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Woke or Witch-Hunt?

May 21, 2022May 21, 2022 ~ cafebedouin

"At the protest, I met Tulsi Patel, a postdoc at Columbia. Patel tells me about a new bullying policy at Columbia, which she helped to write, to deal with “power-based harassment” that doesn’t fall into the already illegal categories like sex and race-based harassment. “We recommended calling it the Office of Conflict Resolution, just to … Continue reading Woke or Witch-Hunt?

The Map by Venkatesh Rao

May 9, 2022May 9, 2022 ~ cafebedouin ~ 2 Comments

"If only, the argument went, you could discover the exact opposite territory — not literally; that was in the middle of the ocean, but some sort of training-data antonym in latent space — and the exact set of tweaks to make to the training code, the Antimap would emerge at the Antipode, and begin its … Continue reading The Map by Venkatesh Rao

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