Credit: Martin Giraud
https://t.co/JG0IcOxWvO
(https://twitter.com/wonderofscience/status/1579086778845233155?s=02)
Sunday, October 9, 2022
As the world turns
Earth's rotation visualized in a stunning timelapse that follows a fixed point in the sky.
Saturday, October 8, 2022
How a Scottish Moral Philosopher Got Elon Musk’s Number
...In August, Mr. Musk retweeted Mr. MacAskill’s book announcement to his 108 million followers with the observation: “Worth reading. This is a close match for my philosophy.” Yet instead of wholeheartedly embracing that endorsement as many would, Mr. MacAskill posted a typically earnest and detailed thread in response about some of the places he agreed — and many areas where he disagreed — with Mr. Musk. (They did not see eye to eye on near-term space settlement, for one.)
For his part, Mr. MacAskill accepts responsibility for what he calls misapprehensions about the community. “I take a significant amount of blame,” he said, “for being a philosopher who was unprepared for this amount of media attention.”
In a few short years, effective altruism has become the giving philosophy for many Silicon Valley programmers, hedge funders and even tech billionaires.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/business/effective-altruism-elon-musk.html?smid=em-share
Monday, October 3, 2022
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