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Modeling p(doom) with TrojanGDP
How long will ape derived brains remain dominant?
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K. Liam Smith
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Forecasting the College Enrollment Gender Gap
Will male enrollment continue to decline?
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K. Liam Smith
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Journalism in the Age of Many-to-Many Communication
A review of Batya Ungar-Sargon's book, 'Bad News.'
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K. Liam Smith
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Is Bisexuality a Political Statement?
After the 2016 presidential election, a massive surge of liberal young women began identifying as bisexual. But won't have sex with other women.
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K. Liam Smith
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Interview with David Auerbach and Review of 'Meganets'
A lot of people are worried that AI will take over the world, but Auerbach’s new book raises the specter of a different threat: what if we’ve already…
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K. Liam Smith
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Forecasting Authoritarian and Sovereign Power uses of Large Language Models
What will the Chinese Communist Party do with a Large Language Model?
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K. Liam Smith
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Postmodern Faith and Police Violence
Tyre Nichols’ brutal killing highlights how woke oppressor-oppressed narratives determine the tragedy of Nichols' death not by the skin color of the…
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K. Liam Smith
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Geometric Intuition for why ChatGPT is NOT Sentient
As a machine learning researcher, I've been aggressively asked the last few weeks if ChatGPT is sentient. Thinking about language as geometry explains…
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K. Liam Smith
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