Ronen Tamari

214 trust founder @ronentk.me · 3,439 followers
Researcher & entrepreneur | Co-founder @cosmik.network | Building @semble.so | collective sensemaking | https://ronentk.me/ | Ecosystem building @atproto.science @cairos.network | Prev- Open Science Fellow @asterainstitute.bsky.social

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US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Wired reviewed over 1,000 pages of unpublished DHS, FBI, and fusion-center reports coalescing around a new label called 'anti-tech extremism.'
  • A Delaware Valley fusion-center bulletin flagged AI data centers as extremist targets while conceding it had no specific plots or suspects.
  • The term 'anti-technology violent extremism' does not appear in any publicly available DHS or FBI extremism documents, per Wired's review.
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"As writers and thinkers like Ted Chiang and Hagen Blix have pointed out, fear and anger at AI are often best understood as fear and anger at how AI will function within capitalism"

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How to create reading experiences that "go beyond information transmission and toward reader transformation.” Great paper by @blue-phia.bsky.social @lepidopterane.bsky.social @yijunliu.bsky.social Sarah Sterman @sh1m.bsky.social @maxkreminski.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.043…

Creative Reading: Scaffolding Reading for Transformation arxiv.org
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Researchers argue AI reading tools implicitly frame reading as information transmission, or 'reading to discard.'
  • The paper maps reading augmentation onto two axes: transmission vs. transformation, and substituting vs. scaffolding.
  • The concept of 'orienteering' argues readers benefit from moving through interpretive spaces rather than receiving direct answers.
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"the human mind is afforded less complexity than is owed, and the computer is afforded more wisdom than is due" arxiv.org/abs/2107.14042

The brain is a computer is a brain: neuroscience's internal debate and the social significance of the Computational Metaphor arxiv.org
AI Weekly's analysis
  • The essay by Alexis T. Baria and Keith Cross argues the brain-computer metaphor is the most prominent in both neuroscience and AI.
  • The authors say debate about the metaphor's scientific utility has crowded out the question of its social implications.
  • They contend the term 'artificial intelligence' is misplaced and that a new lexicon is needed for these computational systems.
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Ronen Tamari reposted
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com

📣 🚨 🪩 I'm delighted to announce "Funding The Web: a covenant for browsers, search, and people", new work from yours truly generously supported by D//F: ftw.fund. It's a complicated topic but it only impacts the whole web, so please bear with me a little! 🧵

Funding The Web: A Wise Choice ftw.fund View on Bluesky →

"The truly visionary AI for Science company is not automating experiments or AI-generating Nature papers, but building technology to improve the collective sensemaking ability of scientists @cosmik.network and alphaXiv are both examples of startups trying to build new sensemak…

Science as Collective Sensemaking republicofscience.substack.com
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Recent commentary

Curious convergences between social network protocols, AI and research infrastructure - what if we we combined them all together?

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