New Light on Dark Energy Points to Our Privileged Space

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Modern astronomy relies not only on bigger telescopes and more sophisticated instruments, but upon computational power. Source
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“Accelerating” Toward a Post-Human Future, and Loving It

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There is a lot of AI Apocalypse Now! and AI Utopia Soon! in the news these days. Source
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