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Perspective on diversity in Mustread
My short perspective piece on the value of diversity and DEI policies was just published in Mustread. This one is in Finnish.
A manuscript version here
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Opinion. Inheritance tax debate needs attention on values (HS)
A short opinion piece in Helsingin Sanomat on inheritance tax, with Säde Hormio
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Opinion. Public authorities should leave X (SK)
My opinion piece “Public authorities should leave X” published in Suomen Kuvalehti.
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Unpopular ideas on AI and epistemic humility
In this preprint Renne Pesonen and I argue that often arguments against machine intelligence are actually motivated by intuitions against machine agency.
In our view, the striking thing about LLMs is that they are an existence proof of structurally simple (but large!) systems that can perform many of the tasks we think require intelligence. The fact that they might do those things in a “wrong”, non-human, way is beside the point: Something we thought could only be brought about by the (so far) unexplained powers of the human mind is now done by a shallow system. This should give us pause, some epistemic humility and antidote to human cognitive exceptionalism.
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Fediverse reading list
I’ve become increasingly interested in the fediverse. Thinking in terms of protocols instead of privately owned platforms could give us ways to address some of the epistemic challenges associated with the new AI-structured information landscape. My plan is to write something on this later on, but I’ll start by gradually compiling a reading list on both technical and more conceptual thinking on the fediverse. I’ve been asking people for recommendations on what to read.
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