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"#Manus, the viral AI #agentplatform from Chinese startup #ButterflyEffect, has had an unintended side effect: raising the profile of another #AItool called #BrowserUse.
Browser Use, which aims to make websites more accessible for agentic applications that perform tasks on a user’s behalf, has experienced explosive growth in the past week. Daily downloads more than quintupled from around 5,000 on March 3 to 28,000 on March 10, co-creator Gregor Zunic told TechCrunch.@

techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/brow

TechCrunch · Browser Use, one of the tools powering Manus, is also going viral | TechCrunchThe virality of AI 'agent' platform Manus from Chinese startup Butterfly Effect has benefitted another tool: Browser Use.

i wonder if it's possible to make a video game that would teach kids the intuition behind the "butterfly effect" by making each subsequent level's initial conditions determined by the outcome of the previous level, in such a way that the gameplay would guide you towards understanding that tiny decisions made on the first level will have huge consequences on level two, etc. #chaos #butterflyEffect #chaosTheory #deterministic #systems #nonlinear #differentialEquations #bifurcation cc @JamesGleick

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@stib @conditional_soup @arstechnica

#ClimateChange
new #CarbonSinks
natural #CarbonCapture

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...of view, any such prospective change (#e.g. #reforestation) will involve a #ChaoticSystem. These are sensitively dependent on initial conditions, something better known as the #ButterflyEffect.

So, as your example shows, by trying to "fix" the #climate we might actually be making things even worse.

I'm not a biologist or climatologist, but there are seem...

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en.wikipedia.orgChaos theory - Wikipedia
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The network effect of humanity is that when one person lies, another has to compete in a bigger lie. #CelebrationOfIgnorance and network effects, competition to deceive others. It's not accidental, it isn't a mental breakdown to be a liar, it is institutionalized in military the world over.

People insert lies deliberately into WikiPedia, a #TragedyOfTheCommons, and books are full of lies by teachers who lie and deceive. One liar has a world wide #ButterflyEffect and drags down all of humanity, even generations in the future, as the lies get recorded on media and passed down. #MediaEcology #CultOfIgnorance