"The statement defended Herrnstein & Murray's controversial claims about race and intelligence, including the claim that average intelligence quotient (IQ) differences between racial & ethnic groups may be at least partly genetic in origin…."
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Bell Curve Defense Editorial Raises AI Ethics Concerns
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Citing an editorial coming to the defense of the well known eugenicist 1994 book The Bell Curve by Charles Murray. The editorial itself has a Wikipedia entry given its issues. Lets not even get to the authors you cite repeatedly.
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Personal AI Agents Could Become Your Legal Proxy
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Your future personal intelligence will have your legal proxy https://
wired.com/story/plaintex
t-smarter-ai-assistants-could-make-it-harder-to-stay-human/
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Gratitude to Steve in Future of Work Discussion
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So great, thank you Steve! I’m very grateful! #FF @sbrownehr 👏🏻🙌🏻#FutureOfWork #AI #IoT #EthicsAI #HybridWork #HRCommunity pic.twitter.com/ZXFoigy3hk
— Harold Sinnott #MWC26 (@HaroldSinnott) 22 septembre 2023So great, thank you Steve! I’m very grateful! #FF @sbrownehr #FutureOfWork #AI #IoT #EthicsAI #HybridWork #HRCommunity
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AI industry downplays existential risks despite doom rhetoric
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I cannot think of any case in history where "our product will kill everyone you love" was a good marketing tactic, and when Nvidia, the major winner so far at $1T cap, testified before the US Senate, they pooh-poohed talk of AGI (not just doom). You have been sold quite the bill
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White Supremacist Funding Influences AI Ethics Signatories
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Defining and Measuring Intelligence: Scientific Consensus Debate
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You don't have to read his mind. You can read the text and the citations, and the number of other things people pointed out in the thread. Including his claims that there's "a fair degree of consensus about the scientific definition of intelligence and how to measure it "
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Nuclear Weapons and AI: Understanding Different Threat Categories
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They are of course vastly different. As Marvin Minsky observed, nuclear weapons are not really dangerous because nuclear weapons are not self-replicating. To this I would add that artificial pathogens are not really dangerous because they're not smart.
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@esyudkowsky — 2023-09-22
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What do you think are the ultimate limits of what, in your personal faith, technology is ever allowed to do? Can there be solar-powered self-replicating factories that are each a couple of microns across?
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Superintelligence Deception vs Robot Training: Adversarial Problem
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Fooling a superintelligence is a more adversarial problem than training a robot. In the latter case intelligence works with you; in the former, against you. "Can learn from" and "cannot distinguish" are different orders of requirement.