#ThinkSlow #ActFast

“I worry that we won't politically accept extreme confinement measures until we've hit a terrifying number of serious cases & deaths

Perhaps once 100,000 people have died…”

@ProfSteveKeen #COVID19 #Exponential #Contagion #Pandemic

patreon.com/posts/34547040 “as many as eight in 10 Britons could become infected and the virus could kill around one percent of those infected”

Conclusion: friends are going to die; people will be angry; ministers may fall

#EndOfDays

@10DowningStreet @NHSuk @MattHancock

express.co.uk/news/world/125…

Listening to @RobWortham, University of Bath on:

#AI #Robotics #Anthropomorphism and #Ethics

“We can now build robots that look as though they care - but it’s a synthetic version of caring and it may well be manipulating us”

// HT Luke P @RadleyKSocial

robwortham.com “We have Palaeolithic #Emotions, Medieval #Institutions and god-like #Technology

And it is terrifically dangerous”

- EO Wilson

It can be hard to curate a discussion with the incomparable @ClarkeMicah because he often replies by Retweet and Comment...

But the core thread was fun - and complex (which may encourage you to click through on individual tweets) - so here goes:

https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1147854837633159169

Expanding the #HertzsprungRussell diagram courtesy of @xkcdComic

#Physics #Astronomy #Cosmology

Step 1: Take an HR Diagram Expanding the #HertzsprungRussell diagram courtesy of @xkcdComic

#Physics #Astronomy #Cosmology

Step 2: Add a Scale