Another important point from @WillOremus
's story: The Trump admin has disbanded gov units that track and counter disinformation from foreign countries. Last month, the admin started canceling related NSF research grants. Meanwhile, platforms are also making it harder to track.
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Trump Admin Disbands Disinformation Tracking Units Amid Platform Opacity
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Russia-Backed AI Disinformation Campaign Impersonates Journalists and Officials
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A new report from @ISDglobal details a Russia-aligned operation that used AI-generated voices and images to impersonate journalists, professors and police. The operation used bot networks to sow confusion and distrust with disinformation across X, Telegram and Bluesky.
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Value Distribution Across Competence and Social Position Curves
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There’s something of a curve here of available value at various parts of the competence/social position distribution, and unless you specialize in crime, the One Big Score will often sound tempting to somebody but not to you.
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Politics as shortcut: tribal affiliation over incremental progress
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Which is I think why politics is an attractive option for some people; why toil for years on ameliorating X when you can fund the colored blob of your choice and feel like you got the package you signed up for, which you’re mostly onboard with when it achieves a win.
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Philanthropic Leaders Struggle Generating Impact on Major Issues
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Existence proofs for our best-organized people having above replacement rate impact on issues 4+ are very rare. Most e.g. large philanthropic founders fail to generate alpha even at one with an extreme-tail founder and a budget of stupid amounts of money.
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ChatGPT Education: Five Steps for Children’s Future Success
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Parents 5 choses pour l’avenir de vos enfants 1 Abonnez les à ChatGPT 2 Aidez les à bien l’utiliser 3 Faites qu’ils l’utilisent pour apprendre plus vite 4 Exigez que l’école intègre ChatGPT en classe 5 Devenez experts pour mieux les orienter Sinon…. chômeurs à vie
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Government Transparency and Whistleblower Protection in Public Records
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Broadly agree but for those discoverable documents to also be public either there needs to be a public records law and a well-resourced team operating it or there needs to be an internal whistleblower who wants to immolate their career and social status.
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Social Norms and Implicit Compliance in Organizational Culture
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Can I suggest a superposition of these two beliefs, where a) everyone has been recited the non-discrimination line, b) for received cultural reasons, that is assumed to have an escape clause c) people who say that out loud get a *private* talking to d) they say “Got you. *wink*”
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Immigration status and AI policy perspectives
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I have no opinion on this, as I have an immigration status, which may answer the question.