the focus should be on deploying this tech in a way that maximizes the upsides and mitigates the downsides
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Monitoring AI Systems: The Watchers Being Watched Phenomenon
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Watching the watchers seems to be coming up a lot lately in many contexts
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Data Brokers Selling Social Media and Location Data
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I obviously think social media data and location data that is aggregated and sold by data brokers is probably top of the list.
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Ride-sharing datasets and data broker practices in AI
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also a great data set – along w/ other ride sharing cos. i also left out social media and other datasets data brokers fuse and resell
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Niantic’s 3D World Map Built From 30 Billion Crowdsourced Images
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People are undoubtedly a little alarmed at having unwittingly helped build a 3D map of the world for Niantic by contributing 30 billion crowdsourced images. I interviewed Niantic's CTO Brian McClendon about exactly this in a TED interview last year — he's also the guy who… https://t.co/x6u9ZtjHK9 pic.twitter.com/uDLesrGWW5
— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) 16 mars 2026People are undoubtedly a little alarmed at having unwittingly helped build a 3D map of the world for Niantic by contributing 30 billion crowdsourced images. I interviewed Niantic's CTO Brian McClendon about exactly this in a TED interview last year — he's also the guy who
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Real DAOs Essential for True Decentralization Despite Corruption
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? Real DAOs are important in decentralization ideally. If you have taken part in a big mainstream dao before, you will understand that it’s corruptive.
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Therapy Efficacy in Buying Time for Treatment
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Actually, buying some more time is a key goal of all therapies of this type. So it seems fairly clearly stated that it did, in fact, work.
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Evidence Levels and n=1 Experimentation in AI Evaluation
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You seem over-indexing on "Everything here could have been done without ChatGPT". But that's the least interesting bit. We don't "need to prove this before anyone can believe" – there are levels of evidence short of proof. We don't need "clear, resounding successes" to try n=1
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Nemotron’s Intentional Limitations in AI Model Design Strategy
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i have a pet theory that Bryan and co cannot make Nemotron TOO good bc otherwise it would scare off customers. it needs to be “good enough to reflect everyone’s baseline consensus on SOTA techniques to lower the bar for neolabs + be maximally useful for synthetic data bc that is
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AI accessibility and cost risks compared to nuclear weapons control
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A few people have made the point that as long as the West controls AI all is fine – that it is important to be ahead of autocratic governments and medieval religious governments. I hope they’re right. My concern, however, is that unlike nuclear, AI is accessible and cheap. If we