Manhattan Project

So, I mean, the one thing I'd point out here is that there is an analogy here in the national laboratory system that I mentioned earlier under the AEC and the DOE, the Department of Energy.

JPL is unique among NASA centers and being run by a contractor, but all of the national labs have been run from the outset, you know, starting with the Manhattan Project, by contractors.

So University of California runs Los Alamos, the weapons lab at Los Alamos, and then eventually a weapons lab at Livermore, in addition to the radiation laboratory at Berkeley.

And then there's other national laboratories at Oak Ridge in Tennessee and Argonne near Chicago, Brookhaven in New York.

I think a lot of the negative push on data centers is the race, the weapons race.

Imagine if the Manhattan Project was public.

Imagine we had social media and we were developing the nuclear bomb.

You'd have all these German memes talking about nuclear power is bad for the environment.

And then came the war.

Trump helped found the radiation laboratory hosted at MIT, the center of America's wartime radar effort, a program of a size and complexity rivaling the Manhattan Project.

Trump led the labs British branch and on D day his radars jammed German defenses marked drop zones and guided bombers through cloud cover general Carl spats called trump's work, one of the most important factors contributing to our success peace did not slow him trump returned to MIT and co founded the high voltage engineering corporation.

which brought radiation cancer treatments to hospitals worldwide and became the world's leading supplier of research particle accelerators john trump received the national medal of science for his life's work bringing the widespread beneficial application of ionizing radiation to medicine industry and atomic physics posthumously presented by president ronald reagan to his son john trump devoted his life to pushing his country's science and technology forward Today, we honor those who do the same.

I think a lot of the negative push on data centers is the race, the weapons race.

Imagine if the Manhattan Project was public.

Imagine we had social media and we were developing the nuclear bomb.

You'd have all these German memes talking about nuclear power is bad for the environment.

In 2024, Oppenheimer was up for Best Picture in the movie.

Damon plays Colonel Leslie R. Groves, head of Manhattan Project.

The movie won the award, and this time, Berezo had a surprise in store, and Oscar-worthy dress ready to go for the big night, even though she just had a surgery after suffering a brain aneurysm.

He further said, quote, she is totally fine, thank God.

So, I mean, the one thing I'd point out here is that there is an analogy here in the national laboratory system that I mentioned earlier under the AEC and the DOE, the Department of Energy.

JPL is unique among NASA centers and being run by a contractor, but all of the national labs have been run from the outset, you know, starting with the Manhattan Project, by contractors.

So University of California runs Los Alamos, the weapons lab at Los Alamos, and then eventually a weapons lab at Livermore, in addition to the radiation laboratory at Berkeley.

And then there's other national laboratories at Oak Ridge in Tennessee and Argonne near Chicago, Brookhaven in New York.

The by now cliched way to describe the danger of superintelligence is probability of doom, that is, a static point estimate of how likely AI is to end human civilization or otherwise cause catastrophe.

More sophisticated descriptions might offer a conditional probability, here's how doomed I think we are unless X happens, or a rough estimate of how many hours of work would be needed to make AI less dangerous, I think solving alignment is roughly as difficult as the Manhattan Project.

However, even these more sophisticated descriptions are more like distance than velocity.

They tell us little or nothing about the rate at which capabilities or safety are scaling.

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The advantage of dynamic measurements I think it's useful to try to measure the speed at which a developer would notice and correct a fatal flaw in its frontier AI because that can help us have productive conversations about the emiss, match between the difficulty of successfully aligning a superintelligence and the amount of effort that is or could be directed at superalignment.

Past discussions on this topic have tended to benchmark the difficulty of superalignment against past human projects, for example, the Apollo program or the Manhattan project.

This type of benchmarking is a marginally useful intuition pump.

His investigation follows a trail from the laboratories that built the atomic bomb to covert aviation fleets, powerful electromagnetic installations, and financial markets where fortunes rise and fall with the weather.

Peter A. Kirby calls it a new Manhattan Project, an alleged operation to turn the atmosphere itself into an instrument of power.

In his account, the stakes reach into everything we depend on, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land that feeds us.

Tonight, we're following his evidence into the machinery, the money, and the secrecy.

Peter is a San Rafael, California-based researcher, writer, and activist who's investigated chemtrails and geoengineering since 2009.

As staff writer at Activist Post, his work has been translated into multiple languages.

He's the author of Chemtrails Exposed, a new Manhattan project.

Peter Kirby, welcome to Strange Planet.

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Involving top physicists called the Manhattan Project.

Trinity is a 111 mile straight line from Zorro Ranch.

Consider what lies within it this way.

Besides alleged illicit assaults and sex trafficking to the rich and powerful, he had other interests like eugenics, cryogenics, and theoretical physics.

New Mexico filled those needs nicely.

Groundbreaking work on all three fields has been done in New Mexico since the Manhattan Project.

After World War II, the United States imported Nazi war criminals to help run the fledgling space program, including in New Mexico, where their prior skills in rocketry and ghastly human experiments could help the United States retain the edge over the communists.