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Merging Humans and AI: The Rise of Biological Computers

Go to https://brilliant.org/Undecided/ and get 20% off your subscription and a 30 day free trial with Brilliant.org! It’s no secret that tech companies are racing to build “artificial general intelligence,” or AI that can match a human brain without needing a lifeline. But our brains already do the same heavy lifting with just a fraction of the resources. Whether it’s energy, water, land, components, or, you know… money… human brains are just way cheaper. Right now, you can either buy a human brain cell-based computer… or rent time on a remote one. Yep, even brainpower’s got a subscription plan these days. So what can these living computers actually do? How do they work? And, most importantly, should we be freaking out a little bit?

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Space Habitats: The Megastructures We’ll Call Home

Explore the future of space habitats, from rotating cylinders and torus colonies to orbital cities, asteroid homes, and the megastructures humanity may one day live inside.

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Watch my exclusive video Nearby Supernovae: https://nebula.tv/videos/isaacarthur–… SFIA Merchandise: https://isaac-arthur-shop.fourthwall… 🌐 Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net ❤️ Support us on Patreon: / isaacarthur ⭐ Support us on Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/isaac-a… 👥 Facebook Group: / 1,583,992,725,237,264 📣 Reddit Community: / isaacarthur 🐦 Follow on Twitter / X: / isaac_a_arthur 💬 SFIA Discord Server: / discord Credits: Space Habitats: The Megastructures We’ll Call Home Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Editors: Briana Brownell, Ludwig Luska Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images, Anthrofuturism, Apogii.uk, Bryan Versteeg, Fishy Tree, Katie Byrne, Jarred Eagley, Jeremy Jozwik, Justin Dixon, Ken York YD Visual, Neil Blevins, Sergio Botero, Steve Bowers, and Udo Schroeter Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic and Markus Junnikkala, Phase Shift, Kai Engel, Chris Zabriskie, Taras Harkavyi, and Stellardrone 0:00 Intro 4:37 The Sunflower 14:07 The O’Neill Cylinder 49:00 Lewis One 57:40 Stanford Torus 1:22:19 Kalpana One 1:28:14 Nebula 1:29:27 Bernal Sphere 1:54:13 Bishop Ring 2:03:23 Topopolis 2:27:36 McKendree Cylinder 2:33:57 Hammer Habs 2:59:01 Rungworlds 3:04:35 Conglomerations 3:38:45 Epilogue.

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Space Habitats: The Megastructures We’ll Call Home.
Written, Produced \& Narrated by: Isaac Arthur.
Editors: Briana Brownell, Ludwig Luska.
Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images, Anthrofuturism, Apogii.uk, Bryan Versteeg, Fishy Tree, Katie Byrne, Jarred Eagley, Jeremy Jozwik, Justin Dixon, Ken York YD Visual, Neil Blevins, Sergio Botero, Steve Bowers, and Udo Schroeter.
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic and Markus Junnikkala, Phase Shift, Kai Engel, Chris Zabriskie, Taras Harkavyi, and Stellardrone.

0:00 Intro.
4:37 The Sunflower.
14:07 The O’Neill Cylinder.
49:00 Lewis One.
57:40 Stanford Torus.
1:22:19 Kalpana One.
1:28:14 Nebula.
1:29:27 Bernal Sphere.
1:54:13 Bishop Ring.
2:03:23 Topopolis.
2:27:36 McKendree Cylinder.
2:33:57 Hammer Habs.
2:59:01 Rungworlds.
3:04:35 Conglomerations.
3:38:45 Epilogue

Recursive Self Improvement

Computer, load up celery man.
Can AI build AI? Yes, and it already is. Sort of. I showcase the ability of AI agents like claude code to perform AI research, to build and optimize machine learning algorithms. I put various state-of-the-art LLMs like claude Mythos/Fable into an endless recursive research loop and have them build a neural network that learns the shape of the mandelbrot set. It is inspired by Andrej Karpathy’s autoresearch. While we watch this loop, I express my thoughts on the concept of recursive self improvement, arguing that it is possible, hard, and dangerous.
Sorry for the bitrate issues.

Fractalsearch repo: coming soon!

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Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/emergentgard… Autoreasearch: https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch Mandelbrot Zoom: • Mandelbrot World Record Attempt — Part 1 (… Celery Man: • Tim and Eric — Celery Man Karpathy’s Youtube: / @andrejkarpathy Self-building Cranes: • How Tower Cranes Build Themselves Darwin-Godel Machine: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22954 Hashgrid Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.05989 Anthropic’s RSI Article: https://www.anthropic.com/institute/r… Fable System Card: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56… My Music Guy: / @acolyte-compositions “Equatorial Complex” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b… ~TIMESTAMPS~ (0:00) Recursive Self Improvement (3:14) fractalsearch (9:56) RSI is Possible (15:03) RSI is Hard (21:52) RSI is Dangerous (26:03) Results (28:28) Cost (29:29) Takeoff.

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Autoreasearch: https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch.
Mandelbrot Zoom: • Mandelbrot World Record Attempt — Part 1 (…
Celery Man: • Tim and Eric — Celery Man.
Karpathy’s Youtube: / @andrejkarpathy.
Self-building Cranes: • How Tower Cranes Build Themselves.
Darwin-Godel Machine: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22954
Hashgrid Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.05989
Anthropic’s RSI Article: https://www.anthropic.com/institute/r…
Fable System Card: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56…

My Music Guy: / @acolyte-compositions.

New art test could help museums spot fake Van Goghs without touching paintings

A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties introduces a pioneering, noninvasive technique that can distinguish authentic artworks from forgeries, offering museums, collectors, and auction houses a major advantage in tackling art fraud.

The study, developed at the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, introduces a method that analyzes the microscopic “texture” of a painting by converting high-resolution images into 3D-like maps, allowing researchers to measure how rough or detailed the surface is using fractal dimensions. This measurement captures subtle patterns created by an artist’s brushwork—patterns so consistent that they act like a morphological signature unique to that artist.

Using works attributed to Vincent van Gogh, the researchers showed that the method can reliably distinguish between authentic paintings and known forgeries. In tests, the well-documented fake “The Plowmen” was identified as a strong outlier, while the recently authenticated “Sunset at Montmajour” aligned closely with Van Gogh’s known works.

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