"well enough that the CIO reviewing a $500k annual renewal started asking the question “what if we just built this ourselves?”"
No CIO has ever gotten biten by greenfield fever... it always works out great!
what they are describing is a postive feedback loop (like a guitar and an amplifier) with negative outcomes (like loosing your hearing).
"The November 2027 crash only served to accelerate all of the negative feedback loops already in place."
(while I understand what the author is trying to say... negative feedback is dampening... )
"This isn’t bear porn or AI doomer fan-fiction."
*narrator*: friends, it was in fact a bunch of AI doomer fan-fict.
Woot
Jack Russel on a couch
Very proud of himself for figuring out how to jump up and balance on the arm of the couch… a perch for keeping track of the front yard
Love the idea of the “JPEG of thought”
Omg 🥰
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My friend George has a new paper out in Synthese examining the distinctive badness of epistemic injustices committed against friends: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Center for Philosophy of Science invites you to listen to the newest episode of our podcast, Conversations at the Center.
In our first episode since 2024, Center Director Edouard Machery sits down with David Wallace, philosopher and physicist at the University of Pittsburgh.
Sry I realized after I posted I should have indicated a “yes and” vibe more… in agreement with the OP
Knowledge shouldn’t be reduced to what a computer can store and reproduce.
My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd
One of the most important concepts in Care Ethics is that one must care for themselves in order to sustainably care for others.
Be well.
Please stop showing me the video of a man being executed in the street.
Notice the V.
How can any of these sandwiches, meaningfully, be served vegetarian?
About the PhD: Audits and evaluation of AI systems — and the broader context that AI systems operate in — have become central to conceptualising, quantifying, measuring and understanding the operations, failures, limitations, underlying assumptions, and downstream societal implications of AI systems. Existing AI audit and evaluation efforts are fractured, done in a siloed and ad-hoc manner, and with little deliberation and reflection around conceptual rigour and methodological validity. This PhD is for a candidate that is passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like. This requires grappling with questions such as: What does it mean to represent “ground truth” in proxies, synthetic data, or computational simulation? How do we reliably measure abstract and complex phenomena? What are the epistemological or methodological implications of quantification and measurement approaches we choose to employ? Particularly, what underlying presuppositions, values, or perspectives do they entail? How do we ensure the lived experiences of impacted communities play a critical role in the development and justification of measurement metrics and proxies? Through exploration of these questions, the candidate is expected to engage with core concepts in the philosophy of science, history of science, Black feminist epistemologies, and similar schools of thought to develop an in-depth understanding of existing practices with the aim of applying it to advance shared standards and best practice in AI evaluation. The candidate is expected to integrate empirical (for example, through analysis or evaluation of existing benchmarks) or practical (for example, by executing evaluation of AI systems) components into the overall work.
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pls repost
Most beloved. Be at peace.
Moon setting behind a Christmas tree on a dock in Dover, NH
The dead web where popups block the popups you are trying to close in order to read the information you came to the site for…
this piece is terrifying. it should be actually illegal to do this to people, it's extraordinary that it's not.
we are still treating 'the internet' as this fun place for entertainment rather than *it's as important as your house, it's where you live and work*.
hey.paris/posts/appleid/
Every body contains in itself a phantom (perhaps the body itself
is a phantom).
—paul schilder, the image and appearance of the human body
For those who want a systems focused advent to wind up the year, it’s begun!
Daily posts will refresh here: www.ruthmalan.com/Advent.html
And will be posted to the page for the day (which will also hold notes and links to work people share here or on their own blog, etc.).
#AdventOfSystemSeeing
Primaries for senators
Your brain is not a computer.
Your thoughts are not algorithmic.
Don’t let Silicon Valley limit your understanding of your own mind with inaccurate metaphors.
YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE