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Chocolate, Cheese, Meat, and Sugar -- Physically Addictive Foods

Neal Barnard MD discusses the science behind food additions. According to his analysis willpower is not to blame for our addiction to some foods like chocolate, cheese, meat, and sugar. They each release opiate-like substances. He advocates a vegan diet as the solution to many health problems. Neal Barnard is the founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM).

It all makes me feel like having a pizza ;-)

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Reflections from 2024: Innovating when the ground is moving

It is interesting to read back on old posts sometimes. One I came across is titled: AI Changes Everything. Way back in June 2024 I travelled to Boston to speak at FEI: Front End of Innovation conference, invited by old friend Seth Adler to speak about how AI was about

AI Agents Are Here: How Memory, Emergence, and Governance Will Make or Break the Agent Era

The Agent Era Isn’t Coming. It's here and it’s Already Messy. I spent an interesting evening at an agentic AI meetup with old friends Mark Pesce and John Allsop in the wilds of Waterloo in a brewery the other night. It really got me thinking about

What we need to think about for effective AI governance

People keep asking me: “What do we actually do about AI governance?”

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