"Ord notes that in a 2018 survey of the top AI researchers, “half the respondents estimated that the probability of the long-term impact of artificial general intelligence (AGI) being ‘extremely bad …” How many times does this survey need to be debunked my god.
@timnitgebru
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Article on AI Fails to Address Eugenics Concerns Directly
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and "groundbreaking" yea? Now it all makes sense how this dude managed to write this article without the term eugenics.
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Yudkowsky eugenics critique platformization ethics
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@VanityFair do you have any idea how many eugenicists were platformed here? Yudkowsky is not an "AI analyst." He is however someone who talks about how children probably don't have the right to life until the age they're smart enough to deserve to be alive.
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Questioning AI Analyst Credibility and Authority Standards
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"As AI analyst Eliezer Yudkowsky, cofounder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, has observed," You gotta be FUCKING KIDDING ME. "AI analyist" you can be called as a white dude if you write a harry potter fanfic and have a doomsday cult. My god.
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Expertise Requirements: When Should Cosmologists Comment on AI?
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"In 2012, no less an authority than cosmologist Stephen Hawking weighed in…." Why does being a cosmologist make you an authority on AI? Maybe I should write an article about cosmology next?
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Scientists Express Concerns About Near-Term Artificial General Intelligence
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"he near-term possibility of artificial general intelligence (AGI)—the ability of an intelligent agent to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can—has led many eminent scientists to worry" Oh lord he's one of THOSE smh.
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Author Avoids Eugenics Discussion Regarding Julian Huxley
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I find it very strange the author figured out how to not say the word "eugenics" even while talking about Julian Huxley.
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TESCREAL Bundle: Tech Billionaires and Transhumanism Vision
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I haven't read this yet but seems to be about the TESCREAL bundle (mostly talking about transhumanism though). https://
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Worldview Limitations Shape Objective Data Interpretation
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"So, understanding the limitations of your own worldview can tell you about the limitations of “objective” data. What assumptions do you make about the world? What feels like common sense? What feels foreign?""
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Dataset Worldviews: Uncovering Hidden Biases in Data
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This is another work referenced in the interview. Dylan did this in 2022 right before he joined us. "If it’s hard to see a dataset’s values—if it feels “objective”, “universal”, or “neutral”—it may simply be reflecting a worldview you’re accustomed to." https://
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