mthibode

As for God's Joke-- there is definitely another way to interpret this detail than the author provides. 

The article refers to the adoption of the "even tempered scale" where each note is tuned slightly imperfectly in order to create conditions to play mostly in tune during music that involves multiple key changes; however, it is possible to tune instruments in a more precise manner, including the piano so that they are perfectly in tune for a certain piece of music written in a certain key or with few or no key changes. This kind of piano tuning is called "just intonation." 

So, the piano or any other instrument could be more precisely tuned so... (read more)

The Summit's effort to quickly raise the safety issues of rapid AI progress to an international level (outside the United Nation's Efforts) appears regressive because it is trying to bootstrap a coalition versus relying on pre-existing, extra-national institutions. 

Why not work through an established, international venue that includes all nations and thus all political representations on earth? 

A UN Security Council Resolution to treat increasingly powerful artificial intelligence structures as a threat to all humans, and thus all represented nations, would be the most direct and comprehensive way to effect a ban. As an institution formed to address the territorial integrity and sovereignty of all nations, the UN is pre-aligned with saving humanity from... (read more)