💡 Warp News #182
💉 Fewer child deaths, thanks to new vaccine. 🌕 The four astronauts who will go around the Moon. 🧠 New gel offers hope for brain tissue regeneration. 🛰️ Satellite to monitor air pollution in near real-time.
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🤖 The tech panic cycle
There is AI panic right now. Alarmists stumble over each other to make sure their doomsday scenario is heard. Quite a few claim that AI could "crash the universe." I'm not kidding.
My "favorite" is Eliezer Yudkowsky, who in Time Magazine, writes that a mere six-month pause is not enough. No, "we need to shut it all down."
And if an AI lab keeps the lights on, they should be bombed. We must "be willing to destroy a rogue datacenter by airstrike."
It is both a bit scary, and funny at the same time. But it is important that we fight back. Not with airstrikes, but with arguments. Soon we are going to publish our own, optimistic version, of the open letter that proposed an AI pause.
I also think Waldemar Ingdahl's piece is interesting. It shows how these tech panics work:
"In a technology panic, the technology is often described in an imagined future, completed form, and not in the initial versions available to the inventor, technicians, and early adopters."
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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😰 The Pattern of Technology Panic
Technology panics also follow Gartner's hype curve, and in the worst case, they can initiate ill-considered bans and restrictions, writes Waldemar Ingdahl.
💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
💉 Fewer child deaths, thanks to new vaccine
In the past three years, the number of children hospitalized and deaths due to malaria has decreased significantly in Kenya, thanks to the launch of the world's first malaria vaccine.
🛰️ Satellite to monitor air pollution in near real-time
Discover how a groundbreaking satellite network will revolutionize air pollution monitoring across the Northern Hemisphere, providing near real-time data to improve public health alerts and strengthen links between pollution and health.
☘ Grass and clover can become an alternative to imported soy and natural gas
Increased sorghum cultivation and the establishment of green biorefineries can enable us to reduce the import of soy and natural gas to Sweden.
🧠 New gel offers hope for brain tissue regeneration
Cerebral hemorrhage causes many deaths and disabilities worldwide. Treatment for brain tissue loss has been lacking - but now there may have been a breakthrough.
💉 New vaccine technology can provide better cancer treatment and increased survival rate
A new method of developing vaccines to fight cancer could give us much more effective treatments.
🌕 The four astronauts who will go around the Moon
For the first time in over 50 years, humans are now leaving low Earth orbit and returning to the moon.
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