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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

There is a lot more between the pages of a book than just stories.

Our HAI community offered up the best books in AI that they’re reading.

The philosopher William MacAskill lays out the case for longtermism: “Future people count. There could be a lot of them. And we can make their lives better.”

A covnersation with philosopher William MacAskill.

Increasing computational power is double-edged

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by RichaThe Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanaganrd Flanagan The world is burning and the sixth mass extinction is under way. When Anna’s finger disappears, and then a short while later her knee, she thinks curiously little of it. But then she begins to notice disappearances everywhere, and all around people refuse to see what is really happening. The Booker Prize winner’s eighth novel is a raging tale about grief and loss that asks existential qu...

  NEIL MACKAY’S BIG READ: Why artificial intelligence will either be the saviour or exterminator of the human race AI HERE’S how quickly, how dangerously, artificial intelligence is moving: one day after Brian Christian sat in his office, near Berkeley University in California, warning The Herald on Sunday about the imminent perils of a powerful AI being sent out onto social media by a rogue state to ramp up online hate and division, South Korea turned its worried attention to a chara...