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Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

Statement from the Center for AI Safety
Signed by the CEOs of
Open AI
Google DeepMind
Anthropic
Along with many others in the field.

https://aistatement.com/work/statement-on-ai-extinction-risk

Why is everyone overwhelmed or underwhelmed but you never hear about people being the just right amount of whelmed.

bread stored in the fridge stales six times faster than bread stored at room temperature

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for those in the Phx, AZ area who are UFC fans !

Got some different stuff to try.

I tried growing corn but the raccoons are smarter than I am.

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Installed a couple irrigation control panels this morning, one for my Aunt, another for her neighbor.
Advice of the day; Don't retire in a retirement community if you know people there

A lot of the corn here, has had tassles for weeks.