“It turned out that was more difficult than I expected”

Beware of biased media in any nation, because it doesn’t open your eyes, it just makes you blind!

Exclusive: Effective Altruist Leaders Were Repeatedly Warned About Sam Bankman-Fried Years Before FTX Collapsed Time

Orwell and Camus. Though they never met, they were preoccupied by the same question: How to think truthfully in a world of untruths? Pravda  »

Tough luck, Brits: Binance suspends UK deposits and withdrawals The Register 

Credit Suisse to borrow up to $54bn from Swiss central bank BBC 

U.S. Treasury reviewing U.S. financial sector exposure to Credit Suisse – Bloomberg Reuters 

What’s Going on with First Republic Bank?Adam Levitin. Very good compact description of differences among SVB, Signature, and now Republic.

1. Did Gödel mislead Von Neumann into thinking he already had a proof for his second theorem in order to steal Von Neumann’s ideas? — intrigue and incompleteness
2. “Academic treatments of speech, and public discourse about, speech in the classroom tend to focus on the obligations… of instructors. But one of the central questions we want students to think about is what obligations they themselves have if they are in this situation” — a teaching guide on how students can foster a good classroom speech environment
3. “When you say I am contradicting myself, you fail to recognize I am in a Platonic dialogue with myself, and both sides of myself are winning” — also: “When you react to me with criticism, or by deciding not to associate with me, you are driving a stake through the heart of free speech culture”
4. “To assess [an AI’s] sentience, we will need markers that are not susceptible to gaming [i.e., non-sentient systems using human-generated training data to mimic humans]” — So we need to “uncover as many independently evolved instances of sentience as we possibly can,” and that means looking at nonhuman animals, argue Kristin Andrews (York) and Jonathan Birch (LSE)
5. “Rethink Priorities” is a think tank that aims to “support organizations, researchers, and changemakers in efforts to generate the most significant possible charitable impact for others” — and their “Worldview Investigations Team,” headed up by philosopher Bob Fischer, is hiring
6. “It will be a filter. Not all faculty will thrive in this environment” — John Symons (Kansas) is interviewed large language models and AI, and the changes (not necessarily negative) they will bring to education, to personal lives, and to society
7. “It turned out that was more difficult than I expected” — after a four-decade hiatus, Nick Axten, now 76, has earned his PhD in philosophy