Speaking of Shane Legg, here's this gem he co-authored in 2007 on "Universal Intelligence" where he wonders, as one does, "Are men on average more intelligent than women? Are white people smarter than black people?" Questions white men like to "ask" https://
arxiv.org/pdf/0712.3329.
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Shane Legg’s Universal Intelligence Paper Raises Ethical Concerns
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Shane Legg Named Chief AGI Scientist at DeepMind
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I just realized that "chief AGI scientist" is a thing at Deepmind when I saw the TIME 100 AI list where Shane Legg was listed. Smh.
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TESCREAL Organizations Face Criticism Over Ethics and AI Policy
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These TESCREAL cults have been around for a long time and nothing seems to be able to take them down. Sexual assault? Totally fine. Biggest fraud in history? Lets just get them to write "AI" policies. Doomsday cults making students depressed? Lets have more
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AI Narratives: Profiting from Contradictory Extinction and Solution Claims
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He gets to both say that "AI" is the antidote to all the world's problems and ride the grift train of "extinction" simultaneously. They definitely have figured out the grifting business, you have to give it to them. https://t.co/UObjAxkH67
— @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) (@timnitGebru) 21 septembre 2023He gets to both say that "AI" is the antidote to all the world's problems and ride the grift train of "extinction" simultaneously. They definitely have figured out the grifting business, you have to give it to them.
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Yuval Harari Criticized as Grifter Not Historian
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Its too kind to call Yuval Harari a "historian". Certainly no shortage of grifters that's for sure. https://t.co/RAWmDUFbml
— @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) (@timnitGebru) 21 septembre 2023Its too kind to call Yuval Harari a "historian". Certainly no shortage of grifters that's for sure.
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Tech Leaders Selling AI Utopia While Ignoring Apocalypse Risks
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This whole thread. with these ppl getting ridiculous amounts of $$, airtime & setting policy selling the utopia they'll bring along with the apocalypse they're also worried about (but also need to work on the utopia that might bring about the apocalypse as well).
— @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) (@timnitGebru) 21 septembre 2023
I just. Can't🤬 https://t.co/yfhoRXiaLNThis whole thread. with these ppl getting ridiculous amounts of $$, airtime & setting policy selling the utopia they'll bring along with the apocalypse they're also worried about (but also need to work on the utopia that might bring about the apocalypse as well). I just. Can't
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Regulatory Capture and AI Existential Risk Discourse Criticized
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Very happy to see this letter asking about real issues rather than the existential risk nonsense the regulatory captured people have been parroting (that or getting the billionaires together to teach us about AI ).
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Max Levchin diversity comments spark ethics debate
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I remember attending one of these YC things at Stanford and Max Levchin, answering a question that I don't remember, saying that startup founders should "minimize diversity." That's what will make you efficient. They felt very safe in that audience.
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Nobel Prize Winners Criticize AI Field as Pseudo-Science
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This field is such junk pseudo science at this point. Which other field has its equivalent of Nobel prize winners going absolutely bonkers? Between him and Hinton and Yoshua Bengio (his brother has the complete opposite view at least) clown town is getting crowded.
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Combating Harmful Hype in Natural Language Processing
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Combating Harmful Hype in NLP with @asmelashteka and @pazunre https://
pml4dc.github.io/iclr2023/pdf/P
ML4DC_ICLR2023_39.pdf
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