Alex John London
unityofvirtue.bsky.social
Alex John London
@unityofvirtue.bsky.social
Author: For the a common Good: Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics (OUP) and K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies at CMU. Recent papers:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00868
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100622
Love that face, omg
November 10, 2023 at 1:25 PM
May it live long and prosper
November 9, 2023 at 1:49 PM
Looks like a very fun class. Thanks for sharing.
November 9, 2023 at 1:40 PM
I’m not clicking the link, but this “skeet” is a thing of beauty.
November 9, 2023 at 3:41 AM
Come on, man! That’s too kind.
November 8, 2023 at 10:33 PM
In the present case I’m at the stage where the question is: what do you even mean by “issues of values.”
November 8, 2023 at 10:32 PM
I get it. I would walk away but I’m afraid this boulder and this hill are all I have.
November 8, 2023 at 10:30 PM
To be honest, working to get to the point where folks want to hear this is tiring.
November 8, 2023 at 10:29 PM
Since the LLMs like to make sh@t it—why didn’t I go to Stanford after all??—it couldn’t either way. But I should give it a try. All incoming email will go to my LLM assistant from now on.
November 8, 2023 at 9:40 PM
It seems like decisions in big tech firms are increasingly being made by tech/business leaders who either don’t consider the ethical issues or don’t regard them as on par with the goal of being first and trying to maximize revenue.
November 4, 2023 at 9:11 PM
6. Back to emptiness. A great candle in the cold emptiness flickered and vanished in a spray of dust—as we all will one day.
November 4, 2023 at 3:16 AM
5. The brittle metal in their wild hearts absorbed energy until one day the lattice of life fell apart and the stars exploded in a cosmic calamity. The light went out. Atoms were spread across the universe. All in silence. Back to darkness.
November 4, 2023 at 3:15 AM
4. the pressure and the heat were so intense that the star produced the first iron in its heart. Heavy and brittle, iron consumed rather than produced energy. In their core these stars were pressing their energy into a mighty task that turned their hearts to iron. It was death.
November 4, 2023 at 3:14 AM
3. In the beginning the first stars were really fecund. In their wild hearts the reactions produced helium and oxygen and these combinations produced more light and heat, building the intensity of reaction. Until, at some point,
November 4, 2023 at 3:14 AM
Fewer, better movies of increasing depth and brilliance—but it’s not possible.
November 2, 2023 at 2:19 AM