San Francisco lead U.S. in restricting facial recognition in the US five years ago. With fears about crime rising, voters have now asked for more surveillance, drones, and robots. (by @LaurenGoode and @tsimonite
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San Francisco reverses facial recognition restrictions amid rising crime fears
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AGI as Mirror: Technology’s Search for Human Connection
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AGI = Affective Guidance Interruptor: The moment a certain perception of knowledge arrives from a machine or algorithm it won’t provide genuine human connection. This lack of relationally makes the yearning for AGI a call for this connection. Everyone is worth heeding that call.
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AI Agents Will Represent Your Interests and Personal Brand Value
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Everyone is going to be represented by AI. You are going to have AI representing your interests on your behalf, presenting your brand value, your ideas…it will be your interlocutor
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Managing Disruption with Equanimity in AI Era
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The idea is not to get away from commotion. Commotion is inevitable. The idea is to deal with it with equanimity.
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Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect: Media Bias and Expertise Blind Spots
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The "Gell-Mann Amnesia effect”. It describes the phenomenon where individuals often believe that news articles are inaccurate or biased in areas they're knowledgeable about but then accept information from the same sources in areas where they lack expertise.
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Superintelligence Indifference to Humanity and Existential Risk
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Because it doesn't care one way or the other, humanity is very easy for a superintelligence to genocide including as a side effect, and (1) the process of launching seed ships is liable to involve interim steps like building a Dyson sphere locally and (2) even after you've
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AI Agents Replicating Silent Co-Working Presence and Productivity
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I’m intrigued by the whole trend of "co-work in silence" meetings Even in the 2D age, this type of shared presence is visceral — you're there together, not just faffing about, but getting serious work done in silence. AI agents will be able to replicate that presence without
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Large Accounts Face Harassment and Dehumanization Online
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Large accounts experience a lot more harassment. The absolute number of lunatics and the number of interactions increase, and many people stop seeing you as a person and instead treat you as a figurehead
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Public Funding Diversion: AI Research vs Essential Services
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Which raises a much more urgent question: does AI justify the diversion of such funding from, say, libraries, parks, schools, etc. to Google, Amazon, Microsoft on behalf of research? And if so, where's the hard proof backing this significant tradeoff? 7/
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Human Discernment and Detecting Artificial Intelligence: Evolutionary Selection
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How come humans have an eery ability to detect fakes? Why is the uncanny valley a thing? Because the people that survived the previous apocalyptic cycle and subsequent dark age were the ones with discernment, while the rest died out. #microfiction #maybe