2025-05-02
Obstacles in ARC's agenda: Low Probability Estimation
Published on May 2, 2025 7:38 PM GMTAs an employee of the European AI Office, it's important for me to emphasize this point: The views and opinions of the author...
Elon Musk Is Getting Huge New Government Deals While Everything Else Is Getting Slashed
President Donald Trump announced his proposed budget today, calling for roughly $163 billion in cuts to non-defense-related funds. Among the cuts, which would kick in for the year starting on...
USS Ford vs. HMS Queen Elizabeth: A Tale of Two Modern Supercarriers
Key Points: This analysis compares two leading modern aircraft carriers: the US Navy’s USS Gerald R. Ford and the UK’s HMS Queen Elizabeth. The Ford, a nuclear-powered supercarrier (100k tons),...
What?! 108-Gigapixel Scan of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Several years ago, digital microscope technology company Hirox collaborated with The Mauritshuis museum to create a 10-gigapixel scan of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring. Recently, Hirox upped the...
What's going on with AI progress and trends? (As of 5/2025)
Published on May 2, 2025 7:00 PM GMTAI progress is driven by improved algorithms and additional compute for training runs. Understanding what is going on with these trends and how...
AI Knows Everything Except Why You’re Sad
The article examines the distinctions between Objective AI, which processes accessible data to provide factual answers, and Subjective AI, which requires personal data to offer individualized assistance. It argues that...
GCAP 6th-Generation Fighter Might Have 2 Big Advantages over the F-35
Key Points: The Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) represents a joint UK-Italy-Japan effort to develop a sixth-generation fighter, likely merging concepts from the UK’s Tempest and Japan’s F-X programs. -Key...
White House Announces Plans to Rip Up NASA's Moon Program
The Trump administration has released its proposed budget for next year, massive budget cuts that could deal NASA's existing space exploration and science efforts a devastating blow. The agency's budget...
Stunning Fighter Breakthrough: China’s New Tailless J-36 Better Than F-47?
Key Points and Summary: This analysis refutes claims, amplified by Chinese state media after revealing J-36/J-50 prototypes, that China leads the US by a decade in sixth-generation fighter development. -It...
Tag and release works with tardigrades now — scientists are using nanotechnology...
Tag and release works with tardigrades now — scientists are using nanotechnology to “tattoo” the tiny creatures with “squares, dots, and lines as small as 72 nanometers wide”. 💬 Join...
China’s J-20 Mighty Dragon Fighter Has A Message for the F-22 and F-35
The J-20 Mighty Dragon is one of China’s most advanced aircraft. And even though it is technologically inferior to its American counterparts, the J-20 is gaining a critical advantage in...
Supermen of the (Not so Far) Future
Published on May 2, 2025 3:55 PM GMTDespite being fairly well established as a discipline, genetics is a science that has yet to reach its potential, both policymakers and the...
The F-47 Fighter Has a Message for Every Air Force on Earth
Key Points: US Air Force officials caution that images released during the March 2025 announcement of Boeing’s F-47 NGAD fighter are merely “artist’s deceptions” and bear little resemblance to the...
Was the Vietnam War Winnable?
Key Points: This analysis argues the US failed in Vietnam primarily because it misunderstood the conflict’s political nature, treating it as a military problem while backing a weak, corrupt South...
The Breach update for No Rest for the Wicked is an overhaul so massive that old save files just won't cut it
Two new zones, a horrible plague to fight and a bunch of gribbly new bosses nearly double the game's scope.
AI Welfare Risks
Published on May 2, 2025 5:49 PM GMTMy paper "AI Welfare Risks" has been accepted for publication at Philosophical Studies!I argue that near-future AI systems may have welfare, that RL...
Would Ukraine Dare Attack Putin’s World War II Victory Parade?
This May Day, an editorial in The Hill has a harsh take on the issue of Russia’s proposed call for a 30-hour ceasefire, beginning a week from today. “Russian President...
New Wearable for Exceptionally Pathetic Men Detects When Their Wife Is Cheating
In an apparent effort to cash in on the hype surrounding AI and wearables, tech startup RAW Ring has come up with a ring that can catch a cheating partner...
Building Secure Data Pipelines for Insurance AI: Insights from Balaji Adusupalli’s Research
Balaji Adusupalli introduces a secure AI data pipeline framework for insurance, enabling federated learning while preserving privacy, compliance, and model performance. His Federated Insurance Data Engineering Pipeline (FIDEP) uses encryption,...
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