The existential risk stuff was baked into the Effective Altruism movement from the beginning, founder William MacAskill was a student of co-founder Toby Orb who in turn was a student of Nick Bostrom, who established x-risk research as a field in academia. Orb and Bostrom both now work at Future of Humanity institute, an institution dedicated to the species' long term future, and it's mostly concerned with x-risk research. Both Ord and Bostrom are frequently cited in EA writings, with book clubs being organized around Ord's doomsday warning for popular reading The Precipice. Bostrom and Eliezer Yudkowsky knew each other from their early transhumanism roots, and some of the early EA community organizing was done through his LessWrong forum. That and the establishment and funding of both EA and Rationalist orgs in Berkeley by philanthropists associated with both causes, primarily Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, seems to explain the overlap between those communities (fun fact: the Effective Altruism online forum runs the same custom software as LessWrong). And of course Eliezer has dedicated his career to funding AI x-risk institutions.
It’s definitely not true because mushrooms are a type of multicellular fungi and the animal and fungal branches of life split off long before multicellularity arose.
Sorry I don’t know any store apps for such, my only experience is through personal corespondance/demos with/by developers experimenting with the hardware feature and sdk. Quick googling turns up some contenders but I can’t vouch for them:
It generates nerfs (which have some advantages as well as disadvantages depending on application) but Luma AI is arguably SotA for photogrammetry on iPhones.
His goal is artificial general intelligence, something that seemed to grab his attention after he was already actively working on VR. My guess is that when he started teaching himself machine learning, he realized that he needed to focus all his attention on it if he was going to take it seriously. Facebook's failings just accelerated this for him.
I think the truth is that VR is there. They've sold lots of headsets and people who love it, really love it. Expecting it to sell at iPhone levels was never going to happen.
So by "there" you mean that the tech is good enough to provide a good experience, and so they've basically plateaued? That's my guess too. I rented a Quest for a couple of weeks and it was pretty neat. It just didn't fill any needs we actually had. I was thinking of it as a try-before-I-buy situation, but when I sent it back at the end of the two weeks, nobody cared. The kids were already back on their Switches and the Playstation for gaming.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I mean. They aren't some new thing that either has to launch into orbit or crash and burn. The likely path is in between.
VR headsets have improved immensely since I first tried it in 1991 (Dactyl Nightmare) and I suspect they will keep improving. Where we are at today is not necessarily a plateau but it might feel like one if you were expecting a growth curve that looks like a hockey stick.
From that quote it isn't clear precisely how Mr. Bankman was involved with his son's firm, how much he was an insider, particularly in the later days as the fraud presumably intensified. It's plausible that SBF, digging himself deeper in fraud while getting high on his own supply, insulated his law professor father from the seedier proceedings at his darling company. Probably will take the courts to determine the apple's proximity to the tree.
> In training, we had been briefed on how to sound like Brenda [The AI Chatbot]. Brenda was chipper and casual, but professionally guarded. She was female and most certainly white, though no one had explicitly told us so. She said things like Sounds great!, Perfect!, and Sorry to hear that. She always brought the conversation back around to real estate.
> Once, a shift supervisor told me that a good tactic in these situations was to lean into Brenda’s robotic qualities. A little strategic obtuseness went a long way, and if the tenant still wouldn’t let up, I could start to repeat myself on a loop.
Reminds me of how Baudrillard said the simulation of the world will come to blend and replace the real one until the distinction loses all meaning.
I will never be able to talk to a call agent again and not consider the origins of their turns of phrase.
> surround the reaction chamber with molten FLiBe or lead-lithium
So manufacturing fusion reactors would use a lot of lithium, which is already in short supply. That would be an interesting complication with the demand of lithium for electric vehicle batteries. Maybe the Li supply situation will be eased by then.
The quantity of lithium required is miniscule, but would require a fair bit of enrichment to eliminate the Li-6. The limiting resource is the inner wall for which no known material other than double the annual world production beryllium is even close to sufficient
Actually, that 2020 report[0] does mention diabetes:
>Overall, a growing body of evidence supports the nine potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia modelled by the 2017 Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care: less education, hypertension, hearing impairment, smoking, obesity, depression, physical inactivity, diabetes, and low social contact.
