Persistent surveillance sold as a cure for loneliness (alienation, isolation, etc) is, IMO, one of the central marketing narratives of the surveillance business model. But it's rarely put as plainly as this! https://
wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-al
tman-openai-protected-by-silicon-valley-friends-f3efcf68?st=fqvjf26wqvek9fx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Surveillance as loneliness cure: surveillance industry’s central marketing narrative
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Moral Foundations Theory: Understanding Human Values Differences
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Though people would assign different weights on different dimensions (care, fairness, liberty, loyalty, authority and sanctity). Understanding this difference enables the possibility of human understandings.
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Moral Systems as Foundation for Cooperative Societies
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Finally finished the book “The Righteous Minds” on Xmas day. An old one but classic. Moral systems feel magic since they suppress self-interest to make cooperative societies possible.
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Exploring Sama as a Potential Universal Basic Income Model
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Very interesting! Need to read into it. Haven’t thought of seeing Sama as an UBI
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Internal AGI Achievement Claims and Suspicions of Deception
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I think he lies to us and I still believe that agi has been achieved internally (looking at you boys @futuristflower @apples_jimmy )
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OpenAI Transparency: Models, Azure Contracts, and Labor Practices
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Partial list:
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America’s AI Safety Plan Faces Budget Crunch and Expert Disagreement
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America’s Big AI Safety Plan Faces a Budget Crunch: there is “significant disagreement” among AI experts over how to work on or even measure and define safety issues with the technology https://
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Children’s Intrinsic Motivation: Natural Human Development Beyond Design
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AI Workers May Soon Become Superfluous to Development
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People working on AI systems are already their most productive users. It’s not hard to imagine a point within the next year or two where most of the human added value to this process will be superfluous.
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ESG Transparency and Accountability in Technology Sustainability
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An #ESG Transparency to Accountability Special! From #BT ’s #Sustainability Festival to #COP28 ! See https://
apple.co/3RSZsgs In this ESG Live #podcast special , we are delighted to share a holistic focus on advancing ESG outcomes across technology, culture, skills,