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François Chollet
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Everything Facebook does, big or small, reflects a complete lack of ethics and an intent to game their way into maximum profits no matter the damage inflicted on the world.

Facebook is Phillip Morris combined with Lockheed Martin, but bigger.

techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/fac…
The most frustrating part is that their awfulness is single-handedly destroying the reputation of the tech industry. Please do not compare Facebook to Microsoft, or Amazon, or Google, or Apple. They are in a league of their own. No one else is even 10% as bad, not even Palantir.
At least we'll get one thing out of it: more regulations, and more pressure on everyone else to act ethically. Not a bad thing.
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We all want safe, responsible AI research. The first step is not misrepresenting the significance of your results to the public, not obfuscating your methods, & not spoon-feeding fear-mongering press releases to the media.

That's our 1st responsibility.

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Please don't do this.
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Modern economies are certainly good at a certain kind of resource allocation, but they're crap at allocating the most valuable resource -- people's potential.

To start with, having to earn $$ is such an enormous distraction from everything you *could* be doing.

You know it.
What would you be doing, if money weren't an object? And how would it change the people around you?
To be clear, "efficiently allocating human potential" does not mean "everyones does whatever they want".

First, because your own tendencies may stand in the way of self-fulfillment.

Second, because self-fulfillment is just one side of the equation. Society is the other side.
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