Because the fertile soil comes from the process of reaching the breakthrough. This should be fairly obvious.

I don’t think it’s obvious. In my Leibniz example, mathematical understanding surely would have accelerated right?

i think that's just you

he's defending it because they pay his salary

>the public essentially has little interest in preventing human extinction.

yes, most people don't belong to that cult

Hasn’t the idea of existential risks entered the kind of “cultural elite Overton window” at this point?

Bill gates is talking about it, NYT just ran a bunch articles on AI safety concerns, a reporter just asked Trump about it in a one on one.

Feels unfair to still dismiss it as a cult LessWrong thing at this point.

shouldn't an entity performing science understand what it's doing

because we already have actual medication that does that in a controllable and well-characterized way

If someone didn't care enough to write it, why should anyone else care enough to read it?

Paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06433

Seems like important knowledge for anyone who enjoys terrestrial astronomy or visiting dark sky areas. Despite what we were told on TV, they can in fact take the sky from you.

you can still shoot film

They claim to have done that already, with little result. They don't care very much about this.