Your direct experience, people you talk to in the subject area & independent research will get you much closer to the truth
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Understanding Instrumental Convergence and its long-term effects
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Anyone who is curious about the long-term effects of AGI should familiarize themselves with the consequential concept of Instrumental Convergence. One of the best Wikipedia pages on AI
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Why Academics Seek Recognition: Understanding Research Motivation
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They want more papers, more citations, to be one of these "leaders." I totally get the desire (and feel it myself, to a lesser extent), but I've been trying to understand *why* there's a need to impress random strangers. Why does one care what these people think? 2/n
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Differential Privacy Community: Tight-knit Research Subcommunity
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I'm deeply appreciative of the differential privacy community. While it is simultaneously tight-knit yet welcoming, I have a smaller subcommunity within (~5-10ppl?). We know most of what each other have been up to, and there's a feeling of mutual respect for each others work. 3/n
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Research Community Loneliness: Citation Gaps and Recognition Issues
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Friend was telling me about their "research community loneliness". Do others feel this? Thoughts invited. They said it feels like no one notices or cares about their work. Not many cite them. People instead follow "leaders" in the area (even when work is of dubious quality). 1/n
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Who Owns Songs Created by Artificial Intelligence?
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Who Owns a Song Created by #AI? https://
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Generative Models Keynote Climate Informatics 2023
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Excited to give a keynote at Climate Informatics 2023 next week . Talking about ‘Generative Models for Climate Informatics’ and also joining a panel to discuss inclusion and representation in the field #CI2023 #ClimateInformatics2023
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How Not to Destroy the World with AI: Stuart Russell’s Critical Lecture
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Thought-provoking and timely lecture by Prof. Stuart Russell, co-author of the most popular AI textbook in the world, on "How Not to Destroy the World with AI":
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Responsible Technology Use Requires Guardrails and Precedent
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Most folks are mischaracterizing the argument to be about #AGI when it's about responsible use of technology (like any other), there is more guardrails needed now, than just leaving to the good of humanity – and there is precedence for that, we need to move fast!
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Tech Elites Neo-Modern Alarmism About AI and Data Centers
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I can’t believe this neo-modern alarmism we are witnessing from the tech elites: https://
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