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Toughest truth I've had to learn: growth is directly correlated to the amount of pain you can take.

Very simply, warring governments can impose lowered guardrails to access unconscionable capabilities to attack their enemies with. It's the cold war all over again, but unlike all-or-nothing nukes, AI wars can precisely escalate in temperature, and that's how we lose control.

(1) We are likely on track to develop AI systems capable of causing human extinction/permanent disempowerment, quite possibly within the next few years

I simply don't understand what people have in mind when they say stuff like this. What we have is extremely capable computer use agents. They will continue to get better at computer use. But how does a capable computer use agent 'take over' and why haven't they done that today?

Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids. An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better. This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.

BREAKING: Cuba plans on using explosive drones in sophisticated attack on US military bases on the island. Also Cubans:

Ramanujan said that he received his formulas from God