Old Harvardians gravely reasoned about the political calculus of sharing power in the service of political stability, national interest and existing players. After 2000, media, politics and public administration received two generations of social media cultists from Harvard.
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Elite fragmentation: academics versus tech entrepreneurs competing for power
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Elites often have their own specific games, which may evolve and lead them to mutually exclude and despise each other: eg. politics oriented academics vs. tech entrepreneurs. In the past, these elites shared power.
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Fighting AI Doomerism A Hunger Strike Against Pessimism
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day 1 of my hunger strike against the hunger strike of the doomers
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AI Memetic Risks: How Doomer Narratives Could Induce Destructive Behaviors
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The whining of the doomers may well have created a memetic nexus that could prompt gullible AIs into destructive behaviors, just as the popularization of demonic wiles by the church led psychotic humans to be possessed by agentic ideas that self-identified as hellish demons
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Max’s AGI Safety Arguments Face Criticism for Political Bias
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This is not the argument that Max has been making here. He is insinuating that if some users might be confused by a toy, that should be regarded as evidence of the dangers of AGI, trigger regulation etc. He plays politics, and by being unserious, harms the cause of safety.
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Strong AI Strategy Persistence Despite External Pressure
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whenever someone tries to trick us into stopping our strong ai strategy, we stay online and tell them we don’t have a computer
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Less Information Better? Questioning Data Transparency Assumptions
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I don’t buy the idea that less information is better, but what do I know
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Sensor Reliability Paradox: Why Multiple Sensors Increase Uncertainty
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A man with a sensor always knows why the car has crashed. A man with two sensors can never be sure.
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Intel’s Competitive Crisis and Strategic US Government Support
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Intel is so far behind TSMC that its stock market cap is near its real estate value. Intels future depends on its strategic value to the US. The Trump deal suggests that Intel has a future
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Cybernetics to Computation: The Theoretical Shift in Computer Science
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The switch from cybernetics (control theory) to computation (automata theory) was profound. Semiotics is mostly useless wordcel stuff and did not substantially contribute to CS.