Rich white dudes will go to great lengths to avoid their money helping marginalized communities
Tell me how this doesn’t just end up giving money to those who already have privileges? What does this individual look like? Someone who doesn’t have food and housing insecurity so they can focus on their studies in K-12 and find themselves with time and energy to do more.
Anyway, this is basically what university looks like for affluent families. 4 years undergrad gives a lot of extracurricular time if one doesn’t have to work a side job. 5 year PhD; usually free for students in STEM.
In other words: Sam has reinvented our broken 2ndary college system.
Free 4-year college would give this experience to everyone who wants it, including those in marginalized communities. Paid for by… wait for it… taxing the rich.
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3. Verification, which is advocated, serves a different purpose than explanation. Verification tells us whether a system is compliant with regulations. Explanation can tell us on an instance-by-instance timescale whether to trust the system.
4. It’s not one-or-the-other, do both
5. But first, we need to be farther along with human-centered XAI so we don’t develop the wrong thing. Or worse, deploy a system that accidentally engenders inappropriate trust.
6. We would never want to prematurely deploy AI, right? … Right?
*Padme/Anakin meme image here*
College debt is a huge problem. States have been underfunding public universities for the last 40 years. This is one of the main costs of exploding student debt. The states should honor their commitments to educating their populations. Boomers were the last generation to benefit
The federal government could step in an subsidize public universities if the political will were there. Cancelling student debt is a band-aid over the grave injustice of the last 40 years. It can and should be accompanied by free public college. This is doable.
I would normally never send anyone to Lesswrong. com, but someone posted about Sam Altman remarks about OpenAI’s plans for GPT-4, and I have thoughts lesswrong.com/posts/aihztgJr… 1/7
GPT-4 will focus on coding (ala Codex). It will not be much bigger than GPT-3. The focus will instead be "line of sight" planning. Which is not really planning, it just means bigger context windows and output windows. 2/7
A long enough output window looks like lookahead, but is still just applying historical patterns to new problems. Dare I say "case based reasoning"? 3/7
In about 3 weeks universities will be in session again. Many universities (like my own) want to pretend that things will be back to normal. The buildings and classrooms and quads will all be there and look the same. The routines of commuting to classes will be the same… 1/7
But WE will not be the same. We may still be suffering from mental fatigue. We may have developed new life routines and work habits that are suddenly incompatible with on-campus life. 2/7
2nd year students will be expected to act like 2nd year students even though they are navigating the new social norms of being away from home for the first time—something students normally learn in their first years. 3/7