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diff --git a/recs/anti_ai.html b/recs/anti_ai.html index 95fb4de..80b011b 100755 --- a/recs/anti_ai.html +++ b/recs/anti_ai.html @@ -308,6 +308,17 @@ All that data has to be constantly assembled and analyzed, seamlessly, without being obtrusive to the individual. That means there should not be any manual logging on and off or active effort required. That's not so easy: for example, as I experienced firsthand, there's no method for capturing what food we ingest without manual entry via an app or website. When I did that for two weeks along with exercise and sleep (detailed in Chapter 11), my only solace was that it would only last for two weeks. Any AI coach that would be learning over a period much longer than days could not be predicated on users having to work to input their data. +
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Human CompatibleStuart RussellCasual
Focusing on raw computing power misses the point entirely. Speed alone won't give us AI. Running a poorly designed algorithm on a faster computer doesn’t make the algorithm better; it just means you get the wrong answer more quickly.
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Invisible WomenCaroline Criado PerezCasual
Actually, a belief in meritocracy may be all you need - to introduce bias, that is. Studies have shown that a belief in your own personal objectivity, or a belief that you are not sexist, makes you less objective and more likely to behave in a sexist way. Men (women were not found to exhibit this bias) who believe that they are objective in hiring decisions are more likely to hire a male applicant than an identically described female applicant. And in organisations which are explicitly presented as meritocratic, managers favour male employees over equally qualified female employees.
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Art Above EverythingStephanie Elizondo GriestCasual
Early exposure to the arts is becoming increasingly rare in the United States. Budget cuts and the rise of standardized testing have gutted arts programming across the nation. Fewer than half of our high schools offer formal theater instruction anymore. Only 16 percent offer dance classes. Not only are we jeopardizing the future of art by failing to invest in our next generation of practitioners; we are also depriving young people of outlets for self-expression, for confidence and consciousness-raising, for healing, for joy, for fun.
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Funny WeatherOlivia LaingCasual
The other day I read a tweet from a journalist defending people who write gutter pieces by saying: 'Journalism is a dying industry and writers need to pay their rent. We're certainly not rich enough to choose our morals over the need to survive.' I could imagine Derek laughing at that. His whole life was a refutation of her shabby logic. Imagine thinking morals are a luxury for the super-rich!
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> Show books by men too?

> Aahh! Never mind!

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The Virtues of PoetryJames LongenbachAcademic
One of the great advantages of the English language, as a medium for poetry, is its multiplicity of roots: we are used to hearing our original Anglo-Saxon words nestled against imported French or Latinate words in our poetry. Shakespeare: "seas incarnadine." Blake: "invisible worm." If we find this effect in English translations of Baudelaire or Dante we are hearing something that poems written in French or Italian cannot easily do, since those languages are derived more primarily from Latin alone.