I am currently having the displeasure of watching Peter Thiel's keynote at the 2013 "Effective Altruism (EA) Summit". Yes. I too didn't understand what Thiel and "altruism" have to do with each other, but it made sense after I knew that EAs are super effective at the opposite of "altruism".

I can't believe it is already our FOURTH Anniversary. Happy anniversary to us 🎉🎉 🎉 We have a small but mighty team. Each of these projects could be institutes of their own. I've been working at DAIR twice as long as I was as the two long years at Google, and it flew by because that's what happens when you love your work and are surrounded by great people 🥰 Check out therojects we're working on at www.dair-institute.org/projects/

There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters.

How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis

Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscar...

My 2 cents on so-called Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). AGI is a fictional, undefined machine god, which is causing harm and goes against the backbone of engineering principles.

Its near "super intelligence" "replacing professionals" in the PR rounds, 60 minutes and such, then once everyone is convinced and uses them for legal and medical advice, following the deceptive marketing, they slip it in the terms of service that you shouldn't do that. By @npub1v9aa...5z6v and @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users

OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbo...

🗣️🗣️🗣️ This Thursday, I'm going to be hosting part of this in person event in San Francisco along with Alex Hanna, Ph.D. The event is organized by an organization near and dear to both of us, called Respond Crisis Translation, doing front line work which is even more important right now. ➡️ RSVP at bit.ly/rct-rsvp

Stanford is prosecuting 11 pro-Palestine protesters on felony vandalism charges & demanding $300K+ in restitution. Consider signing this petition to drop the charges:

Support the Stanford 12! Drop the charges on students!

We, students, faculty, community members, and concerned organizations, demand that the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office drop the fel...

Unsurprising although disgusting to see my alma mater on the wrong side of genocide. Watch them use the activism of the students whose lives they’re trying to destroy in some orientation story in a few decades.

Translation: After we built an addictive tool based on stolen data, exploited labor and plundering the environment, which pushes kids to commit suicides, we were like, why not cash in on "erotica"? After all, this is what building so-called AGI that "benefits humanity" looks like.

What's the latest excuse for bothsidesing colonization and apartheid culminating in a livestreamed genocide?

Reminder to apply to AddisCoder, a one month free algorithms and coding camp for high schoolers in Ethiopia. Deadline is December 31. Spread the word to those who may benefit from the program.

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