If you go far enough back, you'll find me arguing against BSD/Apache-style licensing for the GPL. I have changed my perspective over time: one of the downsides of public writing is when I'm wrong (or ppl think I am), it's always public.
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Scientific research requires more public understanding than entertainment
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Well surely it’s obvious that fundamental scientific research is not the same as business or entertainment and politics and requires more time and thought than average to parse properly for the public..?
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Preparing grounds for change without manipulation
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this is a fair point! i think the title ended up having connotations we didn't intend. the idea is that you can't change other people but you can prepare for the ground for them to decide for themselves that they want to change. which I don't think is manipulation
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Preparing Ground for Change Without Manipulation Ethics
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yeah i think the title ended up having connotations we didn't intend. the idea is that you can't change other people but you can prepare for the ground for them to decide for themselves that they want to change. which I don't think is manipulation, but fair point!
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RLHF Limitations and Open Problems in AI Alignment
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RLHF(Reinforcement learning from human feedback) is the common technique used for aligning AI systems(LLMs in particular) with human goals. RLHF works but as with every thing in life, it has flaws too. The paper "Open Problems and Fundamental Limitations of Reinforcement
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Joscha Bach on Intelligence, Consciousness, and Reality
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Here's my conversation with Joscha Bach (
@Plinz
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youtube.com/watch?v=e8qJsk
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Amazon Employees Leak Marketplace Seller Information on Telegram
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real fascinating from @annierpalmer https://
cnbc.com/2023/08/01/ama
zon-employees-leak-info-that-marketplace-sellers-buy-on-telegram.html
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AI Systems Becoming Incomprehensible: The Control Problem
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The Coming Wave is producing new inventions that are increasingly beyond our ability to comprehend or control… Previously creators could explain how something worked, why it did what it did, even if this required vast detail. That’s increasingly no longer true. Many
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Untangling LLMs’ Training Data Sources and Ethics
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Biases in Low-Code No-Code AI Tools and Governance
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Thomas Robinson of @DominoDataLab dives into potential biases in low-code/no-code AI tools via @ForbesTech Insightful read on the importance of understanding & governance. Check it out: https://
domino.buzz/3rGeo72 #DataScience #LowCodeNoCode #DominoDataLab #ForbesTech