I got a prompt at ~2 AM this week from an AI tool to upgrade from $20/mo to $100/mo and a) the easiest decision in the world to unblock yourself doing something time-sensitive at 2 AM and b) for a moment I considered the analogous discussion vis a person working for money.
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AI Implementation Delays Impact Human Lives and Loved Ones
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It matters a lot to the people who die in the interim and their loved ones. (Among many other impacts.)
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AI’s Positive Impact on Healthcare: Doctor Dad Benefits
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As someone who has been Doctor Dad for most of this morning, that is one of many positive effects that I look forward to the world getting to enjoy.
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Technology’s Nonlinear Progress in Fighting Disease
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We also discussed the broad arc of improvement in the battle against pestilence, including that technology doesn't necessarily simply increase linearly. We have, currently and in the past, occasionally forgotten treatments, interventions, and management techniques which worked.
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Promethium Science Automation: Odin Systems Performance Analysis
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Promethium science automation. Though my “automation” often results in me getting an alert to check in on Odin 2. Odin 1 fired fewer alerts, with debatable impact, and fewer railgun shells, with more conclusive impact.
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1Day Sooner: Non-profit capturing moral urgency in infectious disease
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A non-profit I like which works on infectious diseases has a name which almost uniquely captures the moral urgency: 1Day Sooner.
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Humanity’s AI Progress: Normalizing Tomorrow’s Ethical Challenges
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It's simultaneously a bit of "Humanity. Eff yeah." and a bit of a reminder that we currently treat as normal and inescapable things which future generations will not believe when they read in history class, and we should *sprint as if possessed.*
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Financial Scandal Timeline: Weird Becomes Investigation Then Sentence
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The “Huh, that’s weird” from Money Stuff in 2021 becomes the investigation in 2022 becomes the sentence in 2025.
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Publishers’ Flawed Incentive Design in Publishing Industry
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On background knowledge, from knowing a few best-selling authors and working adjacent to a publishing company, you might think “Wow, publishers seem to have poor understanding of incentive design.” But when you hear how they actually operate, hah hah, oh it’s so much worse.
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Hardware Development Challenges in AI Projects
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“Do hardware, they said. Avoid frustration, they said. What could possibly go wrong, they said.”