# "Trees are mostly made of air and a generalizable lesson for AI safety" by zroe1

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Published: 2026-05-31T07:45:39+00:00
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Duration seconds: 450

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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...

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