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With the comparison I was not thinking of the hard singularity scenario. I am thinking about how various groups of people will surely...

... and especially with the new wars and [potentially (but perhaps not as of yet) uncontrollable] conflicts seen after 2022 up to today...

Of all the major AI companies, Anthropic seems to be the most concerned about safety and the one doing the most to study alignment...

Here's a pithy quote from the Anthropic paper: "Training runs are far easier to conceal than missile silos"

I for one, welcome our Argentinian overlords.

I posted a link to Project AI 2027, which gives a much nearer prediction for the attainment of ASI. It gives a plausible scenario for...

The people whose finger is on the power switch either explicitly hate humanity or say things such as "what about China", so I'm not very...

A while back ( 10 years or so ) someone told me their child had to delete their account on Facebook due to being under 16, maybe under...

Here is a representations of 2 spheres, one 9% larger in volume than the other due to phase change of water from liquid to solid.

One can calculate the radial increase from the volume boost due to the phase change. For a container of stretchy material that expands...

Here's a focus problem: I have a spherical shell of low density polyethylene of inner radius 10 cm and outer radius 10.1 cm. The shell...

And others have lost their shirt on failed stock purchases. Movement from one grouping to another is not disallowed for any one...

This is off-topic, so I won't dwell on it too much. Standard textbooks have often stated that ice skating functions because the...

Very good questions I must admit, and not without merit. One would tend to think that the 'pressure' of the ice would shrink the bubble...

Isn't that where light bends when passing from one medium to the next?