writer/blogger, formerly journalist at WSJ, Dow Jones, Reuters, others. #economics #markets, #music, #philosophy, #books, #technology, #photos, etc. (ie hopelessly eclectic) Toronto. May not respond to DMs. Blog at: https://doncurren.blogspot.com
“Perhaps he saw something in Giancarlo Paretti that inspired trust. Perhaps that something was the copious flow of trips to Bora Bora and gifts of Picasso sketches which Paretti lavished on him.” #fraud #controlfraud open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...
the MGM affairnon e ben trovato, e veroopen.substack.com“Earlier this year, podcaster #TimFerriss called #Aschenbrenner “the #Nostradamus of #AI,” telling listeners that his viral paper was “as close to clairvoyant as you could possibly be.” www.wsj.com/finance/leop...
His Wedding Guests Were Arriving—Just as His $45 Billion Fund Was Falling ApartLeopold Aschenbrenner was hailed as the ‘Nostradamus of AI.’ But his Situational Awareness hedge fund took on too much leverage, leading to a crash he never saw coming.www.wsj.com“From a technical perspective, this is what happens when you let #pattern-matching #machines with no real comprehension of what they are doing freely roam the #internet. It’s everything that I have been warning about for years” open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Three reactions to Anthropics’s latest apologiaI wish I could say I was comfortedopen.substack.comSaw a very fine performance by the #MedusaQuartet, part of the #free #concert series at #EdwardsGardens, last night. Microtonals abounded, but a shutout to #AnginedePoitrine got only a moderate response, perhaps reflecting the somewhat “more mature” skew of the crowd. medusaquartet.com
Medusa QuartetHome page of Medusa Quartet, a world group from Torontomedusaquartet.com“ #AI has the potential to reshape the #economy even more dramatically than previous waves of #automation because, rather than merely automating individual tasks, it lowers the cost of #cognition itself.” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
AI Must Enlarge the Economy, Not Divide ItMark Esposito & Aurélie Jean argue that with the right incentives, the technology could enable previously unimagined human activities.www.project-syndicate.org“Designing #AI to imitate #humans, he argued, pushes #technology toward #substitution rather than #augmentation, concentrates power in the hands of those who own the #systems, and leaves ordinary #workers with fewer opportunities to create #value.”
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦“One of the statement’s central claims is that #AI should be steered toward complementing #humans rather than imitating them. That distinction is more consequential than it may seem.” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
“One of the statement’s central claims is that #AI should be steered toward complementing #humans rather than imitating them. That distinction is more consequential than it may seem.” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
AI Must Enlarge the Economy, Not Divide ItMark Esposito & Aurélie Jean argue that with the right incentives, the technology could enable previously unimagined human activities.www.project-syndicate.org“Listen to #Warsh on #economicpolicy, and he throws around a lot of big words that presumably sound impressive to people who don’t know anything about the subject. But there’s no coherent argument behind the verbiage.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
The Bond Market Doesn’t Like BullshitWhy Kevin Warsh just bombedopen.substack.com“the #capitalism espoused by Donald #Trump and the #RepublicanParty is about fighting wars halfway around the world and giving bloated contracts and big tax breaks to make the rich richer.” open.substack.com/pub/deanbake...
Democrats are Socialists: They Support Social Security and MedicareThe Republicans' version of capitalism is about wars and corruptionopen.substack.com“I think it’s really important to have a healthy ecosystem of people discussing #AIsafety … because we all, ultimately, want things to go well.” #AI www.thestar.com/news/canada/... #JacobTsimerman #OpenAI
This U of T professor just won math’s highest honour — and is taking a leave to join OpenAI. Here’s whyFields Medal winner Jacob Tsimerman explains in a sit-down with the Star why artificial intelligence will change what it means to have a career in mathematics.www.thestar.com“Warsh’s answer on #inflation today seemed to be ‘we’re letting the market do our work for us’,” said Lou Brien, economic strategist at DRW Trading. “That was not a good enough answer for the #market.” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
Top Links 1179 Rates up. Samsung's profits explode. The first mechanized factory and the end of the Teamsters.Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Toozeopen.substack.com“The decisive factor in whether Canada's #defence ambitions succeed will be our capacity to collect, assess, and act on #knowledge over time. This is the true battlespace that will define all others.” #Canada #defencespending #CanadaSky
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦“The most decisive #weapons in #cyber and #information operations could be a few 20-year-olds on a shoestring budget going against the most advanced government agencies. A weapon's impact isn't always proportional to its cost or size.” app.cyberimpact.com/newsletter-v...