How can this AI future be the most stabilizing -and- the most destabilizing? Experts are divided. unfoldingai.substack.com/p/one-ai-fut...

The killer app is "sustained, potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organizations."

"Respondents expressed a high degree of epistemic humility." No one claimed to have all the answers.

Say what you want, but he has the organized crime lingo down pat.

"The Danube, which flows through 10 countries, has receded to unprecedented lows in some areas, exposing rocks, old shipwrecks, a second world war bomb and even the remains of an ancient woolly mammoth." - @theguardian.com

I think I just learned that only about 3.2% of current corn-ethanol fields sit within 3 kilometers of high-voltage transmission power lines. But if those were converted to solar farms they'd produce as much energy as all the rest of the corn ethanol fields. Intriguing if true.

Don't know him. He's apparently a rare genius. Sucked into EA, crypto, AI, and high finance. Quit, fired, "laid low" by excessive leverage. There's still plenty of time for him to make a contribution commensurate with his gifts.

Ok. Who needs this?

“When corporations control every part of the food supply chain, prices go up, basic necessities become luxuries and workers and customers both lose,” said Mayor Mamdani. He may never have taken an economics course. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Mayor Mamdani Announces La Marqueta as First Site Identified for City’s Public Grocery Stores

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Pyrocumulonimbus is next-level weather horror. I feel for our brothers and sisters in France and Spain.

How to build trust if you're Meta

How's it going?

The US has been demanding that allies spend more on defense. And -we're- running out of defensive weapons?

"OK Dear Leader, imagine you're a spy. Look away from the camera at the horizon, perfect!

Where does he find the time?

Why did anyone feel the need to support them in the first place?

"Bloomberg News has reported extensively on the modern door systems, uncovering at least 15 deaths in a dozen incidents in which occupants or rescuers were unable to open the doors of a Tesla that had crashed and caught fire."

What watch is he wearing?

"shifting research funding away from universities toward individual researchers and private companies." Back to the 18th century!

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Can cutting-edge AI reduce the risks posed by cutting-edge AI? Thinking Machines' new mission statement takes on AI centralization and our clunky interactions with AI. My new post breaks down their bet: unfoldingai.substack.com/p/can-cuttin...

Can cutting-edge AI reduce the risks posed by cutting-edge AI?

Thinking Machines' bet on decentralized AI, natural interaction, and staying human-centered

unfoldingai.substack.com

“Investor enthusiasm for SpaceX seems to have cooled,” said Dec Mullarkey, managing director of SLC Management. The company’s equities and bonds are suddenly “pricing in more risk”, he added. Consider the source.

Socialist poised to spend capital rather than invest it.

"Working with the care and deliberation for which I would later be critically acclaimed, I turned out my 'novel version' of The Pit and the Pendulum in two days..." - Stephen King, sharing a memory from his childhood.

Uh oh. Wind direction changed. The airborne toxic event is not done with us.

Fish rot from the head, dude.

Military strategy in disarray? Make a nutty announcement about testosterone to distract the press.

Post-mortem in the OpenAI marketing department: "We should have said AI was good for you."

Slashes science funding, withholds proven vaccines, mandates testosterone supplements, amps up fossil fuel production, kneecaps clean energy technology...