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Almost every popular idea, no matter how dumb, has at least one paper claiming it’s true, one scientist promoting it, or one expert willing to be paid to defend it.
Yet, experts ARE important, and science truly IS one of the most powerful tools ever created for discovering the truth.
Being able to point to just one paper, one scientist, or one... See more
Yet, experts ARE important, and science truly IS one of the most powerful tools ever created for discovering the truth.
Being able to point to just one paper, one scientist, or one... See more
One helpful idea
To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted,... See more
The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.
Edward O. Wilson, debate at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., 9 September 2009
Buzzfeed recently published a now deleted article on what AI thinks Barbies would look like from different countries around the world.
The results contained extreme forms of representational bias - including colourist and racist depictions, which is something that AI image generators are often prone to... See more
instagram.comBuzzfeed recently published a now deleted article on what AI thinks Barbies would look like from different countries around the world.
The results contained extreme forms of representational bias - including colourist and racist depictions, which is something that AI image generators are often prone to doing.
With AI image generators like MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, and Dall-E gaining huge popularity, it’s important that we are vigilant about the forms of bias that these technologies can fuel.
Full video coming soon on ‘How AI Image Generators Make Bias Worse’ on The London Interdisciplinary School Youtube Channel.
Being fine with periods of solitude, working alone, pushing things forward without others cheering you on...that's a superpower.
The ability to run your own race, despite what the world is doing, initially looks behind - but puts you out front.
Dr. Julie Gurnertwitter.comIn Lauren Oyler’s essay about anxiety last week, she referenced a late 19th century diagnosis known as Americanitis , which described “the high-strung, nervous, active temperament of the American people.” Whether incited by advances in technology (causing loss of sleep, excessive worry) or capitalism (causing long work days, fast pace of life), the... See more
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Margret Atwood in The Atlantic feeld Murdered by her Replica and compares the AI-copyright situation to the scifi-horror-classic The Stepford Wifes: "In that 1975 horror film, the human wives of Stepford, Connecticut, are having their identities copied and transferred to robotic replicas of themselves, minus any contrariness that their husbands... See more