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Excellent summary of the recent randomised trial on Universal Basic Income and its disappointing results:

Google DeepMind have produced a program that in a certain sense has achieved a silver-medal peformance at this year's International Mathematical Olympiad. 🧵 deepmind.google/discover/blog/…

4-year assistant prof positions at Centre for the Study of Existential Risk Sept 29 deadline. "The posts will lead the world's first full-time postgraduate course in Existential Risk Studies, an MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience, with the first intake planned for October 2025." jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47409/

This is a real photo captured from Earth. This is Mars the moment it emerged after being occulted by the moon, captured with my 14” telescope and formatted as a mobile wallpaper if you want it. I’m posting my work as mobile wallpapers daily, I’ll do another tomorrow. Stay tuned!

Today at Safeguarded AI, we’re announcing: • an informal call for Expressions Of Interest in helping form a new nonprofit AI lab in 🇬🇧, to be seeded by ARIA funding [TA2] • a formal Call for Proposals for applications partners to build domain-specific products [TA3] • and:

The moon makes it way towards the horizon to set amongst red and green aurora . . . I was setup in a different window and saw this through another window. I made a quick camera, camera mount, and shroud teardown and setup. Felt so lucky to grab this shot. 15mm, T1.8, 1s, ISO

It’s always good to temper one’s optimism for empirically validated defenses against adversarial examples, but this is the most promising one I’ve heard of in several years. Definitely worth reading this explainer thread