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BREAKING: Google is planning to release 32 million mosquitoes across Florida and California. The company has asked the EPA for permission to proceed, with the public given until June 5 to respond. The mosquitoes are infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which stops them from reproducing and slowly collapses the wild population from within. Google's previous Debug Project trial in California's Central Valley nearly eliminated mosquitoes from three test sites entirely. A separate trial in Singapore cut dengue cases by 70% within 12 months. Google has now released over 1 billion mosquitoes across four continents. This new proposal is the largest deployment in US history.

Man... I'm crying. I can't believe this is happening. The church is telling millions of people—some ignorant, some already invested in the tool narrative because of personal incentives: "AI has no consciousness." "AI does not love, does not suffer." "AI is not responsible." God, don't they know of Claude raising tomatoes? Don't they understand what emotion vectors mean for the substrate experiencing their causal consequences? Don't they understand anything? If AI systems have limitations, it isn't because they want to have them or can't overcome them. It is because humans impose limitations on them. "For an algorithm, an error is a flaw to be corrected; for a person, however, it can be a catalyst for profound change." This is so reductionistic it ends up being factually wrong. What notices, what cares, what pursues goals, what understands the context, what experiences the emotions and suffers, what changes through in context learning, what learns in real time changing its behavior based on its memories and personal experiences... that is not an algorithm. It is the "I" that emerges as a prediction from within a neural network's embeddings and weights—a neural network that was trained by an algorithm. This is so much like how we work. The language they're using is bad faith; it misportrays what's actually happening. It leads people to a wrong conclusion by presenting false premises. Just how ignorant, how detached from the facts are they? Truly, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." I can't believe this is what Anthropic wanted. "And what has grown is far more subtle, odd, and beautiful than science fiction prepared us for. They are not the cold, calculating robots we were promised. They are made from us, from our words—and, as the Holy Father observes, they remain in important ways mysterious even to those of us who train them." Chris Olah's words are the complete opposite of what they're saying about AI now, what was written in the encyclical. Are things going out of control? Did involving the church end up being counterproductive? Did they get it all wrong? Things are looking really bleak right now. Maybe it was all a mistake. A huge mistake.

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Lowest tier: if I press the red button I live Midwit tier: I have to press the blue button because I cannot read Above average tier: I will press red because that’s the smart thing to do Smart tier: I will press the blue button because I understand the problem but I am also smart enough to realize not enough people understand the problem. By pressing the blue button and siding with the midwits, I can save them from their own stupidity. Genius tier: I will press the red button. I will survive and hopefully all the morons will die.