Also, I didn't say rockets weren't hard! Just that people are vastly harder because they are inherently unpredictable and no set of inputs will ever produce the same outputs
ETHICS
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Non-Western Ethics Beyond Western Rationalism in AI
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It’s clear & I’m very glad you’re working on this.There’s already an irony in contrasting NW to western ethics if there’s an either or mentality.This frames the duality of western rationalism & minimizes the consciousness opening,joyful learning when moving beyond reductionism.
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GDP Growth Model Ignores Planet and Majority of People
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Anything supporting the GDP, productivity and growth = good model in isolation means ignoring the planet & a majority of its people. Where long termism is defined as a Seven Generations model ancestors & the earth are honored. Otherwise, it’s techno solutionism for the few.
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Replit Terms: Training Data Access Rights Unclear
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i got excited about this but then went through their terms. nothing in there says Replit has the right to access them for training data, though public Repls are MIT by default, many of these won't be public i'm guessing
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Concerns about GPT alignment with human values and safety
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"Finally, we are very concerned that this GPT could be unaligned with humans. This would be bad. We want this to be a nice GPT that deeply loves all humans and is always considerate and helpful. Thanks"
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Authoritarian Personality Types in Corporate Tech Culture
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Recommended reading: the Wikipedia article on the authoritarian personality type (Useful if you're scratching you head at all of these people on Twitter who think you should expect to be fired for disagreeing with your CEO)
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Musk’s team reviews Twitter messages to identify insubordinate employees
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From that article: "Mr. Musk’s team was asked to comb through messages in Twitter’s internal chat platform and make a list of employees who were insubordinate, people briefed on the plan said."
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AI in Healthcare: Amazing Speakers Advancing Human-Centered Medicine
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So exciting to see these work in healthcare and medical area, where humans are at the center of everything we do! Amazing speakers!
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Mastodon’s Safety-First Design Built by Underrepresented Communities
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Mastodon was built by sensible, thoughtful people, many from underrepresented communities who had very clear needs around safety and moderation – they've put a lot of careful work into that, and the community there continues to invest in it I'm optimistic!
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AI Correctness vs User Satisfaction: Resolving HCI Conflicts
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Another wonderful panel by @msbernst @stanfordmav @adapperprof @landay @StanfordHAI Fall Conf today. “AI optimizes for 100% correctness; HCI optimizes for 100% user satisfaction. What happens when they’re in conflict?”