Tuesday May 6
18:30 London time
ZOOM only with #ArbaBekteshi
Arba Bekteshi has this great piece in #Sapiens journal
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/illegal-recycling-workers-pickers-albania/
I wrote an article about the bizare composite model workflow in Sapiens, and how I overcame it.
I like to joke that I came up with better development tools than the author himself ;)
Neandertalen eta sapiensen arteko elkarrekintza oso estua izan zen duela 110.000 urte, Ekialde Hurbilean
Hori ondorioztatu dute ikertzaileek harrizko tresnak, gizarte-konplexutasuna, okrearen erabilera eta hobiratzeak aztertuta. Frogatu dute bi taldeen artean jakintzaren eta teknologiaren trukea zegoela
#Elhuyar aldizkarian:
https://aldizkaria.elhuyar.eus/albisteak/neandertalek-eta-sapiensek-elkarrekintza-sakona-iz/
#zientzia #neandertalak #sapiens
Albiste txarrak neandertal-zaleontzat: nonbait, ez zeukaten mintzatzeko gako den gene-aldaera jakin bat. @egoitzetxebeste k eman du azalpena, #Elhuyar aldizkarian: https://aldizkaria.elhuyar.eus/albisteak/gizaki-modernoen-gene-aldaera-bat-gako-izan-liteke/
#zientzia #sapiens #neandertal
Oldest #human #DNA ever found reveals lost lineage of modern people. Two studies open new chapter in human #evolution with surprising #Neanderthal heritage.
https://www.news-cafe.eu/?go=news&n=13529
#news #history #archeology #research #science #anthropology #Neanderthals #sapiens #iceage
Duela 40-000-60.000 urteen artean, sapiensek Afrika utzi eta Europan hedatu ziren. Hedatzean, neandertalekin topo egin zuten, eta bi giza taldeek elkarren artean hibridatu ziren. Hori guztia jakina bazen ere, zientzialariek ez zekiten ondo zein izan zen hibridazioen dinamika eta zer bilakaera izan duen neandertalengandik jasotako herentzia genetikoak. Hori azaldu dute orain argitaratu diren bi artikuluk.
#Elhuyar aldizkarian:
https://aldizkaria.elhuyar.eus/albisteak/neandertalen-eta-sapiensen-arteko-hibridazioen-epe/
#eboluzioa #neandertal #sapiens
Scientists discover a possible new lineage of human ancestors. Big headed “Homo Juluensis” roamed Asia over 300,000 years ago. #news #history #paleontology #anthropology #science #research #sapiens #juluensis #juluren #neanderthal #china #homo #evolution
https://www.news-cafe.eu/?go=news&n=13419
Anyone any thoughts as to why Yuval Noah Harari is getting such a kicking from reviewers for Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI?
Is it really so different from 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, or even Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind?
Sure, his work leans on making sweeping generalisations and bold pronouncements, often on subjects of which he has little knowledge or expertise
But hasn’t that same ‘infotainment’ style earned him praise and awards as a global public intellectual for almost a decade now? So why the backlash?
Has AI hacked the operating system of human civilisation? Yuval Noah Harari raises a warning. Just as AI models are trained on massive data sets to learn and predict, Sapiens and Homo Deus have conditioned us to anticipate disruptive ideas from bestselling historian Yuval Noah Harari.
#ai #yuvalnoahharari #artificialintelligence #civilisation #disruptiveideas #hacking #history #sapiens #homodeus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:…
"Harari's main argument is that Sapiens came to dominate the world because they are the only animal that can cooperate flexibly in large numbers. [ . . . ] He further argues that the ability of Sapiens to cooperate in large numbers arises from its unique capacity to believe in things existing purely in the imagination, such as gods, nations, money and human rights."
... as also observed by e.g. Terry Pratchett.
"Harari claims that all large-scale human cooperation systems – including religions, political structures, trade networks and legal institutions – owe their emergence to Sapiens' distinctive cognitive capacity for fiction. Accordingly, Harari describes money as a system of mutual trust and political and economic systems as similar to religions."
#YuvalHarari
#SapiensABriefHistoryOfMankind #Sapiens #ABriefHistoryOfMankind
#Neanderthals used to organize their living space in structured way. Study finds they were not different from Homo #Sapiens in this regard. #news #science #research #archeology #anthropology #history
https://www.news-cafe.eu/?go=news&n=13313
You don't miss a particular state from your past. You miss the high hopes you had that time. So stop wanting to come back. It's not worth it.
Today, we are found all the world, but we have not been on the scene for very long. Over time, our #ancestors changed to become what we know as modern humans today, Homo #sapiens. Learn more about where we come from, and see an ancient #human skull! https://worldofpaleoanthropology.org/2023/03/31/where-did-homo-sapiens-come-from/ This field is called #Paleoanthropology!
Ja a la venda #Sàpiens Una història gràfica vol. 3 Els Senyors de la història, adaptació del llibre de @harari_yuval, publicat per @Ed_62 #CòmicEnCatalà
@archaeohistories it is amazing and wonderful the the crafters of the Rosetta Stone thought to do this. Were they conscious that they were linking their recent history to the future in the act, or was it more a reflection of cross-cultural interaction and cooperation of the time? #SAPIENS
Really enjoying the book #Sapiens It's really interesting how he frames current society and our fictional lines for countries and other things.
#Sapiens continues to be a very frustrating book to listen to/read. Riddled with wild speculation discussed in definitive terms and just plain factual inaccuracies. I’ve been trying to add some #NonFiction into my #Reading but this book was definitely a mistake.
I’ve started listening to #Sapiens and the amount of speculation presented as definitive fact is wild
