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Sunday Good Reads for December 10th, 2023 [1]

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Date: 2023-12-10

🧠 ‘AI Alignment’ isn’t a problem — it’s a myth. (substack.com); Very good overview of why Ai alignment is the wrong kind of concern.

We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus - Charlie's Diary (antipope.org): Charlie Stross wishes billionaires spent less attention on sci-fi writers.

1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study | Ars Technica: Maybe we haven’t come a long way ….

Misinformation researcher Joan Donovan accuses Harvard of bowing to Facebook - The Washington Post: Disturbing story of how Facebook apparently got a researcher critical of their products fired.

bess in show - by Allison Epstein (substack.com): Another hilarious Dirtbag entry. Go subscribe.

Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation (404media.co): The interesting piece of this is article is how the security flaw demonstrated what data OpenAI used in ChatGPT’s training.

Silicon Valley vs. teenage girls - by Ryan Broderick (garbageday.email): The world would be a better place if mor eof our tech overlords just stopped trying so hard to be cool.

Uvalde shooting shows contrast in preparedness between students and police | The Texas Tribune: Warning: this is the most infuriating thing you will read this week, maybe this year.

Webtoons and Webcomics Keep Scrolling into Print (publishersweekly.com): How a webtoons, aided by a site specifically makes reading them easy, are driving comics publishing.

Can rocks absorb enough CO2 to fight climate change? These companies think so - The Verge: A look at one carbon scrubbing option and all its difficulties.

The December Comfort Watches, Day Nine: Bolt | Whatever (scalzi.com): Bolt is an underrated classic.

Battlestar Galactica could never get made with today’s fandom - Polygon: Good argument about how studios’ relationship with fans has changed for the worse.

The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Soars To Victory In A Triumphant Finale | Defector: Two bloggers try the British Bake-off technical challenges and make themselves crazy for our amusement.

Have as great a week as possible, everyone!

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