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Author of 13 books, TV host, podcaster. Latest: Extra Life. Newsletter: . Speech inquiries email: wesn at leighbureau dot com

Brooklyn NY & Marin County CA
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    16 Apr 2021

    The story behind humanity's greatest achievement: the doubling of life expectancy. Coming to (and bookstores) May 11.

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  2. 12 hours ago

    Sign me up.

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    ENO the forthcoming documentary by announced today. To be released in 2023. More information here:
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    12 hours ago

    ENO the forthcoming documentary by announced today. To be released in 2023. More information here:

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  4. 17 hours ago

    I guess it's back to the coffeehouse model of innovation then.

    Zoom calls inhibit creativity compared with in-person interaction
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    20 hours ago

    Created with DALL·E 2 by 📝 "An IT-guy trying to fix hardware of a PC tower is being tangled by the PC cables like Laokoon. Marble, copy after Hellenistic original from ca. 200 BC. Found in the Baths of Trajan, 1506." 🔎 He just can't // //

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    Apr 25

    Pattie Maes, director of the group, has spent her career thinking about ways that technology can help people make decisions and deepen their connections with other people. She tells , "I'm in love with people, not machines!”

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    Apr 26

    .: "The constant message coming from right-wing media, particularly Fox News, is that everything is being taken away from you. Every institution is no longer yours. It is all being run by the libs who have colonized your mind and your culture."

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    Apr 26

    The initial design proposed for the Golden Gate Bridge. Kill your darlings, people.

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  9. Apr 26

    Excellent thread on the surge of activity around Large Language Models (including, in responses, some of the debate over how significant these developments will prove to be.) It's a pretty fascinating moment in this field.

    AI research is converging on a major finding: language models are a great substrate for all AI applications. This feels like a HUGE deal. Some examples:
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    Apr 25

    Ps the Twitter deal is far from approved and done. Months. A lot can happen. No one else seems to want it but FTC and SEC and DOJ can weigh in and impose conditions

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  11. Apr 25

    Excellent reminder—from one of our deepest thinkers on this question—that solving the town square problem is not easy. But clearly having two mega-billionaires with absolute control over two of the biggest squares is not the best strategy.

    Okay, like virtually everyone else who studies social media, I'm fascinated by 's takeover of Twitter. Let me say upfront: I have no idea what Twitter will be like under Elon's leadership and neither do you. But that's the point.
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    Apr 25

    Okay, like virtually everyone else who studies social media, I'm fascinated by 's takeover of Twitter. Let me say upfront: I have no idea what Twitter will be like under Elon's leadership and neither do you. But that's the point.

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    Apr 25

    prediction: returns as ceo, he & united in turning twtr into ad-free subscriber/token-based decentralized protocol (~public utility), bypassing public/board speedbumps/roadblocks

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    Apr 25

    You can make a strong argument that no innovation has done more to improve both the quality and length of our lives than vaccines have. (Though they are still largely a footnote in most history textbooks.)

    It's , a great time to share new program on 's Extra Life: A Short History to Living Longer. Fact-based research & data analysis improve . And have extended .
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  15. Apr 25

    You can make a strong argument that no innovation has done more to improve both the quality and length of our lives than vaccines have. (Though they are still largely a footnote in most history textbooks.)

    It's , a great time to share new program on 's Extra Life: A Short History to Living Longer. Fact-based research & data analysis improve . And have extended .
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    Apr 25

    It's , a great time to share new program on 's Extra Life: A Short History to Living Longer. Fact-based research & data analysis improve . And have extended .

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    The story behind humanity's greatest achievement: the doubling of life expectancy. Coming to (and bookstores) May 11.
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    Apr 25
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    Maybe not! But I think it would be inevitable. At the least it would be a for-profit corp optimizing for “how to make this most valuable to partners w different models” not just advertising.

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  18. Apr 25

    Time to go back and add a new chapter to my book Emergence, 20 years later.

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    Apr 25

    New math shows how, contrary to conventional scientific wisdom, conscious beings and other macroscopic entities might have greater influence over the future than does the sum of their microscopic components

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  20. Apr 25

    Fantastic thread. It would be great if this moment finally mobilized us to create a true public benefit social platform. It obviously doesn’t solve all the issues (particularly with speech regulation) but it’s an alternative we’ve been sorely lacking for 20 years now.

    So the world’s wealthiest space cowboy seems to be buying this global communications platform. RIP Twitter is trending. 🧵about what this means for the future of digital platforms:
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    Apr 25
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    i think tokenizing the infrastructure piece is the way to do it

    Twitter is too important to be owned and controlled by a single person. The opposite should be happening. Twitter should be decentralized as a protocol that powers an ecosystem of communication products and services.
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