@_candroid@Rohanburdened It would be good if people had a skeptical reaction, but what they actually have is immediately accepting any stat that is presented as supporting their views while applying impossible standards to any stat that is presented as challenging them.
I think what Aella's big kink survey showed is that literally no matter a studies actual sample size, even if its hundreds of thousands of people, the first reply by people who think the findings are invalid is just going to be a mindless "low sample size tho"
Today @herasight reveals PGT-H, a new embryo test that can help reduce disease risk in children from consanguineous couples.
For first-cousin couples, we estimate intellectual disability risk of about 5% without screening, compared with about 2% in the outbred population.
No one should be able to order a bioweapon through the mail.
@IFP & @JoinFAI are proud to co-lead an open letter calling for mandatory DNA synthesis screening & recordkeeping.
Signatories include:
- Sam Altman, CEO & Co-Founder, OpenAI
- Dario Amodei, CEO & Co-Founder, Anthropic
- David Baker, Director, Institute for Protein Design; 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient
- Patrick Collison, CEO & Co-Founder, Stripe
- Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator
- Demis Hassabis, CEO, Google DeepMind; 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient
- Emily Leproust, CEO & Co-Founder, Twist Bioscience
- Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School
- Gerald W. Parker, former Special Assistant to the President for Biosecurity and Pandemic Response
- Mustafa Suleyman, CEO, Microsoft AI
- Alex Tabarrok, Professor of Economics, George Mason University
- Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer, Meta; Founder, Scale AI
- Christine E. Wormuth, President & CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative; 25th Secretary of the Army
Read the letter and see the full list of signatories: https://t.co/BwZiJXw3JT
Many DNA synthesis companies voluntarily screen orders to mitigate biosecurity risks, but no law requires them to do so.
Leaders in AI, biotech, life sciences, national security, and the nucleic acid synthesis industry agree that Congress should act to strengthen safeguards against biological threats.
@deanwball put it well in the WSJ:
“If you’re synthesizing the stuff that yields biological life and viruses, we’re asking you to screen to see whether it is dangerous in some way. That seems like a reasonable thing for society to insist upon.”
@CoelThomas Toisekseen jos nuorten kofeiinin käyttöä halutaan kuitenkin vähentää, senkään ei tarvitse olla heti ensimmäisenä valtion tehtävä. Nuorilla on vanhemmat ja vanhemmat saavat asettaa jälkikasvulleen rajoja ihan valtiosta riippumatta.
@CoelThomas Ei pitäisi. Nuoret käyttävät kofeiinia enimmäkseen fiksusti ja todelliseen tarpeeseen (joka pitkälti johtuu luonnottoman aikaisista aikatauluista koulussa).
@GaryMarcus@geoffreyhinton FWIW Hinton is using a nonstandard definition of consciousness, he doesn't claim LLMs have qualia.
(It'd be really nice if he didn't do that because the media isn't going to care once they've gotten the soundbite out of him, but it's not to say that he doesn't understand AI.)
@joutsenikko@PanuLaaksonen Pohjoismainen risti on saattanut joskus satoja vuosia sitten liittyä jotenkin kristinuskoon, mutta kyllä se nykypäivänä on ihan vain Pohjoismaiden symboli.
@laulukuoro@Ullavaan Tietenkään koulussa ei kuulu järjestää kaikille oppilaille lähtökohtaisesti pakollista ohjelmaa, johon kuuluu islamilaisten huivien käyttöä ja oppien opiskelua.
@HissCapital@KurronenS Nuoret todellakaan eivät ole tyhmiä, siksi harvat heistä kuvittelevat koskaan itse saavansa mitään eläkettä. Palkasta menee sievoinen summa eläkemaksuihin toisten ihmisten eläkkeiden rahoittamiseen, oma eläke pitää lisäksi rahoittaa sijoittamalla itse.
You could have got wildly rich picking stocks based on the principle: "the rationalists are right about everything, except the idea that picking stocks is a fool's game"