BIG NEWS!
For the past few years, we've given scientists budgets so they can fund their peers with small, fast grants. Today, we're going bigger.
We're opening up a call to find and fund emerging "field builders"—people with the ambition and curiosity to kickstart a new field
Field Builders make the fields that make the future. More people should consider the role.
We’re backing at least 50 Field Builders to launch grant programs in emerging scientific fields. Each Field Builder will award $70,000 to researchers they recruit and receive a $5,000
A good "ought" here.
Related to my: "Voice your opinions strongly; hold them loosely." (In other words, talk like a hedgehog, think like a fox. You'll be understood more often and right more often.)
Both left and right challenges to the founding "stem from a form of pessimism—but that neither is quite pessimistic enough... we ought to be absolutists about right and wrong, but relativists about praise and blame."
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I'm absolutely thrilled to have written this article for Long Now. It's about AI and time: how we got here, and what we can do now, when all of the pace layers are disrupted at once by an influx of new minds.
I wrote this over the summer. At the time, it seemed maybe too weird,
In 02025, @deepfates helped throw a funeral for an AI. The power went out mid-ceremony, and the crowd hummed it back to life.
In “Attention is All You Need,” deepfates tells the story of that night, their backstory on a hippie commune with Whole Earth Catalogs on the shelf, and
