This perfectly fits some people’s doomsday death cult philosophies. “The nations of men” are supposed to unite against God’s chosen people or some shit like that. Religion really is the gift that keeps on giving, particularly the abrahamic faiths.
Kinda reminds me of a brief disagreement. The article does say that this may be “vastly overestimating the amount of dual-use research”, because “we don’t know what the national security concerns are that caused an application to be flagged. That is the definition may be too vague.
First and foremost I can suggest meditation. You don’t have to personally save the world, do what you can when you can and that’s enough, honestly more than enough. I can suggest figures like Pema Chodron and Ram Dass, they’ve been extremely helpful for me in extreme moments of life. I think Pema’s book Welcoming the Unwelcomed is pure gold.
Also don’t mind taking a break from it all. The world will keep on ticking. One day the sun will run out of fuel and vaporize the earth, one day the last star will go dark, one day the last black hole will evaporate. Nothing is forever besides change. That’s not to say it’s all pointless, more so to say enjoy it and if you can even enjoy the unpleasant things along with the pleasant ones.
Left home with nothing but the clothes on my back. Thankfully my HS girlfriend and her parents let me stay with them. Had to buy clothes with the $400 I had and was riding my bike to my minimum wage job. It was simple times but good times.
Yeah Putin wants those massive natural gas deposits and so does Ukraine. There’s not much of a deal to be made.
If you’re technically inclined you could support some free and open source software project.
This is a whole new level of botnet. Enslave people’s AI. Would be useful if you’re trying to distill the model.
The US would never, has never done such a thing.
Red is blue and parallel lines on a flat plane intersect.
Actually now that it’s being brought up it would be interesting to see the allotment of funds and compute in relationship to types of neural nets. I really can’t confirm or deny what you are saying. That said different labs seem to have taken different approaches.
Yes and no. Some extremely impressive things have been accomplished already. Alpha fold was very successful just to name one smaller and older project. The recent proof of the planar unit distance problem is very notable. The list goes on and on. There’s some legitimate gold in those neural network hills, it’s just not consistent.
I’m not sure it’s clean and easy like that. A rose by any other name smells just as sweet. I see it more like a classic battle between two very similar yet different individuals over ultimate legitimacy, like the fight between Romulus and Remus, although this will likely have a different ending.
If all this data center building and investment is a bust aka their next super model doesn’t deliver on all the promises they’ve made it’s going to make the 2008 financial crisis look cute.
Scared they’re totally leveraged and people will call their bluff before their super compute is built or the super compute will have diminished returns aka the investment is a wash. If this goes bust it will make the 2008 global financial crisis look cute.
The fun part about language is we can say things and it doesn’t mean it’s true or even logically consistent.
The political and cultural history of mainland China and Taiwan is really interesting. It’s easy to say they just want their fabs but I feel like the struggle is more so about legacy. The CCP gaining control over Taiwan would indicate they are the one and only true China spiritually and philosophically at least to themselves. It’s a fundamental split and both consider themselves the real or true China.
It seems the issues brought up can be broken down into two lines from the article
the community needs to figure out how to use A.I. “in a way that will maintain human understanding of the mathematics.”
A.I.- generated papers and proofs that have turned out to be incorrect, and in ways that are difficult for mathematicians to discern.
The latter of which is plaguing software developers already who are spending more time debugging vibe code than it would take to write code themselves. The former is more intriguing though in that it would signal glimpses of super intelligence aka cognitive powers beyond top tier experts in a field. Definitely should encourage us all to solve the control problem although major AI labs across the global have seemingly thrown caution Into the wind to solve the funding / cash flow problem first.
Yeah that’s what the large hadron collider is for, everyone knows that.
I wanted to research it myself since I didn’t know how Redbox flow batteries operate. It is two giant tanks of liquid energy. When there’s extra electricity from wind or solar, pumps move special vanadium-based liquids through a stack of cells, storing that energy as a chemical change. When electricity is needed later, the process runs in reverse and the liquids generate power for the grid. Unlike lithium batteries, the energy is stored in the liquid tanks, so making the battery bigger is mostly a matter of building larger tanks. The Swiss project will store about 2.1 GWh of energy—enough to help balance renewable power on a massive scale—and was chosen partly because redox-flow batteries are non-flammable, long-lasting, and can be cycled tens of thousands of times with little degradation
Cool, also the Atlantic thermohaline belt has been weakening and is projected to fully collapse in as little as four years in the known worst case. Generally though there’s not enough data or funding. Link.
At minimum this would be really bad and worse case this could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and tosses us fully into a biosphere collapse aka the apocalypse.
Good thing we’re slowing efforts to deal with climate change, and defending science into how absolutely fucked we are.