Tom Smith — LessWrong

Gears for political races

In the past few years, many people around me have tried to convince me that US electoral politics is important. But like many other people in the community, I’ve been suspicious of many of the high-level arguments that I’ve heard. It felt like people were pulling numbers out of poorly-documented...

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OpenAI’s surveillance language has many potential loopholes and they can do better

(The author is not affiliated with the Department of War or any major AI company.) There’s a lot of disagreement about the new surveillance language in the OpenAI–Department of War agreement. Some people think it's a significant improvement over the previous language.[1] Others think it patches some issues but still...

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