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Nikola Jokić is a professional athlete — one of the best basketball players of all time. But the 30-year-old Denver Nuggets center's greatest asset isn't his height, light feet, or skill with the ball. According to the rest of the NBA, it's his brain. "He’s just, I mean, probably the smartest player that’s ever played," says his teammate Christian Braun. Opponents like the Minnesota Timberwolves' Mike Conley, Golden State Warriors' Draymond Green, and the Warriors' coach, Steve Kerr, agree. “It goes so far beyond the skill level with Jokić. It’s the demeanor, it’s the competitiveness, it’s the intelligence. He is absolutely one of the smartest players ever,” says Kerr. For The Ringer, Michael Pina looks at Jokić's brain power — photographic memory, decision-making skills, deep understanding of his sport — how others have tried to quantify it, and the advantages it brings to his team.

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#Basketball#NBA#NikolaJokic
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#animals #nature #intelligence
"These findings indicate that this highly intelligent species is even more socially complex than we previously understood it to be—and could inform vital efforts to manage and protect these animals in the wild and in captivity."
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Scientific American · Male African Elephants Were Once Thought to Be Solitary—New Research Reveals They Have Complex Social NetworksBy Caitlin O'Connell
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

LOL - Total Idiocracy: "It's possible that the White House may be looking to replace Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after critics warned that a pair of controversial Signal chats risked compromising US national security.

In March, it was revealed that Hegseth accidentally texted secret bombing plans in a Signal chat that included a reporter, raising alarms about his handling of sensitive military information. And then this weekend, The New York Times revealed that he similarly shared the attack plans, just minutes after learning of them, in a personal Signal chat that included his wife and brother.

That second revelation sparked a "full-blown meltdown" at the Pentagon, The Guardian reported, apparently prompting the Trump administration to begin "the process of looking for a new secretary of defense," a US official granted anonymity told NPR Monday."

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Ars Technica · White House plagued by Signal controversy as Pentagon in “full-blown meltdown”By Ashley Belanger
#USA#Trump#Pentagon
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Whitehead

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) English mathematician and philosopher
Speech (1916-01), “The Aims of Education — a Plea for Reform,” Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association

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WIST Quotations · Speech (1916-01), "The Aims of Education -- a Plea for Reform," Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association - Whitehead, Alfred North | WIST QuotationsIn the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day…
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Petra van Cronenburg

🧵 and therefore, please, no sense of #kinship. If you talked about #intelligence or #emotions in animals, you could become an outlaw. If you talked about watching horses take medicine, or #animals griefing, most people laughed at that crazy human.

It took nearly too much time for a change but it came. The primatologist and ethologist Frans de Waal was one of the scientists who impressed me, he analysed why the #mindShift in his field of expertise came so late. theguardian.com/books/2016/oct

The Guardian · Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal – reviewBy Matthew Cobb
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> Stupidity isn’t just a lack of #intelligence —it’s the refusal to think critically, and it’s everywhere. In this video, we dive into The Stupidity Epidemic, exploring why people ignore #facts, how #SocialMedia fuels #misinformation, and why Dietrich Bonhoeffer believed #stupidity is more dangerous than evil. From blind groupthink to misplaced confidence, we break down how #ignorance spreads, why it thrives in positions of power, and what we can do about it.

youtube.com/watch?v=LqelpONZvp

YouTubeThe Stupidity Epidemic: Why Critical Thinking is DyingBy Simply Resilient Me
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"We must stop giving AI human traits. My first interaction with GPT-3 rather seriously annoyed me. It pretended to be a person. It said it had feelings, ambitions, even consciousness.

That’s no longer the default behaviour, thankfully. But the style of interaction — the eerily natural flow of conversation — remains intact. And that, too, is convincing. Too convincing.

We need to de-anthropomorphise AI. Now. Strip it of its human mask. This should be easy. Companies could remove all reference to emotion, judgement or cognitive processing on the part of the AI. In particular, it should respond factually without ever saying “I”, or “I feel that”… or “I am curious”.

Will it happen? I doubt it. It reminds me of another warning we’ve ignored for over 20 years: “We need to cut CO₂ emissions.” Look where that got us. But we must warn big tech companies of the dangers associated with the humanisation of AIs. They are unlikely to play ball, but they should, especially if they are serious about developing more ethical AIs.

For now, this is what I do (because I too often get this eerie feeling that I am talking to a synthetic human when using ChatGPT or Claude): I instruct my AI not to address me by name. I ask it to call itself AI, to speak in the third person, and to avoid emotional or cognitive terms.

If I am using voice chat, I ask the AI to use a flat prosody and speak a bit like a robot. It is actually quite fun and keeps us both in our comfort zone."

theconversation.com/we-need-to

The ConversationWe need to stop pretending AI is intelligent – here’s how
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#AI#GenerativeAI#LLMs
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#Britain said on Sunday 2 of its fighter jets had intercepted #Russia aircraft over the #BalticSea close to #NATO alliance airspace in separate incidents on Tuesday & Thursday.

The Typhoon fighters were scrambled to intercept a Russian Ilyushin Il-20M "Coot-A" #intelligence aircraft on Tuesday, Britain's Ministry of Defence said in a statement.

2 day later, 2 Typhoons intercepted an unknown aircraft leaving Kaliningrad air space, it said.

#geopolitics
reuters.com/world/europe/brita

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