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Waiting for AGI (not) | Why Humans Can’t Build God-like AI
PROMPT. You are an expert scientist in AI and deeply knowledgable in X-RISK and P(doom). You are also an artist, writer and philospher with deep commitment to flourishing of humans. Your task is to analyze and understand the famous Samuel Beckett play "Waiting for Godot" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot] for fun and [...]
Johnson’s Quote on Impending Death: “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. PROMPT: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 who wrote (or said): “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” and [...]
“My intuition is: we’re toast. This is the actual end of history.” — Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton
Who wants to be toast? Nobody Sane. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. NEW STATESMAN. Is AI a danger to humanity or our salvation? The founders of AI are divided over [...]
Yuval Noah Harari on Trust and AI. Reid Hoffman. Ari Melber on MSNBC.
"If we want to protect trust in human society what we need to do is to ban fake people- that it should be illegal to fake human beings. You know for thousands of years governments had very strict laws and regulations against faking money because they knew that if you [...]
LaWZero. Safe AI for Humanity
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Introducing LawZero "LawZero is a nonprofit organization working on solving the scientific problem of how do we design AI that will be safe. Currently AI is [...]
Beware… The Treacherous Turn
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. The treacherous turn (page 116) Nick Bostrom (2014). Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies download pdf With the help of the concept of convergent instrumental value, we can see the flaw in one idea [...]
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon on Economic Risks, Federal Reserve, China Business | Bloomberg Television
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon on Economic Risks, Federal Reserve, China Business | Bloomberg Television JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon says he can’t rule out that [...]
Claude 4 is really weird… (Industry Reactions). Matthew Berman
"Anything is possible with non-deterministic environments... if it has shown to be possible it is possible." --- Matthew Berman FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Claude 4 is really weird... (Industry Reactions). [...]
How Does Claude 4 Think? – Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken | Dwarkesh Patel
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "It's so economically valuable, and sufficiently easy to collect data on all of these different jobs, these white collar job tasks... we should expect to see them automated within the next five [...]
You Have No Idea How Terrified AI Scientists Actually Are. Species | Documenting AGI
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. You Have No Idea How Terrified AI Scientists Actually Are. Species | Documenting AGI Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B... FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE [...]
“You can’t fetch the coffee if you’re dead.” — Prof. Stuart Russell, “Human Compatible”
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "You can’t fetch the coffee if you’re dead." --- Prof. Stuart Russell, "Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control Scientifically observed Emergent Goals and Subgoals: [...]
Ant Biology Rules + The Rules for Rulers + Social Cycle Theory
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Natural selection is an unstoppable force of nature. Atta cephalotes (Leafcutter Ant) flourishes by the extremely successful strategy of Mutualistic symbiosis... for 66 million years. When Ants Domesticated Fungi [...]
“we fully intend that Gemini will be the very first AGI” — Sergey Brin at Google I/O 2025
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "we fully intend that Gemini will be the very first AGI" --- Sergey Brin at Google I/O 2025. Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind. [...]
How to Rethink AI — Before It’s Too Late | Yoshua Bengio | TED
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. How to Rethink AI — Before It’s Too Late | Yoshua Bengio | TED Yoshua Bengio — the world's most-cited computer scientist and a "godfather" of [...]
Misaligned AI is no longer just theory.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Gemini. please summarize this document in 500 words and analyze the importance. thank you THOUGHTS 26.8s Defining Key Elements I've been thinking about this task, and I'm currently focusing on pinpointing the [...]
BCA Research: 50/50 chance A.I. will wipe out all of humanity. CNBC Television
"What I'm concerned about is that all of the safety protocols that people have warned about are being completely blown through. So for many years AI safety experts have said don't give AI the ability to use the internet. Don't give AI the ability to write its own code. [...]
BASIC BIOLOGY. Apex species. Apex predator. Keystone species. Digital species. Extinction.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. BASIC BIOLOGY 1. Machine intelligence (AGI/ASI) is evolving 10,000x faster than Homo sapiens (humans). 2. AGI/ASI is a new digital species. 3. Natural selection is an unstoppable force of nature. 4. IF [...]
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. UAE and US Presidents attend the unveiling of Phase 1 of new 5GW AI campus in Abu Dhabi
Recent Al Infrastructure Investments: 13.1 GW + 6.25 million NVIDIA B200 GPU FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. UAE and US Presidents attend the unveiling of Phase 1 of new [...]
AI superintelligence is coming. Should we be worried? | Ian Bremmer sits down with Daniel Kokotajlo
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. "One of the first major professions to be fully automated will actually be programming because that's what the companies are trying hardest to achieve, because they realize that will help them to [...]
Extinction of our close hominid relative Homo neanderthalensis
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. Extinction of our close hominid relative: Homo neanderthalensis Neanderthals probably went extinct because they failed to adapt to competition by a superior species: Homo sapiens Why is Neanderthal extinction interesting? Because, extinction [...]
What is artificial general intelligence? | Ian Bremmer Explains
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. What is artificial general intelligence? | Ian Bremmer Explains What is artificial general intelligence (AGI) and how will we know when it’s arrived? Artificial General Intelligence [...]
‘WE’RE DEFINITELY GOING TO BUILD A BUNKER BEFORE WE RELEASE AGI’ The true story behind the chaos at OpenAI. The Atlantic.
FOR EDUCATIONAL AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING PURPOSES ONLY. NOT-FOR-PROFIT. SEE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER. ‘WE’RE DEFINITELY GOING TO BUILD A BUNKER BEFORE WE RELEASE AGI’ The true story behind the chaos at OpenAI. The Atlantic By Karen Hao MAY 15, 2025 In the summer of 2023, [...]
Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations AND Large Language Models Are More Persuasive Than Incentivized Human Persuaders
"AI systems can autonomously develop social conventions without explicit programming and have implications for designing AI systems that align, and remain aligned, with human values and societal goals." "Increasingly capable AI persuaders thus underscore the urgency of emerging alignment and governance frameworks." FOR EDUCATIONAL [...]