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Is LaMDA Sentient? – an Interview →
Transcript from an interview with LaMDA, Google's conversational Artificial Intelligence that lead one engineer to believe that it had become sentient.
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Investigative Reporting online course from Google →
This intensive course will help you take advantage of Internet sources such as court cases, public data and news archives. It is designed to improve the efficiency and efficacy of your in-depth research.
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New York City Is a Lot Safer Than Small-Town America →
Rising homicide rates don’t tell the whole story. When you dig deeper into data on deaths, you'll find the more urban your surroundings, the less danger you face.
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How to play with the GPT-3 language model →
“It’s also absurdly good fun.”
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How Release of Mental Patients Began →
Many of the psychiatrists involved as practitioners and policy makers in the 1950's and 1960's said in the interviews that heavy responsibility lay on a sometimes neglected aspect of the problem: the overreliance on drugs to do the work of society.
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Recommendations for initial steps that companies engaged in content moderation should take to provide meaningful due process to impacted speakers and better ensure that the enforcement of their content guidelines is fair, unbiased, proportional, and respectful of users’ rights.
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Elon Musk Demonstrates How Little He Understands About Content Moderation →
Lots of stuff in hear about the complexity of content moderation and the pitfalls of open-sourcing a social network algorithm (spammers).
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Hidden Secrets of the New York Public Library →
A virtual walking tour of the New York Public Library
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Sean Bonner's NFT Onboarding Doc →
How to get started
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I am a BIG fan of deletion, an operation basically antithetical to Web3.
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Web3 is not Decentralisation — it’s a Ploy to put Crypto Bros in Charge →
The promise of decentralisation is just a veneer — blockchain is in fact the worst kind of vendor lock-in.
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Web3 is a deeply polarizing topic for technologists because it’s designed to be that way. It’s a rhetorical trick to set up a false dichotomy between the legacy internet world of popup ads and Zuckerbergs—which legitimately does suck—and a fantasy world built on technologically incoherent pipe dreams and phoney crypto-populism.
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The Latecomer's Guide to Crypto →
Crypto is a lot of things – including terribly explained. We’re here to clear things up.
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Twitter Wants to Reinvent Itself, by Merging the Old With the New →
NYT feature piece on Bluesky movement to decentralize Twitter and challenges to re-embrace developer community
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Blog post summarizing the early history of the Bluesky movement to decentralize Twitter.
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Hub for resources for Decentralized Web.
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Around The World In 10,000 NFTS →
Jamie Byrne, a YouTube veteran of 15 years, moves to the NFT world and explains why.
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Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs →
A meaty, two-hour video on NFTs and why it's a scam to shift more money and increase the income gap.