ibn Khaldun o un Arnold Toynbee leggerà questo periodo

“Gli schermi brillano incessanti nella notte della ragione.” (Cit.)

Wake Up! youtu.be/4lzqUe1Qfec?...

“Questo secolo oramai alla fine Saturo di parassiti senza dignità Mi spinge solo ad essere migliore Con più volontà.” (Cit. F. Battiato)

Applied category theorists are flocking to AI, because that’s where the money is. In this post I describe a bit of what’s going on. I’ll start with a cautionary tale, and then turn to the most important program linking AI and category theory today. johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/c...

EUROSTACK Building a European alternative for technological sovereignty www.euro-stack.info

Intervista sul rapporto tra intelligenza artificiale e ricerca sugli psichedelici open.spotify.com/episode/3E4I...

The present is already past "When “Claude” was not a chatbot but the man who invented the field of information entropy, there was a different way to debug programming problems. ...

Which Economic Tasks are Performed with AI? Evidence from Millions of Claude Conversations www.anthropic.com/news/the-ant...

"Mathematics in the 20th century", by Michael Atiyah Local -> Global Increase in Dimensions Commutative -> Non-Commutative Linear -> Non-linear Geometry + Algebra + Techniques (K-theory, Homology Theory, Lie Groups, Finite Groups) lnkd.in/dDVfgZ7G

Part one of a collaboration with @3blue1brown.bsky.social on presenting the mathematics of the cosmic distance ladder in an accessible fashion.

“Depositiamo i nostri anni nel tempio delle illusioni, accettiamo che la nostra età è quella del cosmo.” (A. Jodorowsky)

Gradual Disempowerment: Systemic Existential Risks from Incremental AI Development gradual-disempowerment.ai