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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 8h
A $3B gift to Carnegie Mellon from Ken Griffin wapo.st/3VXWr2U
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 12h
UConn EEB is hiring a tropical horticulturalist for our greenhouses! It's an awesome collection of both research+teaching/public display, and you get to work with pretty amazing folks (I may be biased). Job listing: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49... Closes 10/14! 🌴🌿🌵🌺
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 15h
The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed. wapo.st/4dg5MJj
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 17h
This is pretty bad, and getting shared a lot. www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the... The only thing I would say is that during this period, in my experience, the problem has been the extreme consolidation of platforms much more than anything I can imagine AI doing right now?
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 18h
Hedge-fund titan Ken Griffin is donating $2 billion to start a Carnegie Mellon University campus in Miami, part of the largest-ever individual gift toward higher education.
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Exclusive | Ken Griffin Is Making the Largest Donation to Higher Education in U.S. History
The Citadel CEO’s gift will launch a Carnegie Mellon University campus in Miami.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17h
My quote of the day There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. Elie Wiesel
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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...
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Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France
I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/09/2026
"I believe that science derives its authority from something more than mastering the pipeline from data generation to publication. Rather, it comes from interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it."
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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Natives make up 1.1-1.8% of the US population but 0.4% of all STEM workers 🫠 ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb2026...
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STEM Talent: Education, Training, and Workforce | NCSES | NSF
Talent is critical to the U.S. science and engineering enterprise and competitiveness. The U.S. science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce represented about a quarter of the to...
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cal Newport is not usually an alarmist, but he now seems to be getting alarmed. - It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs
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It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs - Cal Newport
Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of​ carefully planned announcements​ ... Read more
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I guess this is what they mean when they talk about “reactionary centrism”: Corruption of government facilitated by enablers in intellectual society
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I guess this is what they mean when they talk about “reactionary centrism”: Corruption of government facilitated by enablers in intellectual society | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Sometimes left-wing writers use the term “reactionary centrist,” and it always irritates me. Someone’s a centrist, but you’re calling him a “reactionary” just because he doesn’t agree with you on…
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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
L: Color print magazine advertisement for Pennsalt DDT products. This ad appeared in Time Magazine, June 30, 1947. Science History Institute. R: Photo of children being spayed with DDT in a public swimming pool. Date and photographer unknown. 🌱🐋 # HistSTM 🧪🌎 #philsci #philsky #WomeninSTEM
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Occasionally poetry seems relevant to current events. Ozymandias, Percy Bysse Shelley
Ozymandias
BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”


(Sent from Poesie: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1332841582)
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#SilentSunday Arnarstapi cliffs, SnæFellsnes Peninsula, Iceland
Basalt cliffs on the left third of the frame plunge to the ocean. Distinct vertical columns stand in rows with grass covering the level plain on top and rough seas at the base. Low mountains stand in the far distance.
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Krystal Tsosie @kstsosie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thrilled: NSF awarded $11.9M to SCIBG, co-led by Rockefeller, ASU & KU, to sequence genomes of U.S. species. 🧬 As a Diné geneticist and ASU co-lead, I'm humbled this massive effort centers #Indigenous knowledges and #genomic #data #sovereignty from the start. 🙏 news.asu.edu/20260924-env...
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Decoding important wildlife DNA | ASU News
There is a wealth of knowledge to be found in the DNA of our nation’s spectacular wildlife. A team of researchers co-led by Arizona State University will create a national resource to sequence and ana...
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...
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Western University @westernu.ca · 25/09/2026
Literary icon Margaret Atwood has gifted $1M to #WesternU, honouring her longtime partner Graeme Gibson, BA'58, to establish the Graeme Gibson Chair in Avian Biology - advancing research on how birds move, behave and adapt in a changing world. #AllinWesternU news.westernu.ca/2026/09/grae...
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trust in data: reproducibility packages do not guarantee validity deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/09/trus...
