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Nov 25, 2023Liked by Erik J Larson

Yesterday, i caught a glimpse of a short segment on what happened with OpenAI in the past week, during the main 30 min evening news on Slovakian tv watched by majority ... no wonder general public is confused and polarised on the topic of AI. AI is presented to them as AGI. I applaud FTC on their https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/11/ftc-authorizes-compulsory-process-ai-related-products-services. We are fed Dynasty style corporate board room drama in the news cycle! No one talks about accuracy, performance or explainability or at least interpretability, even though the recent European Commission JRC report on AI and the rights of the child has a section in which through surveys and interviews the feedback of our youths is that they want explainable/interpretable AI... not a news.

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Nov 25, 2023Liked by Erik J Larson

Corruption of our public decision making processes. ... that’s what’s going on.

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You're absolutely right about this.

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The problem of allegory of the cave, #beingCassandraOfKassandra

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People who make decisions about majority do not live the life of the majority. That’s the definition of anti-democracy.

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It is sophism, automated. That’s boring and dangerous.

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Interesting - never thought about the “principle of charity”. To make sense out of words vs to give sense/meaning to words. I guess the Altmans of this world - play a game of being good at giving plausible sense which is good enough for long enough for nonsense to pass for sthg meaningful

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