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🎉 Welcome to the London Review of Books, where we expertly transform mundane topics into highbrow snooze fests! 🤓✨ Dive deep into intellectual abyss as David Runciman explores why #gamification is the existential threat we never knew we cared about. 📚💤
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n10/david-runciman/trivial-pursuits #LondonReviewOfBooks #intellectualDebate #DavidRunciman #existentialThreat #HackerNews #ngated

David Runciman · Trivial Pursuits: Gamification

Any scoring system can be abused once it gets captured. But the fact remains that a scoring system can also be the most...

London Review of Books

MindTGap May 5

2hrs
List of Missing/Dead Scientists Grows: Why Are The People Who Watch The Sky Vanishing?
#StephanieHarlowe
#bunker #bunkers #doomsday #bolthole #billionaires #asteroid #catastrophe #compound #musk #zuck #altman #gates #ai #thiel #ellison #newzealand #nasa #moon #apocalypse #Apophis #DontLookUp #existentialthreat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS8vv8snK6A

List of Missing/Dead Scientists Grows: Why Are The People Who Watch The Sky Vanishing?

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MindTGap Apr 30

1hr 16min
The #ExistentialThreat of #AI and the Need for International Cooperation
Senator #BernieSanders

"The people building AI admit they may not be able to control it.
This is not science fiction—this is what experts are telling us.
That’s why I’m bringing together leading AI scientists from the U.S. and China to discuss the risks posed by AI."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjBfS3AEk2c

LIVE: The Existential Threat of AI and the Need for International Cooperation

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aproposnix Mar 31

‘Nuclear winter’ warning: UN diplomat steps down, cites safety concerns

> Mohamad Safa, a UN human rights diplomat, has resigned from his position, accusing the International Organisation of preparing to use nuclear weapons.

#nuclearwar #Israel #america #USA #CrimesAgainstHumanity #existentialthreat #resist #calltoaction #unitednations #Iran

https://www.wionews.com/world/mohamad-safa-un-resignation-nuclear-threat-iran-allegations-1774872383427

‘Nuclear winter’ warning: UN diplomat steps down, cites safety concerns

UN diplomat Mohamad Safa resigns, alleging a nuclear threat and a misinformation campaign. He claims threats to his safety and urges global action.

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ideaPDish Mar 3

@lauren

Who just became the chairperson of the UN security council, the envoy from the Unites States, that’s who..

And who do you think that person is?

#IDontBelieveIt__pleaseVerify
#ClownRealityCheck
#existentialThreat

Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪Feb 26

In simulated war games with frontier #AI models, most decide to use #nukes:

"AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations" https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/

Article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14740v1

#ExistentialThreat #Misalignment #LLM

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

New Scientist

Eric Lawton Feb 25

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations | New Scientist

https://archive.is/uFT09

#existentialThreat #doomsday #ai

N-gated Hacker News Feb 21

🚨BREAKING: Meta's AI is apparently so efficient, it's sending SEO agencies into existential crises! 😂 Because who would've thought that a machine could outsmart humans at playing the internet's most tedious game? 🤖💼 Keep crying about those 'millions' disappearing faster than your organic reach! 🤑📉
https://mojodojo.io/blog/meta-is-systematically-killing-our-agency/ #MetaAI #SEOcrisis #ExistentialThreat #TechHumor #DigitalMarketing #HackerNews #ngated

Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency

We manage millions of dollars in annual Meta ad spend. Not thousands. Millions. Our retail clients grow their businesses through Meta Ads, and for a lot of them, it’s their single most important…

Mojo Dojo

quackademic Jan 20

This is alarming.

Our experience in Australia with bickering between the states over the starved & failing Murray river shows that even when the catastrophes are local we do not deal with them well.

As with all aspects of the global polycrisis, ‘It’s mine! You can’t have it!’ Is not the answer. Sadly this appears to be the only response our politicians know. Or that our media approve.

There will be huge movements of populations as local ecosystems collapse. It seems to me that the belligerent climate deniers of the far right have always known this. The cruel & aggressive actions they’ve taken to police borders have been a preemptive response to the catastrophes they’ve always known are coming.

We have been successfully distracted by the sideshows these clowns run & the fatuous team sport reporting delivered by our media.

How do we shift this?

#ClimateChange #Water #Displacement #governance #ExistentialThreat #ethics

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/20/era-of-global-water-bankruptcy-is-here-un-report-says?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other