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Future Proof

Alex Stamos on The Growing AI Hacking Risk, & The 'Almost Religious' Safety Debate | Future Proof

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I think one of the criticisms that has been somewhat fairly leveled at the big L labs has been that there's been a lot of focus on alignment that the way you protect against these models is you train them to not want to do bad things when maybe just putting a firewall in place could do it, right? Like we don't have to spend gigajoules of energy changing the model weights when you can just actually apply tried and tested cyber security ideas that we've had for decades to contain these models during training.

EconTalk

Addiction, Faith, and the Limits of Willpower (with Meghan O'Gieblyn)

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the choices that most shape our lives are the "choices in between the choices," or the ones we barely notice making at all.

It's Been a Minute

The secret pain of your high school bully | It's Been a Minute

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You can hear the audience immediately react whether they realize it or not. they have an understanding of what everybody has deemed is more attractive and more beautiful. So already I'm kind of like showing the audience that like we're all a little complicit in this.

Book of the Day

A conversation with Tomi Adeyemi on her new novel 'The Siren'

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You go to these places and you think no one is ever going to be able to meet you there. Then you write a story and suddenly hundreds of thousands if not millions of people are meeting you there.

Hidden Brain

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

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Most of us assume that negative experiences will harm us, and positive experiences will help us. But psychologists have found that bad experiences are often more instructive than good ones — we learn more from our failures than from our successes, and we grow more from adversity than from ease.

Fresh Air

How Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought the culture wars to the military

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Usually secretaries of defense do everything they can to sort of protect the military from our sort of divisive politics and those culture wars. And Hegseth was really the first secretary of defense I've seen in my lifetime who invited that into the Pentagon and made it a central plank of his identity and leadership.

upstartsmedia.com

Exclusive: Fin Ships A New AI Agent In First Release Since $3.6B Salesforce Buy

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The company's bet: customers will increasingly use one, or just a couple, of more powerful agents to handle cross-functional tasks, instead of replacing current human job functions on a one to one basis. "It would be sad if we end up reinventing the world with a dozen different, disparate tools," Traynor says.

TED Radio Hour

The women missing from music

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The first thought that crossed my mind was this, oh, I bet this is just a big list. It doesn't mean their work was any good. And then I was immediately shocked with my own thought because I went, what? Why did I think that?

The Business of Tech

Small budgets, big ideas: Meet NZ’s Dyson Award stars

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An expert thinks he knows it all, but he's also rather inhibited by his experience, his knowledge, and he finds it difficult to steer off the well-known path. Whereas if you have a lack of experience, but huge curiosity, and you approach your new challenge with naivety, I think it's sort of easier for you as an inexperienced designer to come up with something different and to follow a different path.

The a16z Show

How Valon Rebuilt a $13 Trillion Industry From Scratch

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deploying the technology into large regulated enterprises is ultimately as much a change-management challenge as a technical one

Hidden Brain

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

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Most of us believe that bad things happen to bad people, and good things happen to good people. We call this the 'just world hypothesis.' The problem is that it's not true — and our commitment to this belief can lead us to blame victims of misfortune, rather than help them.

Fresh Air

‘Showbiz!’ entertainer Murray Hill became what he didn’t see

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Ladies and gentlemen, and I can say that now because this administration thinks there's only two genders, and I'm both of them.

ai-supremacy.com

AI: Off the Charts

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Meanwhile personal agents are likely to accelerate token usage but a lot of it might not have much economic value but still require tremendous amounts of compute. This could result in a Capex compute mismatch that is markedly bearish for the AI boom.

noahpinion.blog

There is no “Indian Question”

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Throughout most of the 2010s, there was a popular notion that society should basically ignore and shun people like that, and that if we all simply shunned them, and pressured our friends and colleagues to shun them, they and their views would vanish from American society — or at least remain marginalized. That approach failed. Anti-immigrant ideas didn't remain marginalized — in fact, they took over the country, despite their continued unpopularity among the general American public.

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Loneliness, Resilience, and the Right Choice: Poet Diane Ackerman on What She Learned While Working at a Suicide Prevention Hotline

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So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.