Defending the political neutrality of universities is not a political opinion but a rational necessity. Once science opens itself to ideology, it loses not just legitimacy, it will also become weapon and victim of political camps and cabals
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Academia’s State Monopoly and Political Vulnerability Crisis
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Academia is completely unfazed by replication crises and ideological corruption, because it is a state sanctioned monopoly. But it’s threatened by an investiture conflict when it loudly serves different political ends than the government or the general public
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Ethics in Science vs Art: Institutional Boundaries and Accountability
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in the science (the state sanctioned accreditation monopoly for fact checkers of all kinds), the acceptable limit of atrocities towards a test subject is determined by an ethics commission and dominant socializations within the org, in art it is given by the ethics of the artist
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Refuting False Premises About Anthropic’s Stance on Reporting
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That premise is utter and blatant bullshit, and irrespective of that I have not heard Anthropic claim to believe it. So on the second clause especially, that doesn't factor into what Anthropic finds an encouraging or discouraging response to voluntary reporting.
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AI’s Past, Present, Future: Stakes, Gains, and Gaps
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Join award-winning AI journalist @_KarenHao and @StanfordHAI Senior Fellow @chrmanning at our next seminar for a thought-provoking conversation about the past, present, and future of AI—what’s at stake, who stands to gain, and who is being left behind. https://
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AI Economic Impact Hindered by Tech Concentration and Closed Infrastructure
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If we're not seeing more economic impact of AI in terms of GDP growth, in my opinion, it's mostly because gains and controls are concentrated in a few companies (mostly big tech and a couple of big startups) because of the lack of open infrastructure, open science and open-source
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Military Bureaucracy Stifles Innovation Through Risk-Averse Leadership
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Sad to hear this. Have seen this counter-productive nonsense growing for well over a decade now. The force has too many lawyers and acquisition executives and PAO types and many seem to be motivated to say no to everything because it makes them seem important.
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Institutions and Inadequate Equilibria in Decision Making
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I haven’t read a better book on this general issue that Inadequate Equilibria. Because *clearly* society would have wanted that trial to succeed (contingent on the biochemistry working etc etc). But society doesn’t make decisions; the institutions it is consisted of do.
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Academic System Failures Hide Research Trial Underperformance Issues
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It’s not the grad student’s fault, not in any way that matters. Nobody at the university wants to make an enemy of the PI or alienate potential funders in the future. There is no after action on why the trial underperformed because the system does not know, legibly, that it did.
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COVID Trial CRO Security Failures Highlight Healthcare Tech Gaps
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Example from COVID vaccine trials: Meri (a trial enrollee) had to download an ancient version of Internet explorer because, despite the trial being worth about $30k per patient, the CRO couldn’t spell SSL and Chrome blocked their site as a consequence.