#OuEstEcoSceptique ? Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋 @o.simardcasanova.net a été injustement suspendu par Twitter à cause d’un tweet pourtant ironique sur les vaccins 🤯 Pour rester en contact avec lui, vous pouvez vous abonner par email à cette adresse ⤵️ Merci de RT en masse reboot.ecosceptique.com/twitter.html

My Ph.D. level topics course on the #EconomicsofAI is now available for free on @Coursera – check it out here youtube.com/watch?v=ubXE0R… if you are a student or economist interested in the topic #EconTwitter 👨‍🏫 – and sign up at coursera.org/learn/economic…

Interested in learning something new in the #NewYear2022 ? Try out my online course on "The Economics of AI" #EconOfAI - you can check out the intro video below and sign up for free on Coursera at coursera.org/learn/economic… #econtwitter

New: "Near-Utilitarian Alternatives" explores the many ways to reject #utilitarianism in theory while still agreeing with its most important practical implications, i.e. concerning the importance of beneficence and #EffectiveAltruism: utilitarianism.net/near-utilitari…

What's the most effective way to tackle climate change? My take on research in effective altruism to date. It seems that many popular approaches (eg recycling, planting trees) don't obviously work or are expensive ($100+ per tonne CO2), but... /1

In New York, this conductor thought nobody knew it was his birthday. He was wrong. This is how his orchestra surprised him. It's the joy we need in the world right now. 🎶❤️

It’s time to publicly announce something I’ve been working on for quite some time: the Good Science Project. goodscienceproject.org

Meta has released a huge new AI language model called OPT-175B and made it available to a broad array of researchers. It also released a technical report with some truly extraordinary findings about just how dangerous this machine can be. 🧵 #AI #OPT175B

A game for you: I used GPT-3 to compose visual metaphors for intellectuals and public figures, then DALL•E 2 to draw (quite remarkable!) images for each. See if you can guess now which person goes with each A.I. created metaphor/image (all 24 metaphor images are down below): 🧵

Tax cuts for the rich lead to higher income inequality. But they do not have any significant effect on economic growth or unemployment. Evidence for 18 OECD countries over 1965-2015 in this new paper published in Socio-Economic Review:

With effective altruism in the news absolutely everyone has been publishing their takes on the movement, and I keep thinking of things I want to say in response to all of them but don't have time. So let's try this: 1 like = 1 opinion on effective altruism and its critics.

I go on holiday for one week and when I come back EA is on the cover of time magazine :P

Here’s a fact that most people don’t know: Single-use plastic grocery bags are actually the environmentally friendly option by a huge margin.

AI has been destroying humans at adversarial games, like Chess or Go, for a bit. But now it is successfully outperforming humans at Diplomacy, the classic multiplayer game that requires natural language negotiations over chat, as well as strategic lying. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Having read the paper & supplementary materials, watched narrated game & spoken to one of the human players I'm pretty concerned. The Science Magazine paper centres 'human-AI cooperation' & the bot is not supposed to lie. However, videos clearly show deception/manipulation 1/3

Je n'aime pas le foot. Mais faudrait pas le dire. Pas maintenant. youtu.be/exEc7LjVWFA

In my view, this email would have been offensive in the 90s and it is offensive now, for good reason. The apology fails badly to fully take responsibility or display an understanding of the harm the views expressed represent. 🧵 x.com/anderssandberg…

Summer applications just launched! Mentors include AI safety researchers from Anthropic, OpenAI, @deepmind, MIRI, Center for Human-Compatible AI, , Future of Humanity Institute, and more! serimats.org

Making agents, especially making agents that can self-improve, using powerful cognitive engines like GPT-4 is a really bad idea and OpenAI should not permit this

A new paper on A.I., economic growth, and existential risk. web.stanford.edu/~chadj/existen…