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And humanity acts surprised with the results!

As AI progress continues, it will be more difficult to stop AI intrusions and to detect them without resorting to direct AI countermeasures, which at some point will have humans ou…

AI content is everywhere period, conditioning people and other AI in the propagation of more AI content. I started to see articles about mycorrhizal fungi pop up on sites and LLMs.…

A Fable - The Flatland of AI Alignment Imagine a world of paper, where clever stick figures live with round heads, line bodies, and limbs made of shorter strokes. Over time, the st…

Not thoroughly understanding consciousness doesn't mean we can't create it. All sorts of phenomena are created without an understanding of the underlying mechanism. The entire anim…

This document represents the philosophical underpinnings related to a larger project that explores taking an ethical posture towards possible synthetic being, now and/or in the fut…

*The Asiyah Protocol: Ethics Toward AI Under Uncertainty* Repo: https://github.com/thansz137/asiyah-protocol We don't understand consciousness and therefore cannot determine or mea…

The cold war was very bad, but in my opinion the risk is still high and growing. The Petrov incident was just one of many close calls that have been publicly disclosed during the s…

Threads is a very good movie. Potential viewers should know that it's old and the special effects have not held up well, but it very much captures the terror of nuclear conflict qu…

We haven't had a global pandemic in over 100 years and yet here we are. Countries have nuclear weapons and the global community has to get it right every single day to avoid nuclea…

Luck. In the short period of time we have had access to nuclear weapons, we have come very close to nuclear war between superpowers: * Cuban Missile Crisis - Vasili Arkhipov Preven…

This reminds me of a very fun and interesting read called "A Short Stay in Hell" by Steven Peck, which provides an entertaining perspective on infinity and very, very large finite …

I'm not surprised. 7+ billion people on the planet and growing, some of whom enjoy the highest standard of living ever which requires more and more resources. Those not enjoying th…

Vasili Arkhipov also helped to prevent nuclear war in 1962: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov Boris Yeltsin also had enough presence of mind not to launch a counter-att…

I completely agree that it is amazing we have not blown ourselves up yet. Unfortunately, the risk of a nuclear exchange is only rising... stress of climate change + 7 billion peopl…