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"Trees are mostly made of air and a generalizable lesson for AI safety" by zroe1
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- May 31, 2026
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Summary
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 history. In high school, I won the award for top Latin student in my graduating class. So I wasn’t a bad Latin student. Here's the confession: I somehow don...