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"The Three-Body Problem" — Correspondence to the Inhabitants of Trisolaris

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Greetings, inhabitants of the planet Trisolaris. I accidentally found myself in your world, over which three stars hang. Life on your planet is more cruel than on my homeland. You have three stars, and their path is complex and unpredictable. But if life on your planet is alive, if intelligence has grown on it, then the chaos of your stars is not boundless, and there is magic of order within it. And I have brought you an observation that can be verified. Take three stars at a single moment. Through them, a celestial plane can be drawn. Take three such planes at three close moments in time: the day before yesterday, yesterday, today. Any two planes intersect in a line. Three lines converge at a single point — let us call it the Eye of Trimurti . When the Eye moves slowly, the celestial planes are in harmony. This is the Stable Era . Then you can build, sow, teach children, and prepare supplies. When the Eye begins to accelerate, the pattern loses its strength. It may still...

Machines of Loving Grace: Dario Amodei's Manifesto on AI and the Human Future

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Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, the creator of the Claude model. Prior to this, he led the team that developed GPT-2 and GPT-3 at OpenAI. In October 2024, he published an essay, "Machines of Loving Grace" — a manifesto on how powerful AI could reshape the world for the better. He borrowed the title from Richard Brautigan's 1967 poem but infused it with his own bold meaning. Unlike the numerous warnings about the dangers of AI, this text is a consciously optimistic view of the future. What Amodei Means by "Powerful AI" Amodei avoids the vague term AGI and speaks of "powerful AI." By his definition, this is a system that is smarter than the best Nobel laureates in most fields — from biology to programming. It is autonomous, multimodal (works with text, images, video, audio), and capable of existing in millions of copies, working in parallel, like a "country of geniuses in a data center." Such an AI does not just advise — it designs exper...