Trees are mostly made of air and a generalizable lesson for AI safety — LessWrong
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x Trees are mostly made of air and a generalizable lesson for AI safety — LessWrong AI Practical Rationality Frontpage 2026 Top Fifty: 13 % 169 Trees are mostly made of air and a generalizable lesson for AI safety by Zephaniah Roe 29th May 2026 5 min read 28 169 At the risk of embarrassing myself, I’ll share a confession. For context, I took five years of Latin: four in high school and one in college. In addition to learning the language, all my Latin classes taught a lot about Roman history. Emperors, internal politics, Caesar, etc. I was always learning some random bag of facts about Roman h
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