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Trust in data: reproducibility packages do not guarantee validity
Last year the World Bank made news when it announced that all its outputs would include a reproducibility package, which contains all th...
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Phil Knight gives $1 billion to the University of Oregon www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm sorry, what? Shakespeare didn't write the play in Olde English. And Shakespeare didn't set the play in a time or place where the characters would've spoken Olde English. Eggers is free to make his choice, but how does this show "meticulous attention to detail"? It shows the opposite?
As befitting a filmmaker who is known for his meticulous attention to detail in capturing a time period, even when it comes to dialogue, sources say that this adaptation will feature actors speaking in Olde English.

A tragic romance, Shakespeare’s play told the ill-fated story of the titular young lovers who hail from two warring families, the Capulets and the Montagues, in the city of Verona, Italy.
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GBIF @gbif.org · 22/09/2026
⭐ Celebrating 25 years of GBIF! ⭐ To mark GBIF’s 25th anniversary, a new open access article in the Biodiversity Data Journal provides a comprehensive overview of GBIF’s history, network and infrastructure. 📖 Read the article:🔗https://gbif.link/gbif25paper-news @bdj.pensoft.net @pensoft.net
A collage of various biological illustrations with the GBIF 25 year logo in the centre
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A quarter of this year's ~2000 incoming UC Davis Bio majors are transfer students. It's an incredible set of programs across the UCs and a big part of the impact of the University of California.
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Phonics is a fad, but it’s also good, so we should do it anyway, even though it will probably disappoint people” statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/09/22/p...
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“Phonics is a fad, but it’s also good, so we should do it anyway, even though it will probably disappoint people” | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Tyler Watts and Drew Bailey write:
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Kathleen Pryer on the future of the Duke Herbarium after it moves to UNC
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UNC just inherited a great collection. Will it build a great program? | Opinion
Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill merged their plant collections to create the third-largest university herbarium in the country. | Opinion
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The ongoing El Niño has officially reached record levels www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I used to think that academics were bad about updating their website photos. These are from the Senate Appropriations Committee...
Outdated photos of Senators Susan Collins and Mitch McConnell from the Senate Appropriations Committee website.
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#SilentSunday Gulfoss, Iceland
A glacial river fills most of the frame running from top left to bottom right. The first, shorter falls crosses at a diagonal to the frame about a third of the way down. The rest of the river is the lower, taller falls from right to left that reaches the bottom of the frame. A treeless plain extends to the right. A paved trail filled with people leads to the upper falls on the left.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Kākāpō numbers pass 300 for the first time in 75 years. New Zealand’s flightless, nocturnal parrot now totals 325 birds, after a record 90 chicks fledged this season, built on the Department of Conservation’s recovery programme, which started with just 51 birds in 1995. DOC buff.ly/7YIOBd9
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Kākāpō population reaches new milestone
The official population of the critically endangered kākāpō has reached a recovery-era high of 325 birds.
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I first read her essays in America’s Wilderness (when it was a real magazine) *before* “A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” was published.
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Miners stake claims where Trump slashed Bears Ears National Monument wapo.st/4xy94im
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Several months ago the Trump administration redefined “harm” under the Endangered Species Act. Now they are redifining “take”. Taking would now apply only to acts specifically intended to cause harm. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...
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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Plant Colleagues! Open job for Director of the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center (PRC) at UT Austin. A great job for anyone addressing fundamental questions in evolution of plants and a commitment to herbarium administration and/or collections-based research. apply.interfolio.com/193263
a field of blooming bluebonnets, the state flower of Texas.
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Protection from inappropriate influence is a hallmark of scientific integrity” . . . not any more! statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/09/15/p...
