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The Other Bubble
The Other Bubble
Buried in the 8000 words I wrote last week was a worrying story — that Microsoft considered drastic measures to free up  capacity in its US-based servers for GPUs to power the AI boom. In an email shared with me by a source from earlier this year, Microsoft's senior leadership team
The Other Bubble
The Map is Eating the Territory: The Political Economy of AI
The Map is Eating the Territory: The Political Economy of AI
It's all driven by who gets what
Rather than appealing to some vague notion of the awesomeness of progress, or the malignity of technology, we want, collectively, to coordinate on paths of technological development that will have spread benefits as broadly as possible, while mitigating for, or compensating for the costs.
LLMs should not be viewed as a substitute for high quality human generated knowledge. They should instead be viewed as an obligate complement to such knowledge - a means of making it more useful, which doesn’t have much independent worth without it.
The Map is Eating the Territory: The Political Economy of AI
Misinformation is the symptom, not the disease | Daniel Williams
Misinformation is the symptom, not the disease | Daniel Williams
Explore philosopher Daniel Williams' perspective on the multifaceted nature of misinformation as a symptom of a larger societal issue, challenging the notion that debunking and censorship alone can provide a comprehensive solution to this pressing concern.
If misinformation is a societal disease, it should be possible to cure societies of various problems by eradicating it.
Misinformation is the symptom, not the disease | Daniel Williams