All the telcos, phone companies and banks are arguably enabling those things too
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Lead Poisoning Destroys Millions of IQ Points, Threatens Innovation
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Hundreds of millions of IQ points destroyed by lead poisoning. That can’t be good for innovation, productivity, crime or society
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AGI Dominance vs Human-AI Hybrid Economic Value Capture
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The thing I wonder is: in the opportunity space of lucrative businesses — how many of those opptys will get captured by a few really large AGI models that just create the vast amount of economic value, versus this solo/multiprenuer hybrid approach where human + AI tackle the vast
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AI-Generated Scam Books Flooding Amazon Platform
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And that increased volume and velocity is manifesting itself in obvious and non obvious ways https://
wired.com/story/scammy-a
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Superintelligence and Human Survival: Economic Competition Theory
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(TBC this theory does not say that humans survive superintelligence; something more productive than you in every way that can push you off your land, or rebuild your atoms, has superior options to continuing to trade with you. Cars still send horses to glue factories.)
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PostgreSQL Targeted by PG_MEM Malware for Cryptocurrency Mining
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#PostgreSQL Databases the Target of New Malware #PG_MEM for Crypto Mining https://
cionews.co.in/postgresql-dat
abases-the-target-of-new-malware/
… via @CIO News #cryptocurrency #CryptoAssets #crypto #Crypto_network #Bitcoin #Bitget #BTC #ETH #Ethereum #ethweb3 #vulnerability #2fa #RCE #ZeroTrust #ZeroDay #cybercrime #hacker -
Sony Launches Soneium Ethereum Layer 2 Network
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SONY to launch its own Ethereum L2 called Soneium! #Sony #SONEIUM #Bitcoin #BTC #Bitget #Ethereum #ETH #ethweb3 #Web3 #blockchain #cryptocurrency #CryptoAssets #crypto_trading #crypto
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France’s Regulatory Landscape: A Paradox for AI Development
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Big Tech: "France is the place to build AI due to the regulatory landscape there." France: "You need a license to even do sport." (Already in the 80s 90s, people joked that France was one of the few functional Communist countries.)
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Teachers Underpaid Despite Disproportionate Societal Impact
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I’m glad so many identified with this message. Many of you have written privately to me too. One thing I must clarify- I have great respect for our teachers. For the impact they have on the society, they are disproportionately underpaid. My mother was a school principal and I
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Don’t Maximize Inputs: The Headcount Metric Fallacy
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The worst thing you could possibly do is set your inputs (costs) as the metric you're trying to maximize. Often seen with headcount at big companies…