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“Protection from inappropriate influence is a hallmark of scientific integrity” . . . not any more! | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
This is a funny one. Remember how Google used to have the slogan, “Don’t be evil,” but then they abandoned it? Something similar seems to have happened with the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Pollution spikes after Trump halted global air-monitoring efforts, report says
Air pollution in dozens of cities rose after U.S. embassies stopped providing readings that had previously spurred local government action, a study found.
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fake data simulation. It’s not just for Bayesians anymore. - This is how we do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation to understand what can happen in a study statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/09/14/t...
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This is how we do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation to understand what can happen in a study | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
In a famous (to readers of this blog) example of statistical error, a researcher reported that beautiful parents were 36% more likely to have girl babies. The saps at Freakonomics fell for this one…
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
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John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/09/2026
When we talk about how science is broken, maybe at least consider how a huge collaboration measured the ripples in spacetime resulting the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away, as counterweight the guy who had to fake his data to show that people who procrastinate fall behind.
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have released my most powerful & high-yielding corn yet. It has already escaped my field & invaded three soybean farms. I fear it will soon kill all humans. But rather than quit corn & work to stop the apocalypse, I'm releasing even better corn in 3 months. Meanwhile, please use corn responsibly.
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A Student Journalist Sent a Critical Email to an Administrator. She Reported Him to the Police. www.chronicle.com/article/a-st...
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A Student Journalist Sent a Critical Email to an Administrator. She Reported Him to the Police.
The episode was the latest dispute in a tense relationship between Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and the campus newspaper — and it has free-speech advocates up in arms.
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
EPA proposes to drop regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. What could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#SilentSunday Goðafoss, Northern Iceland
A horseshoe waterfall with pale green water from glacial out wash. A basalt column divides the the left third of the waterfall from the right two thirds. The level basalt plain leads to low hills in the distance. Both the plain and the hills are covered with grass and low bushes. Blue sky covers the top third of the frame.
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Unless you’re a surveyor changing latitude, longitude, and elevation may have little effect on you, but if you use GPS for relocating sample points, you should pay attention. The change in datum might affect you (if you need resolution on the order of. meter or two). share.google/FlltI02ZPNsd...
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The United States is replacing every official latitude, longitude and height it publishes, existing coordinates will move by as much as four meters, and the million survey marks in the ground will no longer be what the system is measured from
The National Geodetic Survey has spent years building a replacement for the reference system that fixes every published position in the country. New geodetic-control submissions into the old system…
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Why I still like Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” essay (even though he gets some of the linguistics wrong) statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/09/10/w...
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Why I still like Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” essay (even though he gets some of the linguistics wrong) | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Brett Reynolds writes:
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Bookmark this and use it if you get a paper to review that seems to have been written by AI - Reviewer Commitment to Authorial Accountability jhullman.github.io/author_accou...
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Reviewer Commitment to Authorial Accountability
A commitment by peer reviewers to decline review invitations when a submitted paper's prose appears to be predominantly AI-generated.
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you used to be a fan of The Washington Post, and you miss the journalists who left, some of them can now be found at The Washington Sun. It used to be NOTUS, but its newsroom expanding (and may still be growing). This is not an endorsement, but I will follow it. washingtonsun.com/perspectives...
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Dana Milbank: The Washington Sun Rises Today. I Hope You’ll Join Our Orbit.
My boss, Tim Grieve, posted a photo on X last week of a shipment of office chairs that had just arrived at the Arlington, Virginia, headquarters of our new publication, The Washington Sun. “It's fun…
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Twenty-five years ago today two planes crashed into the twin towers, and they fell to the ground. Since then Ground Zero has, like a phoenix, risen from the ashes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/o...
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keholsinger.bsky.social @keholsinger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Superintelligence is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm. - “Our problem is not with AI progress, but instead with the eccentric way this small group of companies is trying to achieve it.” calnewport.com/superintelli...
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Superintelligence is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm. - Cal Newport
Yesterday, multiple Anthropic employees casually announced online that they thought the types of AI they’re building could kill billions of people. Not in some distant ... Read more
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