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notboring.co
Weekly Dose of Optimism #194

The current paradigm, in which human civilization is confined to one planet, exposes humanity to existential threats that are unpredictable and uncontrollable on a planetary scale. By moving beyond the only home we have ever known, we ensure species-level redundancy and that the light of consciousness will not be tied to a single planet subject to the inevitable hazards of a harsh and vast universe.

— Packy McCormick
3w ago

We are now at a point where we must decide whether we are to have a future on this planet, not because of the atomic bomb, but because of the way we have treated the world.

1mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents; we have invented the machine, and now the machine is reinventing us. We must learn to think in a new way, or perish.

1mo ago

We are dying from civilisation and its discontents. The machine has possessed us, and we must either master it or perish.

1mo ago
platformer.news
Why Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts rattled

Given the rate of AI progress, it will not be long before such capabilities proliferate, potentially beyond actors who are committed to deploying them safely. The fallout — for economies, public safety, and national security — could be severe.

2mo ago
noahpinion.blog
AI has the worst sales pitch I've ever seen

Why on Earth would you make something that you thought had a 25% chance of wiping out your entire species? Or even a 5% chance? I don't know about you, but to me that sounds like a pretty stupid thing to do!

2mo ago
noahpinion.blog
If AI is a weapon, why don't we regulate it like one?

Like almost everyone in the AI model-making industry, Anthropic's employees believe that they are literally creating a god, and that this god will come into its full existence sooner rather than later.

3mo ago

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