Inequality
What are we doing about the growing levels of inequality?
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| Mar 14, 2026 | » | Absolute Superman
8 min; updated Mar 22, 2026
TechnocracyKAL-EL. In the cities worked the klerics of the science league.
Harnessing the energies of the red sun and the planet itself to fuel their
insatiable hunger… for progress… at all costs. TEACHER. You… wrote this? Yourself? That’s… Kal, the luminarium contains
all knowledge of the science league from throughout Kryptonian history and
can answer any question we might ever possibly ask. |
| Mar 3, 2021 | » | LLMs: Stochastic Parrots π¦ and How (Not) to Use Them
10 min; updated Dec 14, 2023
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| Jul 4, 2020 | » | On Socio-Economic Classes
13 min; updated Nov 24, 2023
#meritocracy #inequality #socioeconomics Our Lot in LifeNot recognizing your blessings feeds into the dark side of capitalism and meritocracy: success is a choice, and that those who havenβt achieved success are not unlucky, but unworthy. I’m relatively lucky. I don’t know how much of the techie hubris that I bear. I have unresolved feelings about meritocracy and fairness. Race is usually used as a proxy for bridging the gap, e.g. affirmative action at colleges. But who is affirmative action better suited for - a rich black kid or a poor white kid? I’m in the camp that believes wealth is a bigger divider than race. ... |
| Mar 14, 2020 | » | An Overview of the World's Current State
5 min; updated Nov 24, 2023
Educational AttainmentQ1. In all low-income countries across the world today, how many girls finish primary school? There has been lots of efforts to get girls to finish primary school, e.g. providing sanitary towels. Surely, they must be at \( \ge 40% \) completion rates. π²β β A: 20 percent ββ β B: 40 percent β β β C: 60 percent ... |
| Nov 30, 2021 | » | LaGuardia
2 min; updated Jul 29, 2023
LaGuardia.
Nnedi Okorafor; Tana Ford; James Devlin.
2019. Aliens exist (first landed in Nigeria); human-alien in the world. Main character: Future, a Nigerian-American doctor. Future sneaks in LetMeLive, an alien, into America to escape a genocide (largely imperceptible to humans) on LetMeLive’s kind. ... |
| Apr 26, 2020 | » | Philanthropy
4 min; updated Feb 19, 2023
Criticism/Defense Of Billionaire PhilanthropyTaxes will probably not go to the same causes, e.g. reforming the bail system, grassroot efforts for migrants, etc. Admittedly, these are things that the government should be doing, but it seems that the government doesn’t do enough. Furthermore, some of these issues so politicized, e.g. immigrants, that government support can be fickle. Foundations are more effective than governments as they do their due diligence, e.g. Bill Gates. Reforming the government is a long battle. ... |
was written in a period when NLP practitioners are producing bigger (# of parameters; size of training data) language models (LMs), and pushing the top scores on benchmarks. The paper itself was controversial because it led to Gebru being fired from Google, following disagreements with her managers on conditions (withdraw, or remove Google-affiliated authors) for publishing the paper.
A lot changed since mid-2021, when I initially wrote this page. OpenAI’s ChatGPT took the world by storm – reaching 123m MAU less than 3 months after launch and becoming the fastest-growing consumer application in history (TikTok took 9 months to hit 100m MAU).
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