Michael LaTorra – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Sun, 29 Jun 2025 18:05:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 Balaji on AI https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/balaji-on-ai https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/balaji-on-ai#respond Sun, 29 Jun 2025 18:05:13 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/balaji-on-ai

A few miscellaneous thoughts.

First, the new bottleneck on AI is prompting and verifying. Since AI does tasks middle-to-middle, not end-to-end. So business spend migrates towards the edges of prompting and verifying, even as AI speeds up the middle.

Second, AI really means amplified intelligence, not agentic intelligence. The smarter you are, the smarter the AI is. Better writers are better prompters.

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What you can do about AI 2027 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/what-you-can-do-about-ai-2027 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/what-you-can-do-about-ai-2027#respond Sun, 29 Jun 2025 02:10:44 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/what-you-can-do-about-ai-2027

How to steer toward a positive AGI future

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The Claude Bliss Attractor https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/the-claude-bliss-attractor https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/the-claude-bliss-attractor#respond Mon, 16 Jun 2025 22:05:59 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/the-claude-bliss-attractor

This is a reported phenomenon where if two copies of Claude talk to each other, they end up spiraling into rapturous discussion of spiritual bliss, Buddhism, and the nature of consciousness. From the system card:

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Wuhan’s AI Development https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/wuhans-ai-development https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/wuhans-ai-development#respond Sat, 07 Jun 2025 06:03:46 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/wuhans-ai-development

Wuhan, China’s inland metropolis, is paving the way for a nationwide rollout of “embodied” artificial intelligence meant to fast-track scientific discovery, optimize production, streamline commerce, and facilitate state supervision of social activities. Grounded in real-world data, the AI grows smarter, offering a pathway to artificial “general” intelligence that will reinforce state ideology and boost economic goals. This report documents the genesis of Wuhan’s AGI initiative and its multifaceted deployment.

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The Sleeping Beauty Problem https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/the-sleeping-beauty-problem https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/the-sleeping-beauty-problem#respond Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:05:53 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/the-sleeping-beauty-problem

Philosophy professors are failing a high school level word problem

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AI could ‘devastate’ Earth’s population down to the size of the UK by 2300, expert warns https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/ai-could-devastate-earths-population-down-to-the-size-of-the-uk-by-2300-expert-warns https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/ai-could-devastate-earths-population-down-to-the-size-of-the-uk-by-2300-expert-warns#respond Tue, 03 Jun 2025 03:06:16 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/ai-could-devastate-earths-population-down-to-the-size-of-the-uk-by-2300-expert-warns

Are we facing tech-stinction?

An Oklahoma tech expert predicted that artificial intelligence will become so omnipresent on the planet that Earth — with a current estimated population of about 8 billion — will have just 100 million people left by the year 2300.

“It’s going to be devastating for society and world society,” Subhash Kak, who teaches computer science at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, told the Sun. “I think people really don’t have a clue.”

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Mathematical Beauty, Truth and Proof in the Age of AI https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/mathematical-beauty-truth-and-proof-in-the-age-of-ai https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/mathematical-beauty-truth-and-proof-in-the-age-of-ai#respond Sat, 31 May 2025 18:03:18 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/mathematical-beauty-truth-and-proof-in-the-age-of-ai

Mathematicians have started to prepare for a profound shift in what it means to do mathematics.

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Three Fault Lines in Conservative AI Policy https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/three-fault-lines-in-conservative-ai-policy https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/three-fault-lines-in-conservative-ai-policy#respond Thu, 29 May 2025 22:06:41 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/three-fault-lines-in-conservative-ai-policy

The Right must find out what ‘winning an AI race’ means, how much jobs matter, and who to trust.

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AI Is Going To Kill Us All—or Save Me https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/ai-is-going-to-kill-us-all-or-save-me https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/ai-is-going-to-kill-us-all-or-save-me#comments Thu, 29 May 2025 02:02:51 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/ai-is-going-to-kill-us-all-or-save-me

A personal statement from a self-confessed “doomer”

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DINO-WM: World Models on Pre-trained https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/dino-wm-world-models-on-pre-trained https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/dino-wm-world-models-on-pre-trained#respond Sat, 24 May 2025 14:05:06 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/05/dino-wm-world-models-on-pre-trained

Visual Features enable Zero-shot Planning

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