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This aged unfortunately well
18 Nov 2024
The USDA funded research on the sex life of the screwworm.
Screwworms were a cattle parasite in the southern US. That researcher developed the sterile insect release technique, and, by 1966, the U.S. was declared screwworm free -- saving ~$20B for US cattle producers. 3/
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The rationalists got into the post-training !
holy shit new scaling law smarter models are more likely to agree with yudkowsky on decision theory
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For those who wanted the slides from my @ea_global talk: I'm releasing this as a three-part series on Substack.
The first essay, on why AI may be much less democratizing than recent technologies, is out now
newsletter.deenamousa.com/p/…
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We've gotten used to technology being democratizing but, unfortunately, it seems unlikely AI will be a leapfrog miracle story.
New post out now on why -
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Happening now!
Looking forward to speaking at UN Behavioral Science week about how to adopt AI models across global contexts.
If you’d like to tune in, it’ll be streamed here! uninnovation.network/un-grou…
@UN_BeSci @UN_Innovation
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Looking forward to speaking at UN Behavioral Science week about how to adopt AI models across global contexts.
If you’d like to tune in, it’ll be streamed here! uninnovation.network/un-grou…
@UN_BeSci @UN_Innovation
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Spotting a a Waymo being driven by a human in NYC is always a little trippy on a few levels
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Roundup of my favorite May reading: India's IT revenue and employment decoupled for the first time in 2 decades, ChatGPT's obsession with goblins is actually very human, and in countries with fewer than 1 doctor/10,000 people, the AI-and-jobs debate looks a *little* different
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Bigger question is whether the worrying actually helped prepare them for the 8% or just caused them to suffer twice (usually the latter which is closer to the actual reason anxiety is unhelpful)
May 23
In a study of people with generalized anxiety disorder, only 8.6% of recorded worries actually happened.
The most common outcome: 0%. Not a single worry came true.
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Short term, universities will move to handwritten in-class exams, but soon that won't be enough. We'll need to put a stake in the ground re: what higher education is for.
To prepare you to complete economically-useful tasks, to teach you to think in a general sense? Neither?
May 21
Going to see a lot more of these AI bans in universities. I understand the impulse but I think it’s a mistake.
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“So, have you heard of Jevons paradox?”
May 19
Saw a bunch of people in graduation gowns yesterday and resisted the urge to make a commencement speech about AI
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Yes! AI Exposure is not displacement risk. Being more exposed to AI might mean a job is more likely than others to hire *more* people
May 19
People are sharing stories about tech layoffs as evidence of "white collar bloodbath". But a bunch of stories doesn't tell us much.
What do the data say? 🧵
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I have a bone to pick with AI usage data and AI exposure indexes:
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New post: Unfortunately, nobody knows what AI exposure means.
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