Giant worldwide survey looks at universalism (a willingness to treat strangers the same way you treat friends/community members) & finds 26% of people are strongly universalist & 18% are the opposite. Exposure to democracy causally increases universalism. https://
cepr.org/voxeu/columns/
moral-universalism-global-evidence
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Democracy increases moral universalism globally survey finds
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Research Papers on Click-through Behavior and Search Engine Data
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Paper on click throughs https://
arxiv.org/abs/2102.07385 Paper on Wikipedia being used by search https://
nickmvincent.com/static/wikiser
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Wikipedia’s Hidden Role in For-Profit Web Infrastructure
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A surprisingly large part of the for-profit web secretly depends on Wikipedia:
Wikipedia articles appear in 67%-84% of all search engine results & most info boxes
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Business Scholarship and Critical Evaluation of Tech Leaders
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I think some of the stuff you see as Musk criticisms were not meant as Musk criticisms (this wasn’t). But I also think it is important to make the business scholarship I share relevant, and to make sure people aren’t blindly emulating successful role models, so it does come up.
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Educated Populace Key to Long-Term Economic Growth
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Overall, though, an educated populace is the key to long-term growth.
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Physical Manipulation: The Harder Problem Than AI Judgment
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Most work on the impacts of automation hasn’t considered what happens if solving for basic judgement & creativity was the easy problem, but actually moving around & touching stuff was the hard problem.
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AI-Generated Academic Articles Across Multiple Disciplines
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Since people asked: what AI thinks academic articles on literature, city planning, medicine, and existential risk look like. Guess which is which. Definitely an alternate universe.
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D&D Alignment Chart Maps Nine Ethical Lying Preferences
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Interestingly, the nine preferences that describe the conditions when people feel it okay to lie fit surprisingly well in the classic D&D alignment chart. There is even a true neutral! https://
katharinajanezic.com/static/Janezic
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Elite Knowledge Workers Drove Industrial Revolution Growth Not Mass Education
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A puzzle about the Industrial Revolution: unlike now, there seemed to be little correlation between the education of workers & early industrial growth. This paper shows why: it was the presence of highly educated elite knowledge workers (& their inventions) that powered growth.
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AI Generated Academic Papers: Biology, Economics, Physics, ML
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What AI thinks we academics publish… I asked MidJourney to generate a biology, economics, physics, and a machine learning paper. They look like they are from an alternate universe where Reviewer 3 is an Eldritch Horror (aren’t they all), but I bet you can guess which is which.