I think that that it is good to push back against naive assumptions about automation, but I worry Hinton’s bad prediction provides too much comfort. AI scientists are bad predictors of downstream effects, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t need policy to mitigate AI job impacts.
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Controversial discourse necessity in AI discussions
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someone has to be willing to say the controversial stuff
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Websites Dictating What People Should Think About
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i mean they read "here is what you need to think about" websites
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Violence in Healthcare Systems: Time and Impact Analysis
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can't even begin to calculate the amount of time violence in the healthcare system
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Service Quality and Worker Engagement Issues in Portugal
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Yep because service quality is shit and people don't care about their work esp in Portugal
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AI Set to Replace Experienced Professionals More Than Juniors
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Les juniors remplacés par l'IA à court terme. Mais ce sont les profils plus expérimentés qui vont rapidement être remplacés : ils sont beaucoup plus rentables à automatiser car plus chers. Les cadres en entreprises étaient déjà substituables, ils sont desormais des commodités.
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Meta delivery bugs and consumer confidence crisis impact
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The meta delivery bugs.
Consumer confidence down.
Meta algo change for some brands
Political assassination
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Sora Follow Graph Could Lead to Influencer Culture and Infinite Jest
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feel like if there's a follow graph in Sora there will be influencers, and if there are influencers there will be infinite jest, its really hard to avoid
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Wikipedia Co-founder Shares Valuable AI Insights
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Some good suggestions from the co-founder of Wikipedia
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AI announcements trigger negative interpretations among public
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In this case the good news had an AI hint to it, which appears to inspire a lot of people to jump straight to the most negative interpretation they can think of