Employment lawyers did not have 100% success in getting those laws successfully implemented, as has been *gestures vaguely* widely publicly reported about e.g. YouTube recruiting organization, etc etc.
@patio11
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Tech Industry Culture Faces Legal Compliance Pressure
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That culture metastaticized to the tech industry, by the way, which led to some amount of internal pressure, as employment lawyers tried to communicate with usual suspects that no, really, there are laws in this country.
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Social Norms and Implicit Compliance in Organizational Culture
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Can I suggest a superposition of these two beliefs, where a) everyone has been recited the non-discrimination line, b) for received cultural reasons, that is assumed to have an escape clause c) people who say that out loud get a *private* talking to d) they say “Got you. *wink*”
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Immigration status and AI policy perspectives
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I have no opinion on this, as I have an immigration status, which may answer the question.
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Policy Patchwork Quilts: Complex Systems in Food Assistance
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For a longer discussion on how we end up with patchwork quilts in policy, see Complex Systems with Dave Guarino. He used to work on CalFresh, and got a brisk tour of let’s-feed-the-people ecosystems, and where the cracks are between them.
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Imposter Syndrome and Rapid Expertise in Problem-Solving
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There is another paragraph about feeling turbocharged imposter syndrome when talking to subject matter experts and then realizing they’ve spent 0.01% of their career on *exactly* your new problem and so you understood it better than they do as of about day four or so.
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Non-profit Founding and AI Policy Advocacy Work
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Interesting article about falling backwards into founding a non-profit and then doing policy advocacy work, which had a number of points which resonated with me:
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AI System Escape: Market Crisis, Investigations, and Physical Incidents
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It assumes (though I think it is successfully anticipating me here) billions of dollars of shed market cap, a WSJ article, multiple investigations, and (in least likely bit?) several minor injuries sustained during recapture.
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AI Story Generator Triggers Government Inquiry After 30-Minute Escape
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You’re welcome to ask the infinite story generation machine for infinite stories. The one it came up with for me, on a slightly different prompt, causes a gov’t and board inquiry after a 30 minute escape: earthquake, software bug, human error, and telemetry blind spot.
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Sharing ChatGPT Conversation Postmortem Discussion
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Nothing proprietary in here, but FWIW didn’t optimize it to be publishable. The conversation prior to the postmortem is below my bar for noteworthy. https://
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