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Colin Carlson

@colincarlson.bsky.social

Climate change, global health security, science diplomacy, and good bad futures • Yale • carlsonlab.bio • viralemergence.org • he/they

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Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 1h ago

been thinking about this a lot. imo: there was a time when it made sense to say "all things equal, hiring ethicists to prioritize computer stuff over people stuff is a way of showing ass about your values," but that was a tech industry that had much less infinite resources than they do now.

LSM@slukemorgan.bsky.social · 2h ago

sorry but it's morally self-evident that a company that is trying to create an artificial sentience should be considering how to treat it ethically even if they haven't succeeded yet

Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 2d ago

Took one of those pre-sleep naps where your subconscious reveals the scale of your sadness measured against not the sadness of yesterday and the day before but the potential absence of any sadness in your life, leaving you confronted and hollow. Yall taking these naps 🤣🤣🤣

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3d ago

Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social: Indiscriminate brute-force application of AI to mathematics is depleting the field of good questions without renewing this resource or providing commensurate value. OpenAI: We hear you. Here's a .zip file with 377 hasty AI solutions to important open problems.

OpenAI Releases Findings on 377 Math Problems, Further Roiling Field (Gift Article)

After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.I. disrupting research.

nytimes.com

Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 2d ago

Absolutely enthralled that this horrible map - which is (1) inscrutably labeled, (2) poorly made, and (3) makes it look like there's local dengue transmission everywhere now (there's not) - somehow also (4) can't load on the turbo-enshittified Newsweek site www.newsweek.com/map-shows-st...

Map shows states where dengue fever cases have risen after Florida outbreak

Florida dengue outbreak drives rise in U.S. cases as CDC data show infections increasing across at least 15 states.

newsweek.com

Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s the middle of the night… can I be honest with you guys… the new animated Doctor Who show for kids that’s clearly just re-cannibalizing Rick and Morty… I’m feeling that it may be very joever for my friend Doctor Who

Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 3d ago

one thing that's very funny about Ted Lasso Women Season is that the original premise was this guy tapped into untoxic masculinity teaching other men it's okay to cry, but now it's just a man explaining the concept of crying to women

Christopher Callahan@ccallahan45.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Attribution science...helps us see a storm or a heat wave or a flood not as an act of a god or the whim of Mother Nature, but as a disaster that has been knowingly shaped or intensified by particular human actions." great piece by @jeffgoodell.bsky.social today www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o...

Opinion | The Science That Has Oil Companies Running Scared

However the U.S. Supreme Court rules, the work of holding oil companies accountable for climate change has a bright future.

nytimes.com