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Multiple readings IN THE WEIGHTS Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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Established AI research Analysis 6d ago
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Leiden Declaration AI and mathematics

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

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Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru joao Clément Canonne suhr Pierre Alquier Lisa Messeri Neil Lawrence +6

“Do read the whole thing, think about your personal and professional values, and how they can serve as strong grounds for resistance and refusal. leidendeclaration.ai”

“Weeks ago, @chanda.blacksky.app sent me this declaration, written and signed by a bunch of mathematicians. But I only had time to read it yesterday, which ended up being right on time given a new round of hype falling exactly under the patterns this documen…”

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Established AI field signal Analysis 11d ago
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McSweeney's AI economics satire

AI Economics for Dummies

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Lynn Cherny Shannon Mattern Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Dare Obasanjo tante Salomé Viljoen Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 Meredith Martin +6

“Blood Sacrifice Fridays… lol -mcsweenys on AI finance www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...”

“McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies”

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Established AI research Resource 12d ago
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In the Weights newsletter issue

IN THE WEIGHTS

11 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Lynn Cherny Kashmir Hill Reuben Binns Dare Obasanjo Ben Williamson Meredith Martin Aram Sinnreich Amanda Tepski +3
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Multiple readings

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago
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An opinionated guide to which ai b22

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Ethan Mollick Nicole Hennig Meredith Martin Alice Schwarze

“I've already had to update the guide to which AI models to use that I wrote on Thursday to include Opus 5 and Codex's voice mode, both of which are significant & launched on Friday. Keeping up is challenging, even if you are following this stuff closely. ww…”

“An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff - Ethan Mollick www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinionat… #AI #guides #Claude #ChatGPT”

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Established Models & releases Research 15d ago
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proprietary LLMs impede science reproducibility

Proprietary LLMs impede scientific transparency and reproducibility - Nature Reviews Psychology

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J. Nathan Matias Meredith Martin

“yeah; I've started to use the phrase "panicked gold rush" and I see this everywhere www.nature.com/articles/s44...”

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4 experts · 7 posts · 14h ago
Ted Underwood Meredith Martin Shubhendu Trivedi Marco Z
Reaction converging Policy & governance · 3
Ted Underwood: On reflection I’m not sure I respect the candor either, because, does Amodei have any expectation this will persuade ppl in tech? Surely not. Perhaps the actual audience for this is policy makers i…
Shubhendu Trivedi: Over time I have come to the conclusion that a lot of this isn't as much about regulatory capture and becoming a designated economic tollbooth (although there's that too). It's more like they reall…
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3 experts · 9 posts · 4d ago
Ted Underwood Meredith Martin jake
Shared emphasis Research & technical analysis · 2
Ted Underwood: The constant distraction of new model releases is, I am starting to think, a good reason to be anti-AI. Imagine if they had announced a new model of steam engine every week in the 1840s. Cornelius …
Ted Underwood: every few months, I could live with
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