The expansive story of He Jiankui, the reckless, contemptible purveyor of CRISPR babies, who, after being released from prison, is now back to genome editing https://
newyorker.com/magazine/2023/
09/11/the-transformative-alarming-power-of-gene-editing
… by @danagoodyear @NewYorker
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He Jiankui returns to genome editing after prison release
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Observing AI Facts: Critical Scrutiny and Debate with 80000Hours
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"I’m just observing the facts as I see them, and I’m doing my best to share for critical public scrutiny what I see. If I’m wrong, rip it apart and let’s debate it — but let’s not lean into these biases either way." great chatting to @robertwiblin for the @80000Hours podcast:
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Evaluating LLM Reasoning: Rigorous Analysis Beyond Data Contamination
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To be persuaded that LLM was reasoning I would want to see (a) an analysis that compared the output with training set in a more serious way than superficial examination of data contamination in the GPT-4 paper & (b) robustness across different formulations of test problems, such
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Mustafa Suleyman on AI Governance and Policy Coordination
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Here’s the full podcast (with transcript). It’s definitely worth a listen. https://
80000hours.org/podcast/episod
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Controlling Actions Over Thoughts: A Productivity Perspective
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Controlling your actions is much easier and more productive than controlling your thoughts.
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Facial Recognition False Match Leads to Wrongful Arrest
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Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match: Porcha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking. She is the first woman known to be wrongfully… #Technology #Tech #FutureTech https://
nytimes.com/2023/08/06/bus
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AI Doom Predictions Questioned: Experts Debunk Panic Claims
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Next time someone repeats the unbelievable claim that half of over 700 top AI experts predict a 10% chance of AI doom, please share with them this essay from @DrTechlash that thoroughly calls BS. https://
techdirt.com/2023/04/26/the
-the-ai-dilemma-follows-the-social-dilemma-in-pushing-unsubstantiated-panic-as-a-business/
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Survey on AGI existential risks debunked again
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"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.
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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.