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AI intelligence hard cap debate

Does intelligence need a hard cap?

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Casey Newton Adam L

“At an important AI conference called The Curve this weekend, the big new idea for making AI safe was to put a hard cap on intelligence. I wrote about the debate: www.platformer.news/does-intelli...”

“Ultimately, I think the Bsky user base's hostility towards AI researchers is a massive own goal. Sure, you kept them off here, but instead they're on X, marinating in far-right propaganda, which is a significantly worse outcome overall! (src: www.platformer…”

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Adam L: Ultimately, I think the Bsky user base's hostility towards AI researchers is a massive own goal. Sure, you kept them off here, but instead they're on X, marinating in far-right propaganda, which is…
Maria Antoniak: I agree, but I also find it very hard to take that post seriously. Threads? Really?
Cat Hicks: Given the much larger userbase, I do think this is a bit of an unfair characterization of x tbh. It surely exists. It's scummy out there. But also basically ALL of health tech is there and a huge a…
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3 experts · 3 posts · 17d ago
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Ted Underwood: I guess you can believe Max, if you like history. But if like most of us you prefer moralistic projection, let me tell you a story about the noble Machine Learning Researchers of 2012, before the F…
Adam L: After all, look at GDELT! No lurking ethical questions there
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2 experts · 5 posts · 16d ago
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Adam L: Chris Gelpi had a story about this with STATA: some of his results didn't replicate with a later version, you had to use the version he used in the 90s to replicate the result. Why did it change? 🤷
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