for - article - Techradar - Top AI researcher says AI will end humanity and we should stop developing it now — but don't worry, Elon Musk disagrees - 2024, April 7 - AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy disagrees with industry leaders and claims 99.999999% chance that AGI will destroy and embed humanity // - comment - another article whose heading is backwards - it was Musk who spoke it first, then AI safety expert Roman Yampolskiy commented on Musk's claim afterwards!

for - progress trap - AI superintelligence - interview - AI safety researcher and director of the Cyber Security Laboratory at the University of Louisville - Roman Yampolskiy - progress trap - over 99% chance AI superintelligence arriving as early as 2027 will destroy humanity - article UofL - Q&A: UofL AI safety expert says artificial superintelligence could harm humanity - 2024, July 15

0:50 "this is your last chance to change course"<br /> nah mate, youre spreading false hopes, cos you wanna be stupid and happy.<br /> you dont even believe in overpopulation, cos thats too "negative"...

for - key insight - Russian oppression - zero chance of protest and uprising

key insight - Russian oppression - zero chance of protest and uprising - Putin is so ruthless as a dictator that anyone who protests risks death. - Under these conditions, noone dares to organize - If there is a synchronized movement, Putin can be overthrown, but Putin's brutality insures that no such synchronization can happen

to - Jake Broe interview - Russian citizen complacency - like German citizens allowing millions of Jews to die - https://hyp.is/sXpZth5fEe-Xtj_-DhT_BQ/docdrop.org/video/XX3zU5QNvCw/

for - key insight - living systems use chance to adapt

key insight - living systems use chance to adapt - immune system defends against novel viruses - cancers grow - bacteria become resistant to antibiotics

• for: 1.5 Deg C target - 50/50 chance

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  • What most people don't recognize and pay attention to is 50/50 chance that is part of the 1.5 Deg C target.
  • The world is up in arms about the 1.5 Deg C target when it ONLY GIVES US A 50/50 CHANCE!
  • These are not great odds! In fact, THESE ODDS ARE TERRIBLE! What if you were given those chances in your cancer treatment? You would be concerned, wouldn't you?
  • So what would an intervention closer to 90% chance of staying under 1.5 Deg C look like? If people consider today's intervention impossible, then a 90% chance would be beyond impossible. This is the nature of the challenge we face!

• for: do people know? - 50% chance, 1.5 Deg. C target - is still a crap shoot

• new trailmark: do people know?

• do people know?: 50% chance

  • the well known 1.5 Deg C. target, which currently seems almost impossible to achieve, is still a crap shoot! There is a 50% chance that if be we achieve it, we can still trigger very harmful impacts like tipping points

Finally, a culture that rewards big personal accomplishments over smaller social ones threatens to create a cohort of narcissists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoric_music

How does idea density influence the rate of creativity?

What are the thermodynamics of creativity? I've probably got enough material for a significant book chapter if not perhaps a book on this topic.

May need a more public friendly name. Burning Creativity?

Claude Lévi-Strauss had a note taking practice in which he accumulated notes of ideas on the fly, summaries of what he read, references, and quotations. He kept them on cards which he would keep in a pigeonhole. When planning a project, he would pull them out and use them to "revive [his] failing memory."

Questions: - Did his system have any internal linkages? - How big was his system? (Manageable, unmanageable?) - Was it only used for memory, or was it also used for creativity? - Did the combinatorial reshufflings of his cards provide inspiration a la the Llullan arts?

Link this to the ideas of Raymond Llull's combinatorial arts.

Howard, J. (2022, January 21). Covid-19 vaccinations do not impair fertility in men or women, new study finds—CNN. CNN Health. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/20/health/covid-vaccine-fertility-study/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2022-01-21T00%3A08%3A17

My daughter will be brought up to understand her true value. That’s a promise. As for all the little girls to be born around the world, the creation of these ads is an effort to show how imagination can change the conversation around their lives.

This is important to remember because even when we think it might be too late to reach out to someone or that someone's opinions are too different from our own for them to listen--there's still a chance. There's still a chance for learning about each other. A chance to see a new perspective. Maybe even a chance that will change your own opinions. So give someone a chance, you never know what it could lead to or what it could mean, but what do you have to lose?