Preparing for takeoff 🚀 #ForzaHorizon6

Prepare for takeoff. ✈️ Flight simulator is now available globally on web to all users. goo.gle/4fBYnWO We've recently added many our most powerful professional desktop features to web. Elevation profiles, new import types, but there's always been one other feature you've been asking us to add to the web version of Google Earth, just for fun... Where will you fly? Share your best maneuvers, views, and flyovers with us!

Slow, yes, but brains are 5-6 orders of magnitude more efficient than present-day silicon. In any case that's not the point. By acknowledging you've already given up the argument of AI doomers. The Bostrom-Yudkowsky argument for existential AI risk is based on one of two things being true, both of which they have argued in the past: (1) AI minds can be of qualitatively different order and power than human intelligence, or (2) recursive self-improvement will make them transcend on radically short timescales. Actual events have shown both to be false. Famously there was a large debate between Yud and Robin Hanson about this issue, with Yud basing his predictions on us going from AGI (e.g. ChatGPT in 2022/2023) to ASI in mere hours, and therefore kill all humans in no time at all, and Hanson arguing that it would be a slow takeoff, and the incentives for slow takeoff make cooperation and coexistence vastly more likely. We are without any doubt squarely in the Hanson timeline, and the Bostrom-Yudkowsky super intelligence theory debunked by reality. Yet very few AI x-riskers seem cognizant of this, and fewer still have actually updated their priors.

It is an incredibly small world... Never taken pics or video of a plane takeoff and have it not return safely. Not a great feeling. Aviation photography has been a blessing of a hobby, but as much as it can be a joy or exciting, these are, in the end, dangerous jobs people do every day. And I don't ever lose sight of that. I am quite relieved to hear the pilot is ok. I wish them the best in recovery after ejecting: no small experience to go through.

A380 near vertical takeoff!

#AI171 — one year on, critical questions remain unanswered. Pre-takeoff electrical faults were flagged yet the plane was cleared to fly. The fuel tank inerting system (fire suppression) was non-functional. The aft black box suffered severe unexplained damage with data lost. ELT failed to activate. Some victims’ personal devices remain in custody. The Government must place all evidence & conclusions thus far before Parliament Families deserve answers. @PMOIndia @DGCAIndia @MoCA_GoI @airindia

What a steep takeoff! A350-1000! 📹: pilotstories

This Day in Aviation History... June 13, 1996 Garuda Indonesia Flight 865, a DC-10, aborts takeoff due to an engine failure and crashes into a threshold at Fukuoka Airport, Japan. *Runway overrun due to engine failure.

Getting ready for takeoff! 🚀🪲