🦾 Effective accelerationists; Biden AI EO & Openness; and what makes a question “good”?

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Now on to the show, where I contextualize research and news about:

• ❓’Good’ questions & AI

• 🪟 Openness & the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on AI.

• 🦾 The problematic ideology of Silicon Valley: effective accelerationism.

• 📺 YouTube & deepfakes.

• 💀 The business model of AI doomerism.

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❓In “’Good’ questions,”

Vaughn Tan

explains that “a question is more foundational when its answer affects more other questions.”