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‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.

Last week, David Robinson resigned from OpenAI. He’d been in charge of writing the safety reports for new models and came to believe that OpenAI and the broader artificial intelligence industry lack the safety culture necessary to protect the world from what they’re building. Robinson has an unusual background for an A.I. frontier lab staffer. He’s a Rhodes scholar and Yale Law graduate, he founded a civil rights nonprofit and he advised the Biden White House. He did not come up in the hothou...

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Culture

There aren’t 100 good TV shows

The article argues that the overwhelming number of TV shows often leads to a perception of quality over quantity, suggesting that truly exceptional programming is far more limited than many believe.

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Culture

Something Like People

The article explores the complexities of human relationships and identity, delving into how our connections shape our understanding of self and others in a rapidly changing world.

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Politics

Against Laissez-Faire Democracy

In a new paper, Brennan and Freiman argue persuasively that: the arguments against laissez-faire capitalism apply in a rather straight way against laissez-faire democracy. This should be a rather startling result, considering that laissez-faire capitalism is widely rejected, yet laissez-faire democracy is widely accepted. All the typical market failure arguments–externalities, asymmetric information, principal-agent problems, behavioral […] The post Against Laissez-Faire Democracy appeared fi...

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