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AI existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to inform policy
Learnings from a week in the wet lab — LessWrong

First They Built a Secular Apocalypse Belief System. Now They Want Religious Authority.

#13: A Timeline of the OpenAI Board

Effective Altruism Funded the “AI Existential Risk” Ecosystem with Half a Billion Dollars
Think tank tied to tech billionaires played key role in Biden’s AI order

Extreme Heat is Rapidly Decaying Teeth in Pakistan

The political economy of billionaire derangement
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A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books

Remotely Coerced Violence: 764, The Com Network, and the Hybridization of Threats - Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

The Corals That Shouldn’t Exist - bioGraphic

Elon Musk’s Race War Just Took Darker Turn—Time for a Global Response

The Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0

The sad decline of effective altruism

When Effective Altruism Takes a Dark Turn

Rationalist Cults of Silicon Valley
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OpenAI Employees Say Firm’s Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims

Sorry kid, drones are for war now
Agricultural drone rescues man from flooding in China

Drone Journalism Arrives
Drones and AI combine to help bring birds back from the brink

Burma Coup Resistance Notes | စီၤထံဆၢ | Substack

Детектор „Ванільний цукорок“
'It's Hard to Know if We'll Endure': Israel's Leading Philosopher on …

The Only Way Out Is Together – Spectre Journal

Why China Waits | Foreign Affairs

Militaries are drone-happy but populations are living in terror
The Longest Suicide Note in American History

Empire Suicide Watch | Herman Mark Schwartz

‘We feel that we were used’: Nonprofits after Chan Zuckerberg dropped social advocacy
Solutions Privilege: How privilege shapes the expectations of solutions, and why it’s bad for our work addressing systemic injustice

WFP cyber-attack: Is nearly all of Gaza’s population exposed?

The dark side of the hut, 50 years later
Kenya’s Health Deal Is a Stress Test for the America First Global Health Strategy
Time to end parachute science

As Ruskan heads to the ESPYs, the story of his Camp Mystic rescue has outrun the record – The Kerr County Lead
A year after deadly floods, Texas lawmakers haven’t addressed training for emergency coordinators
New evidence for Early Pleistocene use of fire at Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa)
History of Restaurant and Its Significance in Song Dynasty

Korea’s “Doughnut Dollies”

Kircher's Dragons
Internet History Sourcebooks: Medieval Sourcebook

Features - Rise of the Persian Princes - Archaeology Magazine - July/August 2023

Stow police officer accused of misusing Flock system to track former partner

WFP cyber-attack: Is nearly all of Gaza’s population exposed?
Kenya’s Health Deal Is a Stress Test for the America First Global Health Strategy

UK Biobank health data listed for sale in China, government confirms

Jerusalem's No Fly Zone - hagit keysar

A Digitized New Haven Police: Investigating Axon’s Draft One
Learnings from a week in the wet lab — LessWrong

Action Plan to increase the safety and security of advanced AI

Towards a Weaker Longtermism
Overcoming Bias : Tiptoe Or Dash To Future?

I spent a weekend at Google talking with nerds about charity. I came away … worried.

Anonymous EA comments

Dangerzone

Burma Coup Resistance Notes | စီၤထံဆၢ | Substack

Детектор „Ванільний цукорок“
The New Laser That Can Take Down Aircraft
Russia is arming attack drones with new electronic defenses to fight off Ukrainian interceptors

These Ukrainian Drones Don’t Just Kill. They Deliver Oatmeal Cookies.

Exclusive: Downed US pilot reported seeing Iranian drones swarm in ‘jellyfish’ formation | CNN Politics
Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software

Dangerzone

Introduction to the Field of Data Engineering - 📖 Patterns of Data Engineering

Datasette

The virtual community: homesteading on the electronic frontier

FR#162 – EU Regulation Won’t Save Open Social Networks

New Quick Reaction Force Will Counter Military Base Drone Incursions

Here's What I Learned as the U.S. Government's UFO Hunter

Predictive processing frameworks for perception can explain recent drone sightings in the United States

The UFO craze was created by government nepotism and incompetent journalism

Mass hysteria was the inevitable outcome of the UFO craze
As UFOs go mainstream, the jury is out on what the existence of alien life might mean for religion
New evidence, new challenges: ICC judges’ perspectives on user-generated evidence and judging in an age of artificial intelligence

Dangerzone

From the Steppes of Donbas to the Deserts of Syria — OSINT for Ukraine

Investigating War Crimes: Interviewing Victims and Survivors

The war from the sky: How drone warfare is shaping the conflict in Myanmar | ACLED

Militaries are drone-happy but populations are living in terror