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

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

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Hi, it’s Charley, and this is Untangled, a weekly-ish newsletter on technology, people, and power. A few things before we get into it:

  • 🧠 Three weeks ago, I published the essay, “AI alignment isn’t a problem — it’s a myth” and offered a tour of unordered and ordered systems.

  • 🗞️ Then I Untangled the News three times: one, two, and today makes three.

  • 👋 I’d like to welcome new subscribers from the Citizen Digital Foundation, Stanford University, and USAID.

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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.


❓In “’Good’ questions,”

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

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