Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans
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Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans
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Re: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans
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> Curing Malaria is cool but is there nothing in Seattle that he can contribute to?
Nothing in this sentence gave you pause for a second thought? Would you replace Jonas Salk with a community garden?
The criticism of Altman is apt because he hasn't achieved anything of definitive social value. (Not in a way someone else wouldn't have on a similar timeline.) Equating anything he's done to the eradication of malaria is pure scope failure.
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Through their work, the gates foundation has probably saved millions of lives, maybe tens of millions of lives, over the past 25 years.
They’ve also been deeply involved with various education reforms in the US. They’re definitely active here.
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> Curing Malaria is cool but is there nothing in Seattle that he can contribute to? Nothing in this sentence gave you pause for a second thought? Would you replace Jonas Salk with a community garden? The criticism of Altman is apt because he hasn't achieved anything of definitive social value. (Not in a way someone else wouldn't have on a similar timeline.) Equating anything he's done to the eradication of malaria is…
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> Curing Malaria is cool but is there nothing in Seattle that he can contribute to? Nothing in this sentence gave you pause for a second thought? Would you replace Jonas Salk with a community garden? The criticism of Altman is apt because he hasn't achieved anything of definitive social value. (Not in a way someone else wouldn't have on a similar timeline.) Equating anything he's done to the eradication of malaria is…
Maybe let's not feed green-account trolls with words of calculated malice.
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Seattle is home to ~750,000 people. Malaria affects ~250,000,000 people a year.
From https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants it looks like Seattle is the city that they've given the most grants to - 3,609 so far.
https://lite.datasette.io/?csv=https://static.simonwillison....
Re: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans
#8Concerning isn't even the word. Looks like those military contracts and all that government money has really heated things up for OpenAI's goals for human civilization.
Re: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Curing Malaria is cool but is there nothing in Seattle that he can contribute to? Nothing in this sentence gave you pause for a second thought? Would you replace Jonas Salk with a community garden? The criticism of Altman is apt because he hasn't achieved anything of definitive social value. (Not in a way someone else wouldn't have on a similar timeline.) Equating anything he's done to the eradication of malaria is…
Maybe let's not feed green-account trolls with words of calculated malice.
> let's not feed green-account trolls with words of calculated malice
Let's "assume good faith" and "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize" [1].
They may be a troll, or an idiot. Or they may be reflecting an increasingly-prevalent view that people should stick to their "own" territory, for various definitions of "own." (Whether this fuel anti-immigrant xenophobia, colonist/coloniser moral binaries, or the dismissal or a disease eradicator.)
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Through their work, the gates foundation has probably saved millions of lives, maybe tens of millions of lives, over the past 25 years. They’ve also been deeply involved with various education reforms in the US. They’re definitely active here.
OP should check out Effective Altruism & studies on what the most effective way to spend your resources on is.