This man is going to be a father 🥴

How would you distinguish between a company making a product that people enjoy and find useful (therefore maybe generating some brand loyalty and retaining customers) from intentionally generating human emotional attachment? Is it unethical to sell a car with comfortable leather seats?

I seem to recall some of that happening with the weird quantum consciousness stuff. But usually philosophers or science are more interested in understanding and cataloging the epistemological moves themselves than wading into the first order debates, so heterodox theories are good fodder.

Maybe they will add a header tomorrow, but that doorway seems like a done deal

from a grassy knoll

Not defending the deal, but the terms actually sounded pretty favorable to Intel. Accelerates the path to cash, no pesky grant conditions, votes with the board. Market doesn't seem to mind the dilution www.intc.com/news-events/...

Paywall :(

I'm still smitten with the CC style human deed. Probably doesn't work for ToSes or PPs, but still fun to think about.

Basing models on public web content is somewhat closer to public involvement than, say, printed encyclopedias. There are also some intriguing ideas to do RL based on social preferences (though, I think may lead to new issues), eg arxiv.org/abs/2211.15006 and www.anthropic.com/research/col...

It's not even true!!

Ah jeez. Very glad you're ok

certainly spicy!

I always assumed he was implicitly critiquing British empire. ie take the most positive version of it imaginable, and show how contact is *still* morally questionable

am I being trolled lol

I see! Depending on specifics, policy outcome could similar to a permission-only regime, may reinforce incumbents