Mutually Assured AI Malfunction (Robert Wright & Dan Hendrycks) podcast https://www.nonzero.org/p/mutually-assured-ai-malfunction
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9P-fjSzJzs
The Dangerous US-China Race to AGI and Beyond
Superintelligence Strategy https://www.nationalsecurity.ai/
Dan Hendrycks Eric Schmidt Alexandr Wang Destabilizing AI developments could rupture the balance of power and raise the odds of great-power conflict, while widespread proliferation of capable AI hackers and virologists would lower barriers for rogue actors to cause catastrophe.. Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM): a deterrence regime resembling nuclear mutual assured destruction (MAD) where any state’s aggressive bid for unilateral AI dominance is met with preventive sabotage by rivals. Given the relative ease of sabotaging a destabilizing AI project—through interventions ranging from covert cyberattacks to potential kinetic strikes on datacenters—MAIM already describes the strategic picture AI superpowers find themselves in.
Deterrence Detect and deter destabilizing AI projects with (cyber) espionage and sabotage
Nonproliferation Reliably know the location of AI chips and prevent rogue actors from smuggling them
Competitiveness
Guarantee access to AI chips through domestic manufacturing
Here Are All of Trump’s Major Moves to Dismantle Climate Action https://time.com/7258269/trump-climate-policies-executive-orders/ Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law’s “Climate Backtracker,” has logged more than 45 efforts to scale back or eliminate federal climate mitigation and adaptation measures since the administration took office at the end of January—ranging from boosting fossil-fuel production to withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords.
More Logging in National Forests https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-expansion-of-american-timber-production/
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Staff Cuts https://time.com/7262974/noaa-layoffs-climate-research-weather/
Withdrawing From Paris Accords https://time.com/7208955/trump-paris-climate-agreement-withdraw-impact/
Evaluating FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency https://apnews.com/article/trump-first-trip-california-north-carolina-nevada-b906880254ce7bf249c3dcefa45bf846
Ramping up Oil and Gas Production https://time.com/7208857/trump-oil-executive-orders-climate-impact/
Environmental Protection Agency EPA Cuts https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/epa-employees-told-dismissed-immediately-rcna190474
Banning Paper Straws https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ending-procurement-and-forced-use-of-paper-straws/
Pausing Electric Vehicle Adoption https://time.com/6206639/electric-vehicle-tax-credits-inflation-reduction-act/
https://time.com/6304143/inflation-reduction-act-us-global-impact/
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Civilisation: its history and underlying dependencies on inadequately wrangled technologies. A way forward https://www.azadmaidan.in/t/civilisation-its-history-and-underlying-dependencies-on-inadequately-wrangled-technologies-a-way-forward/116 the extensive consumption of materials, stretching both production and transformation, has reached a level where the pattern of global climate change, and with it the ability of the soil to nurture vegetation, including those useful to humans, either directly or as a resource for animal husbandry, endangers the survival of a majority of living species.
The wheel, lead to a host of inventions. Among these was the development of wheeled weapons carriers.need to lay down road, We call this recent period the industrial age, and it is characterised by the establishment of very large centralised production facilities, using techniques that have enabled such activities to produce on a far larger scale than those accustomed to the earlier cottage industry could even imagine. The per capita energy and material consumption seen in modern industrial civilisation has come at a salutary cost, impacting the ambient temperature and albedo of the entire planet, a climate crisis
The per capita energy and material consumption seen in modern industrial civilisation has come at a salutary cost, impacting the ambient temperature and albedo of the entire planet, a climate crisis
More than simply goods, it is also the web of services around manufacturing, services and residing that can transform to hyperlocal. In fact, as described by E. F. Schumacher, “development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential”.
This is possible, and in fact is already being demonstrated, because of the development of durable smart communication infrastructures, both of devices and of networking, that have diminished the need to be physically present at the very large infrastructural resource centres that were a stipulation just a few decades back.
To summarise, the transformation to hyperlocal is perfectly in consonance with the state of the present technological society. - taken from azadmaidan.in
Activist Anjali Bharadwaj Explains How The Modi Govt Is Trying To Scuttle Your Right To Information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH2EjjUyG-8
Madhya Pradesh police ‘parade’ cow slaughter accused in Ujjain Ujjain Superintendent of Police confirms the arrests but denies having any information about the alleged parading of the accused.
