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Effective Altruism—which comes from the Greek “effectos” meaning utilitarianism and “alte” meaning utilitarianism—is a utilitarian theory of utilitarianism according to which we should maximise utility by stealing attention from progressive causes to promote utilitarianism. 🧵

Obi NYC has a min wage formula that penalizes companies for inefficiency. The busier drivers seem, the less each ride is worth. To keep wages low, Uber and Lyft inflate driver efficiency stats by erasing idle time. We estimate millions at stake monthly. bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

📺Watch our webinar replay: ➡️James DiGiovanni on how NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission use data to protect pay & cut congestion ➡️Reuben Binns @[email protected] analyses our data to show harm of Uber dynamic pricing to UK workers ➡️Veena Dubal on algorithmic wage discrimination & the political economy youtube.com/watch?v=OrlM4p…

The Media won't show his picture and say his name. Will you?

'LLMs can't really reason, they just pattern match' Wittgenstein: 'ah, but how do we know they aren't following their own private reasoning rules which are the same as ours, except when the reasoning problem has superficial differences to their training data?'

Maybe people who believe LLMs can reason are actually using a different meaning of 'reason', which is exactly the same as ours except it also includes pattern matching by LLMs 🤔🤔🤔

NEW: Should Europe invest billions in A𝗜? Without redirecting the current trajectory, Europe's industrial policy risks further entrenching Big tech's dominance. But there are alternative pathways forward! This collection of essays by AI Now Institute sets out to provide EU

Awesome, it screws over everything that the UK is good at (arts) in favour of some tech billionaires from the US who don't even pay taxes here

Conflict of interest (COI) leads to a strong downward valuation and credibility of research output Zingales Tommaso Valletti @LancieriFilippo Joshua Levy John M Barrios🇨🇺🇺🇦 Shashank Singh The paper advocates for a clearer COI policy: the profession’s #me-consult-too moment

From our Dying For Data webinar, Reuben Binns @[email protected] explains how dynamic pricing is affecting drivers’ pay. Watch the full video on Youtube shorturl.at/SDv0V

I doubt any of this is true. At most these comments highlight a woeful lack of expertise in Whitehall on application of GDPR/DPA and the common law duty of confidentiality. All ICO really did was provide assurances that data protection wasn't a barrier. x.com/Dominic2306/st…

You'll come a-texting Matilda with me

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1. Firms that lure workers with false earnings claims are breaking the law. FTC has taken action against @Lyft for deceiving drivers about how much they could expect to earn on its platform. We've ordered Lyft to stop this conduct & pay $2.1 million. ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

If you want to see the other graph you need, to understand our world, it is this one. It depicts the rising wealth/income ratio. Basically, the value of all wealth (businesses, real estate, financial assets, etc) is rising much faster than all income (which is just GDP).

new from me: I’ve teamed up with Anastasia Bektimirova to explore why so much policy work is basically pointless. We walk through the mistakes tech companies, consultancies, think tanks, and lobbyists make, how it impoverishes debate, and how we can improve it. 🧵

This man is why Rihanna forgot Onana’s name

New paper by @rdbinns and myself on why genAI hallucinates and its implications in terms of libel and data protection is now strangely relevant after David Mayer-gate 🤣 where individuals may or may have used law to remove themselves fromChatGPT arxiv.org/abs/2412.06356