Today is the anniversary of the Johnstown Flood of 1889. Each year the Johnstown Flood NPS lights luminaries on the dam and throughout the park--one for each of the 2,000+ people who died. It's a beautiful and touching tribute.

Finally someone gets it.

Are the #AI CEOs warning about #AGI more like (A) oil exs warning that burning their product will warm the earth of (B) Viagra salespeople warning that their product might cause a 4 hour erection, (C) other

This but when the subject is mathematics, Loooollllll

This is what you get without an HOA.

We have one place in our neighborhood that isn’t governed by our HOA and this is what we get as a result.

(Hat tip to OK State for their photo casnews.okstate.edu/department-pho…)

They wanted to replace the people who work the helpline with a chatbot that suddenly started making harmful recommendations.
vice.com/en/article/qjv…

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I had lots of fun chatting with John Danaher about the value alignment problem for large language models. I share some thoughts about value alignment problem as an important framework for talking about ethical and engineering-safety questions 👇

What gets measured gets done, but what factors shape decisions about measurement in the work to further #HealthEquity ? Register now for our #PopHealthRT workshop 6/21 to explore the design and use of health equity metrics: ow.ly/kLgw50OoeEt #SDOH

Liberalism is revolutionary exactly bc it seeks to create a public sphere that permits individuals to pursue what they & their community regard as the good life—including factions who want to topple that order & take that liberty from everyone else.
compactmag.com/article/libera…

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Registration for UAI 2023 is now open! auai.org/uai2023/regist…
#UAI2023 will take place at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jul 31-Aug 4, with banquet Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens!

Early bird deadline is June 22

Liberalism is revolutionary exactly bc it seeks to create a public sphere that permits individuals to pursue what they & their community regard as the good life—including factions who want to topple that order & take that liberty from everyone else.
compactmag.com/article/libera…