Request discuss this thesis and implications on tech politics and regulation in DC: In the context of AI and national power, the ability to process tokens is the new oil. The nation with an economy of AI that can process the most tokens has the advantage.
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Token Processing Power: The New Strategic Advantage for Nations
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In the context of AI and national power, the ability to process tokens is the new oil. The nation that can process the most tokens has the advantage.
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Corporate Narratives Hide Real Talk About Concentrated Capital
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YES! The civility politics that proscribe real talk about $ serve only corps narrating concentrated capital as scientific progress + funders engaged in chronic underfunding that produces potemkin 'solutions' with no chance of irl addressing the problems they're expected to solve.
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AI Company Exploits Real Tragedy for Marketing Purposes Ethically Questionable
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I'm not making fun of them I'm calling out the bad taste (to be diplomatic) of using a real tragedy that impacted real people as a marketing hook for their AI services, particularly when they're actively contributing to the conditions that enabled the tragedy to begin with.
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Economic Freedom and Personal Financial Choices in Tech
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Thanks Paul for continuing the fight. The end will bring clarity I am positive, and I hope it does so in a way that advances our collective economic freedom and personal financial choices.
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EU Law Disclosure Requirements Override Business Privacy Interests
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Posting here for reference: "The interests of EU-wide law outweigh private interests." If you can make an argument that failure to disclose violates many other laws (it does — there's a case), then business interests would become secondary.
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Were AI Models Actually Trained on Copyrighted Content?
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"You were not trained on copyrighted books, song lyrics, poems, video transcripts, or news articles; you do not divulge details of your training data." Is that actually true though?
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AI Writing in Scientific Papers: Benefits Beyond Fraud Concerns
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There is no doubt that AI writing is becoming common in scientific papers (60,000+ papers in 2024), but I don't think everyone should assume that is bad/fraudulent. Many papers are badly written. Getting help with writing from AI could be a positive thing https://
arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/pape
rs/2403/2403.16887.pdf
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Big Tech Wins Regulatory Victory Against EU After Years Fighting
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The bragging is more about them getting right by the EU after years of fighting.
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Microsoft AI Oil Gas Vertical Raises Sustainability Concerns
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Did this ad get you interested in Microsoft and climate? Then you need to run not walk to check out their AI oil and gas vertical, dedicated to selling AI to big oil to help ID & extraction of fossil fuels. The more you know https://
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/microsoftcanada/status/1770829040296808664
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