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Because that's what people are writing posts about -- presumably due to several recent developments in this area.
I haven't seen any non-AI posts getting dropped from the frontpage without getting a reasonable shot at visibility, so I don't see any need for moderator action at this time.
If you go to "customize feed" on your homepage (the button is on the right just above the "New and Upvoted" section), you can create a filter to reduce or eliminate the number of AI posts you see.
As Jason said, it's been a particularly eventful time in the AI world, so I'm not surprised there are a lot of posts about it right now. But there's also a lot of forum content generally, and we're certainly not lacking posts about GH&D.
The focus on "AI Safety" is getting out of control. There seems to be an illness that is compelling people to write ever longer and longer essays reiterating and neologising the exact plot of Space Odyssey/Terminator/The Matrix/iRobot over and over again.
Yet to find a post properly explaining why AI is inevitably going to kill everyone beyond handwaves at artisinal protein nanobots (unrealistic to anyone who has studied protein structure and function), or any post explaining how sinking a bunch of funding into yet another AI safety group will lead to a workable solution to this unproven problem.
Can we relegate these dear young sci-fi enthusiasts to a separate shame bin like the Community tab? I just want to get back to figuring out how to help the sick children dying of diarrhea and malaria
AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix.
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
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* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
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Back in November 2023 I posted here to launch Spiro and raise our first $198k. Two and a half years later this is an update and a fundraiser for the next step.
The short version: we've now reached over-5,900 people with TB preventive medicine, including over 3,000 children under five years old. Our early results have held up well an...
Adapted from my Substack, Funding Anthropalypse.
Short version: if you want a share of the coming Anthropic and OpenAI windfall - the $37bn+ that could be in play next year - the way in is to become 'legibly excellent', so the evaluators and donors that frontier lab staff already trust point them to yo...
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