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10 May 2025 21h59

"Five Ways to Act Deluded, Stupid, Ineffective, or Evil"

NSF Funding Decisions and DEI Policy Impact Debate

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10 May 2025 21h58

Oh, don't be ridiculous. You know perfectly well that a tiny portion of NSF funding decisions would have been different, had no one paid any attention to DEI.

Is Scientific Research Politically Captured Debate

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10 May 2025 19h46

You're seriously telling us that research in computer science, engineering, physics, chemistry, etc is "politically captured"? What world do you live in?

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Hinton Warns of AI Risks and Calls for Regulation

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10 May 2025 19h33

50% chance that AI will destroy humanity in the coming decades, according to Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate. It would be necessary to establish regulation, even a global moratorium on AI. But for reasons of technological sovereignty, no state https://x.com/tomdlal/status/1878938151034761518 …

NSF Funding Bias Allegations During Trump Administration

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10 May 2025 19h23

There is no corruption at NSF, except during the last Trump administration when he instructed NSF to mostly fund proposals from Red States.

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Legal Liability of AI and Robots: Future Challenges

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10 May 2025 16h13

That's right. But indeed, as you pointed out, lawyers will have their hands full for the coming decades with AI and robots. Who is responsible in case of error? The technician? The robot manufacturer? The company managing the AI integrated into the robot?

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Performance and Expertise: When Robots Surpass Surgeons

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10 May 2025 12h37

Of course they do. Why do we have surgery performed by a surgeon and not a stretcher bearer? It's for performance reasons. If tomorrow surgical robots become more efficient than human surgeons, then we must entrust supervision to robot AIs.