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AI That Can Invent AI Is Coming

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(Leopold Aschenbrenner was fired from OpenAI for allegedly leaking information to the OpenAI Board.)

Forbes wrote an article about Leopold Aschenbrenner’s “Situational Awareness” manifesto wherein the idea of AI itself doing AI research was introduced. The Forbes article is quite good. It contains a link to the actual article (shown lower down). Click here for the Forbes article

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2024/11/03/ai-that-can-invent-ai-is-coming-buckle-up/

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s article called “Situational Awareness” written June 2024 is here

https://situational-awareness.ai/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/situationalawareness.pdf?ref=forourposterity.com

The following links were collected by me to explore who this guy is…

Leopold’s about me page

https://www.forourposterity.com/

There are interesting articles on this page that he wrote. Take the time to look them over.

the podcast wherein you can see Leopold speaking about his main paper.

https://www.forourposterity.com/dwarkesh-podcast-on-situational-awareness/

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

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Third Act

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The Third Act looks to be an interesting group for those of us over 60 who want to do something to help change the world for the better. Calling all citizens….

The Third Act will help train you (if needed) and put you where you can be most useful. Use your knowledge and talents where they fit the most. The Climate Crisis must be tackled head on, right now. Let the Gen Z kids do the marching. Calling all citizens.

https://thirdact.org/

“Whether or not the world can do it in the time we have is an open question. It’s why the waste of the last thirty years , thanks to the fossil fuel industry, is so incredibly tragic and evil. But that water is under the bridge. Our job is to do the best with where we are.” — Bill McKibben

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Grouping Contacts

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One trick I have found to organize my contact list is to use the last name to clump like contacts together.  For these contacts, I put their full name into the “first name” field and “group” into the last name field. 

Some example groups: Contractor, DNA, Dr, Dr-call, Eat, Text

Btw, for carry-out restaurants (under Eat), I add our common orders in the notes field.  Be sure to include the URL for menus if they have a website.  

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We are creating our descendants future

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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” – Angela Davis

“But one thing is certain: Half-assed action in the face of potential doom is an indisputably absurd choice, especially given that we already have most of the climate solutions we need —- heaps of them.” – Ayana Elizabeth Johnson