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This is a paper which argues that the true path to a safe, dependable AI system is to take what we've learned from meditation and Buddhism and apply it to AI systems: "Robust alignment strategies need to focus on developing an intrinsic, self-reflective adaptability that is constitutively embedded within the system’s world model, rather than using brittle top-down rules", the authors write.

Contemplative Artificial Intelligence - PDF 37 pages

[character happily points at a green cube] Green cubes are not dangerous for your health, they're just green cubes

[the character is suddenly drowned under a mass of green cubes falling from above]

[a researcher looks smugly at the previous panel] Seems a million green cubes falling on top of you is not healthy… This we have conclusively proven that green cubes are bad for your health

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The Trump administration is scrapping satellite observations of Earth that officials say go beyond the essential task of predicting the weather.

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The original was posted on /r/mapporn by /u/Attas on 2025-09-01 21:03:53+00:00.

My balcony view while on vacation in Bermuda. Watercolor, tech pen and white color pencil

I can't find an English language article about the visual, but here is the Natalie source.

Your body is slowing breaking down. Your responsibilities only go keep going up as you age. Overall, things get harder.

**In short: **

Ukraine's former house speaker Andriy Parubiy has been shot dead in Lviv.

Parubiy's colleagues in parliament and the government have shared tributes, praising him for his contributions to Ukraine's fight for sovereignty. What's next?

A manhunt has been launched for the killer.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36635080

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• Lemmy.

I suspect I caught a ban and this caused the glitch? When I make an edit and hit save, the post blinks and goes back to the original. If I click save on a post, there's a hesitation, then nothing.

This happened before, then went away and now it's back. It is 100% my account because a new account works fine and this account fails in the same manner in both Firefox and Edge.

Anyone?

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Desperate Afghans clawed through rubble in search of missing loved ones after a strong earthquake killed some 800 people and injured more than 2,500 in eastern Afghanistan, according to figures provided Monday by the Taliban government.

The 6.0 magnitude quake late Sunday hit towns in the province of Kunar, near the city of Jalalabad in neighboring Nangarhar province, causing extensive damage.

The quake at 11:47 p.m. was centered 27 kilometers (17 miles) east-northeast of Jalalabad, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was just 8 kilometers (5 miles) deep. Shallower quakes tend to cause more damage. Several aftershocks followed.

Footage showed rescuers taking injured people on stretchers from collapsed buildings and into helicopters as people frantically dug through rubble with their hands.