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Jan 12, 2025

Our Dream — Sovietwave Mix

Posted by in categories: existential risks, robotics/AI

The early science fiction writers conceived ideas that to their contemporaries would have been impossible wells the world set free about nuclear war before world War one also wells the sleeper awakes where tv and television for media and recording predicted as well another writer wrote a book in the 19th century Paris in the 20th century.


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00:00 ППК — Воскрешение (Robot’s Outro)
01:41 Gummy Boy — Don’t Leave.
05:11 PRNRML — Загадка 1
06:57 Зодиак — Зодиак
12:16 Творожное озеро — Гроза (vwqp remix)
14:41 Dmitriy Ivankov — Phobos.
21:41 Наукоград — Время
25:55 Priroda — 8080
29:15 NTorchestra — Млечными путями в Прекрасное далеко
33:50 ППК — Воскрешение

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Jan 12, 2025

Nanotechnology: The Future of Everything

Posted by in categories: existential risks, media & arts, nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is moving from the realm of science fiction to reality, and in the process, these tiny technologies are offering giant opportunities.

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Jan 7, 2025

‪#‎light‬ — Explore

Posted by in categories: computing, existential risks, internet

Breaking the limits of light control: non-hermitian silicon photonic switching.

Imagine a new way of controlling [#light](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/light?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZXWUWLMvFSlCWqwebCELVs4-fbCMnldCKnIVGZrgtNUTRTTYSpzFXQZE36EXaisrk4LktWLvfOHDWvPYLl3repY1GFTT1cBs7NW6b5tSZsCm6hrhxySUves0ATBtZTjr9RkS4buJBybFVuHrOjdR8CZM25CUC_y1s-Pyhej3ftz6g&__tn__=*NK-R) that defies conventional expectations, enabling faster and more efficient communication networks. This is the promise of non-Hermitian photonics, a cutting-edge field that manipulates light using the full range of complex optical properties, including gain and loss. By carefully balancing these properties, researchers have unlocked surprising behaviors, such as the ability for light to flow in counterintuitive ways.

In this study, scientists have created a revolutionary non-Hermitian switching network on a tiny, two-layer photonic chip. The chip is a hybrid design, combining a bottom silicon layer with a top layer made of indium gallium arsenide phosphide (InGaAsP), a material that amplifies light. This combination allows light to be controlled with remarkable precision.

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Jan 4, 2025

Scientists Warn Against Creation of Mirror Life That May Cause an Extinction

Posted by in categories: biological, bitcoin, chemistry, cryptocurrencies, existential risks

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the potential dangers of mirror life.
Links:
https://purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036
https://theconversation.com/mirror-life-forms-may-sound-like…ent-246013
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-024-01627-z.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-023-01411-x.
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https://youtu.be/L1wkR-92Rys.
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Jan 4, 2025

A3ML: Anticipatory and Adaptive Anti-Money Laundering

Posted by in categories: existential risks, finance, information science, neuroscience

DARPA seeks to revolutionize the practice of anti-money laundering through its A3ML program. A3ML aims to develop algorithms to sift through financial transactions graphs for suspicious patterns, learn new patterns to anticipate future activities, and develop techniques to represent patterns of illicit financial behavior in a concise, machine-readable format that is also easily understood by human analysts. The program’s success hinges on algorithms’ ability to learn a precise representation of how bad actors move money around the world without sharing sensitive data.


DARPA wants to eliminate global money laundering by replacing the current manual, reactive, and expensive analytic practices with agile, algorithmic methods.

Money laundering directly harms American citizens and global interests. Half of North Korea’s nuclear program is funded by laundered funds, according to statements by the White House1, while a federal indictment alleges that money launderers tied to Chinese underground banking are a primary source of financial services for Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel 2.

Despite recent anti-money laundering efforts, the United States (U.S.) still faces challenges in countering money laundering effectively for several reasons. According to Congressional research, money laundering schemes often evade detection and disruption, as anti-money laundering (AML) efforts today rely on manual analysis of large amounts of data and are limited by finite resources and human cognitive processing speed3.

Dec 30, 2024

Fermi Paradox: The Nanotechnology Extinction Event

Posted by in categories: existential risks, nanotechnology

An exploration of how the development of molecular nanotechnology could affect whatever is the solution to the Fermi Paradox.

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Dec 28, 2024

‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years

Posted by in categories: existential risks, physics, robotics/AI

The British-Canadian computer scientist often touted as a “godfather” of artificial intelligence has shortened the odds of AI wiping out humanity over the next three decades, warning the pace of change in the technology is “much faster” than expected.

Prof Geoffrey Hinton, who this year was awarded the Nobel prize in physics for his work in AI, said there was a “10% to 20%” chance that AI would lead to human extinction within the next three decades.

Dec 26, 2024

Orbital Defense Platforms

Posted by in categories: existential risks, media & arts, space travel

In science fiction we often see immense starships attacking planets, crushing or besieging them, but in our own future we may deploy powerful orbital fortresses to defend our world.

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Dec 26, 2024

The Fermi Paradox: Hermit Hypothesis

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Could the secret to the Great Silence be that individuals or groups might abandon civilization to live off-grid in deep space, far from neighbors or threats, by leveraging advanced technology for autonomy and survival.

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Dec 23, 2024

Land-sea ‘tag-team’ caused mass extinction 185 million years ago

Posted by in categories: evolution, existential risks

The course of evolution on Earth was altered by a series of severe environmental crises caused between 185 and 85 million years ago in the oceans, according to scientists.

The phenomenon, described as a ‘tag-team’ between the oceans and continents, severely harmed the marine life which existed during that phase and also changed the evolution course on our planet.

The oceanic anoxic events, as per the term given by the researchers, occurred when the dissolved oxygen in the water depleted to a critically low level.

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