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View More NewsAmodei skepticism: “The calls by four American tech CEOs for a slowdown in AI development is a big economic and political moment, though to what end isn’t clear,” writes The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, responding to the Dario Amodei letter published over the weekend that called for an AI development slowdown, which was quickly agreed to by the heads of other major AI companies. The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason help you make sense of the day’s news every morning. “The CEOs can also see how the politics of AI are moving toward panic. The…
Fourteen years ago, Ken Jouppi, who had operated a charter airplane business in Alaska since the 1970s, agreed to fly a passenger from Fairbanks to Beaver, one of the state’s dry jurisdictions. The passenger’s luggage included 72 cans of Budweiser and Bud Light, which she planned to share with her husband on his birthday. Although most of the beer was boxed, a six-pack “was packed only in a grocery bag and would have been in plain view to Jouppi as he was loading the airplane,” the Alaska Supreme Court noted last year. State troopers discovered the beer before the plane…
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Karl Popper invited us to be clear about the problem we are trying to solve. Testing a claim is not the same as evaluating the character of the person making it, and the latter cannot be asked to stand in for the former. Because it takes cognitive effort to parse data, weigh arguments, and assess logical coherence, we often default to name-calling, ad hominem, and guilt-by-association instead. This is a lazy and unscrupulous way to argue, and it drags down discourse, not least because its prevalence has made it unremarkable.A news item in the Guardian on 31 August by the…
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From his post last week: I received the two emails below earlier in the month. They’re vaguely coherent. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised…
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For the second time this year, James Talarico, the Texas Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, appeared on a late-night talk show only to…