Two men were beaten up and ‘paraded’ in public in broad daylight after they were arrested in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain on charges of cow slaughter on Monday (March 3, 2025).In purported videos that surfaced online, the men are seen walking on a road accompanied by some police personnel, with one of them hitting the men with a baton. The men, as shown in the videos, can also be seen raising chants like “gaay hamari mata hai (cow is our mother)”.
Ujjain Superintendent of Police Pradeep Sharma confirmed the arrests to The Hindu but denied having any information about the alleged parading of the accused. “I am not aware of the parading but we will check the details,” he said.The incident took place in Ghatia police station area.Another video also showed a group of right wing activists felicitating Ghatia police station in-charge and other officers by garlanding them inside the police station.
Vinod Sharma, Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s Malwa prant mantri, told The Hindu that some local workers of the VHP and Bajrang Dal had gone to the police station to offer their respect for the police personnel.“We don’t usually felicitate in public but these officers had done a commendable job by catching these infamous men who have been involved in cow slaughter and smuggling in the area. The way of punishing may vary but if the cops have done a good job, we should thank them,” he said.
Additional SP Guruprasad Parasar, however, downplayed the incident and said that it was “not such a serious matter”.“Police did not beat them up like it is being shown. Someone may have hit them once or twice. Someone took the video and the local media portrayed the matter this way,” he said.He said that the information was received about cow slaughter about 10 days ago and a case was filed.“Some people had seen them when they were tying a cow and tried to catch them but they escaped taking the advantage of dark,” he said.
Calling someone ‘Pakistani’, ‘Miyan-Tiyan’ does not amount to hurting religious sentiments: SC https://scroll.in/latest/1079892/calling-someone-pakistani-miyan-tiyan-does-not-amount-to-hurting-religious-sentiments-sc . The complainant used to be an Urdu translator and acting clerk for Right to Information in the sub-divisional office in Jharkhand’s Chas. The accused i Hari Nandan Singh, had sought information under the Right to Information Act from the additional collector. An appellate authority had directed the complainant to personally provide the information sought under RTI to Singh. But when he visited Singh’s home to hand over the information, Singh allegedly abused him by making a reference to his religion. Singh also allegedly “used criminal force against him while he was discharging his official duties, with the intention of intimidating and deterring him from performing his duties as a public servant”, according to the court order.
Ethical Hacker EXPOSES Why Microsoft Shut Down Its Quantum Chip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x-37sxCBKQ
Mar 3, 2025 Microsoft just made a shocking move by shutting down its Quantum Chip project! But why? As an ethical hacker, I’ll break down the hidden reasons behind this decision, what it means for the future of computing, and whether quantum tech is really in trouble
Jeffrey Sachs Roaring Ukraine Speech At EU Parliament; Blasts U.S., Says 'Not Putin's Puppet' https://youtu.be/hA9qmOIUYJA?t=280 Feb 25, 2025
Professor Jeffrey Sachs recently addressed European Parliament on February 19, 2025, with a stark warning: being a friend to the United States can be "fatal." Speaking at "The Geopolitics of Peace" event, hosted by Michael von der Schulenburg, Sachs emphasized the need for Europe to adopt a truly independent foreign policy. Sachs' statement was a call to action, urging Europe to develop a foreign policy that's grounded in reality. Sachs' words echo his previous criticisms of US foreign policy, particularly regarding the Ukraine conflict. He has argued that the US has recklessly expanded NATO's reach, ignoring Russia's concerns and fueling the devastating war.
The TN Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services https://youtu.be/JCBAXc0ICw0?t=1833 Mr. Thiaga Rajan spoke about his government’s fears of and opposition to the delimitation in 2026. He says that the threat of delimitation is “deeply alarming” adding it “drives me into a panic”. .. Mr. Thiaga Rajan said the short-term solution to the issue of delimitation is a further 25-year freeze during which time serious and effective steps must be taken, through promoting education and health in particular, to ensure that states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, with far higher population growth levels, catch up with the southern states.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCBAXc0ICw0 state’s Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services, P. Thiaga Rajan, has made clear that the Tamil Nadu government and the Central government are “deadlocked” over the National Education Policy, which the state government believes is an attempt to subordinate and subjugate through the imposition of Hindi. Mr. Thiaga Rajan says Tamil Nadu’s education system does not have the “bandwidth” to expand its time-tested and well-performing two-language education policy into a three-language formula. He does not believe that there is any state where the three language formula has worked better.
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