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If you've followed me a long time, you've seen my transition from a "#linkblogger" (5-15 short hits/day) to an "essay-#blogger" (5-7 articles/week). I'm loving the new mode but returning to linkblogging is also intensely, unexpectedly gratifying:
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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My last #linkblogging foray was so great - and my link-backlog is so large - that I'm doing another one.
Link the first: "Siphon," @xkcd's delightful, whimsical "#physics-how-the-fuck-does-it-work" one-shot (visit the link, the tooltip is great):
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Link the first: "Siphon," @xkcd's delightful, whimsical "#physics-how-the-fuck-does-it-work" one-shot (visit the link, the tooltip is great):
xkcd.com/2775/
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"We may need to develop techniques to ensure deep learning models won’t have dangerous goals, before they are powerful enough to be transformative." -- Ajeya Cotra greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/dai…
What COVID Hospitalization Numbers Are Missing - The Atlantic
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
#COVID19, #CaseCount, #HealthcareWorkers, #JobBurnout, #HospitalizationCount
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
#COVID19, #CaseCount, #HealthcareWorkers, #JobBurnout, #HospitalizationCount
Serengeti Squeeze - Interactive maps
rug.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries…
#SerengetiMara, #EcosystemStress, #HumanActivity, #ResearchResults
rug.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries…
#SerengetiMara, #EcosystemStress, #HumanActivity, #ResearchResults
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 10/29/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/10/29/dai…
The Cultural Evolution of Planetary Collapse
neelu.net/explore/edge-s…
#ExistentialRisk #RootCauses #InterventionDesign #FutureTrends #consequences
neelu.net/explore/edge-s…
#ExistentialRisk #RootCauses #InterventionDesign #FutureTrends #consequences
Life extension: the five most promising methods – so far
theconversation.com/life-extension…
#longevity #BiologyOfAging #health #ResearchResults
theconversation.com/life-extension…
#longevity #BiologyOfAging #health #ResearchResults
🧵 Global catastrophic and existential risks: the weightiest complex phenomena?
"Our job is to think about how humanity can have a happy ending...about how GOOD it can be."
- @anderssandberg of @FHIOxford speaking at SFI today:
#AIEthics #Biosecurity
"Our job is to think about how humanity can have a happy ending...about how GOOD it can be."
- @anderssandberg of @FHIOxford speaking at SFI today:
#AIEthics #Biosecurity
"The idea that humanity actually *could* go extinct required a lot of ideas to come together. First you needed to know that species go extinct. This wasn't clear until [the discovery of fossil Mastodons]."
- @anderssandberg of @FHIOxford at SFI today:
- @anderssandberg of @FHIOxford at SFI today:
"It's not just that the end of the world could be caused by a bad political decision. In principle, the *right* political decision or technology could *avert* these risks. In the 19th C, it was a considered merely a matter of natural causes."
- @anderssandberg (@FHIOxford) at SFI
- @anderssandberg (@FHIOxford) at SFI
