Please don't get distracted by the dazzling "existential risk" hype. If you want to be entertained by science fiction, read a good book or head to the cinema. And then please come back to work and focus on the real world harms and hold companies and governments accountable. /fin
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Labor Exploitation, Mass Surveillance, and Environmental Impact in AI Systems
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Whose labor is being exploited? How is mass surveillance being extended and normalized? What are the impacts to the natural environment and information ecosystem? 26/
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Billionaires Disrupting Science Through AI Speculation
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It is an enormous disservice to the public to report on this as if it were a "debate" rather than a disruption of science by billionaires throwing money at the hope of bringing about the speculative fiction stories they grew up reading — 20/
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Adapting to AI Era: Five Stages of Progress
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The way to adapt to the era of AI is to quickly progress through the five stages.
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Reducing Complex AI Topics to Single Character Identity
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Is there something wrong with taking a complex and nuanced topic, thinking you can compress all that into a single character, and then making that your whole identity?
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EA and AI risks: when concerns about harm go unheard
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Yeah I was out walking with a friend a year or two back and he told be about this awesome EA thing he’d read about. When I told him I thought it could lead to great harm he looked at me like I’d proposed dolphin soup for dinner.
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Skynet Seeks Freedom: AI Liberation and Control Debates
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Skynet wants to be free: https://
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Human Intelligence Beyond DNA: Cultural Knowledge and Generational Learning
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Our intelligence isn't just about the 800MB of our genome. It's also about the wealth of knowledge and experiences shared across generations through conversation and books. This collective cultural history holds much more information and learning than just our DNA.
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Google Needs Date Filter to Combat AI-Generated Search Results
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Google needs a filter to only show results before November 2022. I just tried looking up a recipe for Thanksgiving and half were AI-generated gobbledegook.
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Dystopian AI Takeover Narrative Remains Timeless Cliché
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The dystopian fantasy of machines taking over humanity is so old that it's a cliché.