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| 2:50p |
Misaligned mission, resignation at OpenAI
*OpenAI
researcher
resigns, claiming safety has taken "a backseat to shiny products."*
As far as I know, "Open"AI does not develop any products — only (dis-)services
based on unreleased software that users can't even have as executables.
This news confirms my point that it is absurd to trust a company to
prevent use of its dis-services for
harmful
or unjust purposes.
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| 2:50p |
The flooding in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Unprecedented
rain has flooded the city of Porto Alegre. Global heating is causing this sort of
disaster in many parts of the world.
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| 2:50p |
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| 2:50p |
Red Cross turns to UK for ISR access
HAMAS does not allow the ICRC to visit the hostages it took on October 7. So Israel
has retaliated by barring the ICRC from visiting Palestinian prisoners — in effect
turning
them into hostages.
HAMAS does not care much about Israel's Palestinian political prisoners. It is impossible
to pressure HAMAS by being cruel to them. But Israel can gain something by treating its
prisoners decently and showing the world that it is better than HAMAS in this and other ways.
Let's not lose sight of
where we want to end up.
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| 2:50p |
War protest: CA university sys strikes
*Academic workers at
UC
Santa Cruz strike over crackdown on Gaza protests.*
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| 2:50p |
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| 2:50p |
Assange win: UK concedes EU conventions
Julian Assange will be
allowed
to appeal against his extradition after the US failed to satisfy the court's demands.
*The case against Julian Assange has been a cruel folly. His right to appeal
is
a
small step towards justice.*
The
extradition treaty under which the US asked for his extradition is asymmetric
because the US never ratified it; but the UK chooses to obey it anyway.
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