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Does what it says on the tin.
The Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0
Between 2011-2019, Leverage Research explored the deep psychology of Effective Altruism and Silicon Valley, then suddenly dissolved among rumors of "demons." What happened?
The sad decline of effective altruism
A once wholesome and inspiring movement has become entangled with cults and has lost years chasing dead-end ideas
advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/wsff.md at main · humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents
Contribute to humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents development by creating an account on GitHub.
OpenAI Employees Say Firm’s Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims
OpenAI chief scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever reportedly likes to burn effigies and lead ritualistic chants at the company.
Dario Amodei and the AI apocalypse alchemists
So the sceptics and cynics about Artificial Intelligence are correct? Maybe. Maybe not. Elon Musk's involvement is significant
How ‘Automation’ Made America Work Harder
Computers were supposed to reduce office labor. They accomplished the opposite
EA is worse than traditional philanthropy in the way it excludes we the poor.
Effective altruism is worse than traditional philanthropy in the way it excludes the extreme poor in the global south. By Anthony Kalulu @KaluluAnthony | December 3, 2022: —- I have spent the vast portion of my life in ultra poverty. My region Busoga, is also Uganda’s most impoverished, yet Uganda itself is among the poorest countries … Continue reading ""
Giving Altruism a Bad Name
Effective Altruism’s metrics-driven model of philanthropy is elitist, condescending and — most damning of all — extremely ineffective.
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Understanding the "Scientology of Silicon Valley." (7,700 words)
Rooms with Text: A Dataset for Overlaying Text Detection
In this paper, we introduce a new dataset of room interior pictures with overlaying and scene text, totalling to 4836 annotated images in 25 product categories. We provide details on the collection and annotation process of our dataset, and analyze its statistics. Furthermore, we propose a baseline method for overlaying text detection, that leverages the character region-aware text detection framework to guide the classification model. We validate our approach and show its efficiency in terms of binary classification metrics, reaching the final performance of 0.95 F1 score, with false positive and false negative rates of 0.02 and 0.06 correspondingly.
Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?
There’s a lot to like about the Rationalist community, but they do have a certain tendency to spawn — shall we say — high demand groups. We sent a card-carrying Rat to investigate what’s really going on.
The Global Brain Argument: Nodes, Computroniums and the Ai Megasystem (Target Paper for Special Issue)
The Global Brain Argument contends that many of us are, or will be, part of a global brain network that includes both biological and artificial intelligences (AIs), such as generative AIs ...
Reify This
The authors contend that contemporary efforts to render AI systems interpretable rest on a mistake: reification, the process of treating abstractions and statistical artifacts as if they were concrete realities.…
"Restoration is possible, but not by nostalgia" – Luciano Floridi on
In conversation with Infomedia, the University of Bergen's newest honorary doctor discusses the erosion of the public information space, responsible AI, and what education should look like in an age
"Restoration is possible, but not by nostalgia" – Luciano Floridi on
In conversation with Infomedia, the University of Bergen's newest honorary doctor discusses the erosion of the public information space, responsible AI, and what education should look like in an age
We read a lot of AI books so you don’t have to
“Because every camp needs a book right now”
Slop-Machine Future
The arc of large language models is mediocre, and it bends toward “target procurement”.
Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors
LLMs have achieved remarkable breakthroughs in reasoning, insights, and tool use, but chaining these abilities into extended processes at the scale of those routinely executed by humans,...