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Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity's future

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/13/1118198/agi-ai-superintelligence-billionaires/
8•pseudolus•17h ago

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pseudolus•17h ago
https://archive.ph/Rk1kr
andsoitis•17h ago
> Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and others may have slightly different goals and ambitions in the near term, but their grand visions for the next decade and beyond are remarkably similar. Framed less as technological objectives and more as existential imperatives, they include aligning AI with the interests of humanity;

If we view AI/AGI/ASI as a child of humans, then they're going to learn some pretty bad behaviors from us. They are more likely to mimic what we do than to do what we tell them to do.

Education: Beyond Theories and Indoctrination

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383655474_Education_Beyond_Theories_and_Indoctrination
1•squircle•12s ago•0 comments

Shared Electric Cargo Bikes Are Changing Cities

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/shared-electric-cargo-bikes-cities/
1•PaulHoule•2m ago•0 comments

The 'Macintosh' Screen Saver

https://512pixels.net/2025/06/inside-macintosh-screen-saver/
1•ibobev•3m ago•0 comments

macOS Tahoe forces all app icons into iOS squircles

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/6/2.html
1•akyuu•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Customizable "Hex" Clock

https://hardkorebob.github.io/hexbars.html
2•bobrobpr•6m ago•0 comments

Vantablack Paint Might Have a Legitimate Use Case in Space

https://www.jalopnik.com/1884081/vantablack-paint-might-have-legitimate-use-in-space/
2•bookofjoe•12m ago•0 comments

Getting Explicit Instruction Right

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10480
2•ludicrousdispla•12m ago•0 comments

I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch

https://github.com/yousef-rafat/miniDiffusion
4•yousef_g•13m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: YAML or Markdown for Personal Notes?

2•heigh•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: In-browser Text compressor for LLM

https://atjsh.github.io/llmlingua-2-js/
2•letaem77•17m ago•0 comments

The Complete History of 24 Hours of Le Mans

https://hiconsumption.com/motors/history-of-24-hours-of-le-mans/
2•austinallegro•18m ago•0 comments

AC could help stabilize the power grid

https://www.fastcompany.com/91350738/air-conditioner-power-grid-research
2•burnt-resistor•20m ago•1 comments

'Venice is worn out': locals see Jeff Bezos wedding as symbol of city's ills

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/14/venice-worn-out-jeff-bezos-wedding-overtourism
3•sizzle•21m ago•0 comments

Czech Company Unveils Autonomous Ground Drone for Military Logistics

https://thedefensepost.com/2025/05/28/czech-autonomous-ground-drone/
2•austinallegro•24m ago•0 comments

The Python Language Summit 2025: State of Free-Threaded Python

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/06/python-language-summit-2025-state-of-free-threaded-python.html
2•runningmike•25m ago•0 comments

Seedance AI Video Generator – Create High-Quality Videos from Text and Images

https://seedance.run/
2•MxcAlex•25m ago•1 comments

Relic: Evaluating Compositional Instruction Following via Language Recognition

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05205
1•demirbey05•26m ago•0 comments

Notes on Managing ADHD

https://borretti.me/article/notes-on-managing-adhd
3•swah•27m ago•0 comments

Resa: Transparent Reasoning Models via SAEs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09967
1•Bogdanp•30m ago•0 comments

US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/us_army_techies/
1•rntn•30m ago•1 comments

AI is going to improve your documentation but not the way you expect

https://www.acmconsulting.eu/post/ai-is-going-to-improve-your-documentation-but-not-the-way-you-expect/
1•yawz•31m ago•0 comments

Why Trillions of Foreign Aid Hasn't Solved Poverty [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFRTviAVthU
1•simonebrunozzi•32m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Are there dev conferences focusing on "soft skills"?

2•theletterf•33m ago•1 comments

Turbo America

https://thepointmag.com/politics/turbo-america/
1•greenie_beans•34m ago•0 comments

Paint 'sweats' to keep your house cool

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/this-paint-sweats-keep-your-house-cool
1•markgavalda•35m ago•0 comments

What happens when the PostgreSQL VACUUM never completes

https://ivdl.co.za/2024/03/27/the-infinitely-patient-vacuum-a-case-study-of-what-happens-when-the-postgresql-vacuum-never-completes/
1•Ianvdl•37m ago•1 comments

Scarcity, Regulation, and the Abundance Society

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9908002/
2•squircle•44m ago•0 comments

Advanced Realtime Glass Refraction Simulation with WebGL (2017)

https://beclamide.medium.com/advanced-realtime-glass-refraction-simulation-with-webgl-71bdce7ab825
1•csswizardry•48m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What would your dream home include and where would it be?

2•randerson001•48m ago•0 comments

Notes on Cramer's Rule

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/notes-on-cramers-rule/
2•mfrw•49m ago•0 comments