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AI Doom and the Insurance Argument
In Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem, it is discovered that an alien civilization is on its way to Earth, intent on conquering the...
Jake Browning
Dec 22, 20234 min read
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Language Models and the "Inevitable" Flood of Misinformation
If there has been a constant trope since GPT-2 it is that large language models (LLM) will soon flood the internet with misinformation....
Jake Browning
Dec 13, 20234 min read
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Our Overly Managed Social Media Ecosystems
The current proliferation of Twitter-wannabes--and their failure--suggests people learned the wrong lessons from the rise of first-gen...
Jake Browning
Nov 6, 20238 min read
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A Blinkered Take on Technology and Capitalism
Manifestos are silly things by nature. A glance at the manifestos of the 20th century reminds us that you need to have an immense ego to...
Jake Browning
Oct 18, 20233 min read
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Is it bad faith? The Politics of Regulating AI and SuperAI
The central puzzle of the current AI doomsayers is how their apocalyptic predictions are often compatible with designing, building, and...
Jake Browning
Jun 6, 20232 min read
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