Three things are true today:

1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.

How are we actually “aligning AI with human values”?

How does a brain wire itself, starting from a single cell, using only the information encoded in a genome? We pose this as an engineering problem.

Global views appear to have flipped in Beijing’s favour, driven in part by tensions between the Trump administration and US allies, a new Pew survey shows The world has largely viewed the US more favourably than China for years, but those opinions have flipped in Beijing’s favour this year, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center, a remarkable shift driven in part by tensions between the Trump administration and US allies. More people have favourable views of China than the US in 25 out of the 36 countries and territories that were surveyed, including Canada and Mexico. The poll was conducted from February to May, a period when the United States and Israel were engaged in a war against Iran. Continue reading...