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qualifiedai··on Establishment of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute
Let's shoot US innovation and leadership in the foot by establishing random limits on foundation model research.

According to EO's guidelines on commpute, something like GPT4 probably falls under reporting guidelines. Also, in the last 10 years GPU compute capabilities grew 1000x. What will be happening even 2 or 5 years from now?

Edit: yes, regulations are necessary but we should regulate applications of AI, not fundamental research in it.

qualifiedai··on Facing 110 years in prison, Sam Bankman-Fried "can't recall" what he did at FTX
I may be wrong, but I think she was not even charged with defrauding patients
qualifiedai··on Facing 110 years in prison, Sam Bankman-Fried "can't recall" what he did at FTX
They where eyeing huge deal from US military
qualifiedai··on Facing 110 years in prison, Sam Bankman-Fried "can't recall" what he did at FTX
Under control like in Russia? No

Under influence - for sure.

Btw, "fun" fact - Theranos CEO was not convicted of defrauding patients or employees. She was only convicted of defrauding investors (many of whom were famous politicians like Kissinger and Shultz)

qualifiedai··on Facing 110 years in prison, Sam Bankman-Fried "can't recall" what he did at FTX
He "donated" (in other countries it is called bribed) enough money to enough politicians to not get in any serious trouble, maybe a slap on the wrist is what he'll get
qualifiedai··on Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
A grad student in Systems Biology and 20k in funding is capable of generating much more "interesting" things than toxic molecules. (Such things are banned by Asilomar's 1975 convention though)
qualifiedai··on Toyota adopts the North American charging standard
They paid their gov loans on time (or early) and with interest. Also getting rid of EV credits would benefit them the most.
qualifiedai··on France looks into increasing uranium enrichment capacity
France gets up to 75% of their energy from nuclear. So the answer to your question is No.

Germany’s decision to close down their nuclear and rely on gas from terrorist state is one of the most profound mistakes of the last 3 decades with serious negative consequences for the Germany and the world.

qualifiedai··on Florida Surgeon General recommends against mRNA vaccines for males aged 18-39
This seems similar to policy adopted by Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark?

https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2477

qualifiedai··on Peter Daszak has a new grant from the NIH to study bat coronaviruses in the wild
what could possibly go wrong this time!

I strongly recommend “Viral” by Ridley and Chan to those who haven’t read it.

qualifiedai··on Offline map test on Apple Watch Ultra for hiking
I love my Garmin Fenix 7 watch. Built in surf session tracking is superb. Lots of other cool features, solar charging and over a week of battery for my use. I ditched my Apple watch for it.

Having said that, one dangerous area where Garmin is missing a boat is their Garmin IQ store - that ecosystem is basically dead with very few useful apps.

qualifiedai··on Most US professors are trained at same few elite universities
and if you check where they were before that last Ph.D step from elite university it would probably be all over the world, especially for STEM.
qualifiedai··on The Ethereum merge is done
wow! It did work, the merge is confirmed, no transactions dropped! Congratulations to all the devs!!!
qualifiedai··on Apple bans accounts of developers from Belarus
This is very stupid. Those in Belarus who can make a living via AppStore are independent from Belarus government or state owned companies for their livelihood. Also they are typically younger and liberal minded.

Now the West has taken their livelihood from them, forcing them to depend more and work for Belarus state. Same stupid policy as with Crimea.

qualifiedai··on Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it
No one can be trusted 100%. That's the whole point of the linked analysis. You assign certain probability ranges (based on facts, past track record, research results, etc.) to various events and then mathematically infer the probability of event in question.
qualifiedai··on Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it
change the title to reflect that they claim that it was an accidental leak. Or just use the page title: "What is the source of COVID-19?"
qualifiedai··on Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it
>>"International trust in anything related to the Chinese government is currently very low"

- there is a long track record leading to this low trust. Based on this we should place a very low prior belief in what ccp says

qualifiedai··on Students Left Behind by Remote Learning
for pre-K: music - singing songs with her class, also dancing/gymnastics (project to a bigger screen). story-time after lunch.

for kindergarten: actually a lot of classes: art, second language (most kids in school are bi-lingual En+Ru), basic reading and math, also music, dance, gymnastics (again bigger screen helps here).

I would say it was actually pretty good and easy on us (parents) for kindergaten. But, yes, it is still tough for pre-K kid as she needed much more attention from us.

qualifiedai··on Students Left Behind by Remote Learning
our two kids (elementary school and pre-school) go to a private school in Bay Area and we are very happy now. They have in-person classes with very strict high covid-related guideliness. When they were required to close they offered an excellent online classes and lowered tuition 35%.

On the other hand, a lot of our friends with kids of similar age are super unhappy about their public schools. The quality of education and online classes is very, very low and they can't re-open in person due to class sizes. I now know several families who basically ran away from public schools to either do homeschooling (with other parents) or private school. Very sad situation to watch

qualifiedai··on Quora goes permanently remote-first
Open office is great for covid world!
qualifiedai··on Police act like laws don't apply to them because of Qualified Immunity
If your are angry about injustice it is wrong to be angry against police and courts enforcing wrong laws.

Demand action from politicians to change those laws (e.g. remove qualified immunity, etc). While protesting is important, engaging with your representatives and VOTING is very important too.

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