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@Sam_L_Shead shared
On Oct 22, 2021
NEW: Forget AGI. Peter Thiel thinks people should be more worried about surveillance AI, which he described as a "communist totalitarian technology" https://t.co/5fgnA9y78r
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Palantir’s Peter Thiel thinks people should be concerned about surveillance AI

Palantir’s Peter Thiel thinks people should be concerned about surveillance AI

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel said this week that people should be more worried about "surveillance AI" than artificial general intelligences.

@math_rachel shared
On Oct 22, 2021
Great post about using automation as a way to support and supplement manual work, not to replace it. By @JonathanGilmou3 about @COVID19Tracking, although I think the lessons apply more broadly 5/ https://t.co/pyKIHKnQGl
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20,000 Hours of Data Entry: Why We Didn’t Automate Our Data Collection

20,000 Hours of Data Entry: Why We Didn’t Automate Our Data Collection

Recognizing a critical need for publicly available, comprehensive data, they founded The COVID Tracking Project, which eventually relied on hundreds of volunteers who entered data …

@ibogost shared
On Oct 23, 2021
@RickHills2 As with Google, citation counts certainly measure influence. Is that what we want to construe as success, though? Far worse than citation counts, tho, is h-index, which is influence on a hamster wheel. As it happens, I've written about this too: https://t.co/hbOsAUsqrN
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For Google, Everything Is a Popularity Contest

For Google, Everything Is a Popularity Contest

The limits of the search giant's philosophy