The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 17, 2025

With this picture in mind, one can see that whether an endeavor is infinite depends on one's measure and e.g. if all you're interested in in mathematics is finding a proof of some particular single theorem, then maybe "math" seems finite to you. or for making progress?) An infinite endeavor can only be infinitesimally completed/solved.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

What do you think the ratio is of you talking versus the donor talking? So nine, “How will you measure results?” And I’ll check in with my sister, or my sister-in-law each year and say, “Is it the same group this year, or who do you want us to give to in your honor?” Most people think of numbers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2005

Your communication goals need to be specific, measurable and based on the capacity of your infrastructure. City governments are increasingly passing laws to strengthen the local, green economy. There is a 4:1 ratio. Establish you goals. Target your audience(s). It is a volume business.

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Tableau

MAY 3, 2021

Their ongoing efforts focus on breaking down the direct line from school to prison that forms when students are referred to law enforcement from an early age, and investing funds in resources that improve students’ experience. White students are most likely to attend school in districts with no referrals to law enforcement or arrests.

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Tableau

MAY 3, 2021

Their ongoing efforts focus on breaking down the direct line from school to prison that forms when students are referred to law enforcement from an early age, and investing funds in resources that improve students’ experience. White students are most likely to attend school in districts with no referrals to law enforcement or arrests.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 1, 2022

1990: The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act is passed, giving indigenous peoples some measure of control over their ancestral remains and sacred objects. Besides looking at state and local government holiday laws, there is another way of looking at the adoption of either Columbus or Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

Cook also had to answer for why Apple wiped out a whole category of apps that parents used to monitor their children’s screen time while introducing a screen time measuring feature of its own. Marc Santora at The New York Times explains: The new law, which is expected to go into effect Oct. Some need to be broken up. Remember books?

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

There’s a disconnect there — the fact that they could on any level believe that the law, let alone our policies, don’t protect them is a fail. Starting Wednesday, California will begin enforcing its digital privacy law. Publishers had expected to use new data privacy measures to bar Google from storing insights about readers.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Instead, by several measures, the situation for ByteDance’s popular video app got significantly worse. Jackson said the app uses some technical measures to encode its activity, meaning some of it is hidden from independent researchers looking under the covers. “In Stylistically, they’re laws. Jim Tankersley / New York Times ).

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

According to Romm, American Edge is set up to ”navigate a thicket of tax laws in such a way that it can raise money, and blitz the airwaves with ads, without the obligation of disclosing all of its donors.”. Amazon recently invited reporters into a fulfillment center in Washington to see its improved safety measures.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

But there’s also much more to Facebook’s announcement, which included a broad set of measures intended to limit the ability of, uh, someone to spread lies about election safety, voting procedures, and the legitimacy of the outcome. As a result, it might be harder for candidates to spread misinformation in the final days of the campaign.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

For future startups that want to take a more measured approach, TikTok’s frantic tattoo takedowns will make for a useful case study. Others, such as President Trump’s Muslim ban, took a few tries — but eventually became law. This piece goes deep on the intricacies of the law, and the arguments against it. Can’t wait!

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

We continue to adhere to extensive health and safety measures to protect our associates as they pick, pack and ship products to customers, and are improving delivery speeds across our store.”. states to provide information about health and safety measures following the death of a number of workers from coronavirus-related illnesses.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

And while sometimes these outside consulting projects approach the client with kid gloves, lead auditor Laura Murphy and her team at the law firm Relman Colfax delivered an 89-page assessment of Facebook’s policies around voter suppression, hate speech, algorithmic bias, and content moderation that is measured but often unsparing.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

And three, the demand from scammers coupled with Twitter’s initial measures to fight back set up a cat-and-mouse game that incentivized bad actors to take more drastic measures to wreak havoc. The suit alleges that Google violated wiretapping and privacy laws. That brings us to today. Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET). Mary Hui / Quartz ).

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Congress may begin writing letters , and new laws will be proposed, so that such a bad post never again appears on the internet. Law enforcement eventually will? Two new laws in Puerto Rico make it a crime to report information about emergencies that the government considers “fake news.” Trump added. Cristiano Lima / Politico ).

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

The Ratio. ?? Vlad Savov and Melissa Cheok report: The @TeamTrump account had tweeted a video collage of images and clips depicting peaceful protests, moments of mourning and law enforcement officers hugging civilians in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, an African-American man, while in police custody. Matt Day / Bloomberg).

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

And the reason is that the way CrowdTangle measures the popularity of partisan links is not the way that Facebook, which owns the tool, thinks that we ought to be measuring popularity. This is what CrowdTangle measures, and Roose is representing in his tweets. On Monday, the company decided that it had had enough.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

Law enforcement officials say the group’s adherents used Facebook to plan the murder of a federal agent. People in Hong Kong are self-censoring in anticipation of Beijing’s new national security laws, which outlaw activities related to “separatism, subversion, terrorism and foreign interference” in Hong Kong. Zoe Schiffer.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

antitrust law,” Yale University economics professor Fiona Scott Morton, the chief economist in the Justice Department’s antitrust division from 2011-2012, wrote in a new academic paper entitled “Roadmap for a Digital Advertising Monopolization Case Against Google.”. Here’s how Congress is shaping data privacy laws during the pandemic.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

While it’s difficult to measure the number of people who participated in a virtual walkout, an internal group devoted to the effort had about 400 people, sources said. And then, over the weekend, the long-standing norm that Facebook employees never criticize their employer in public seemed to shatter, tweet by tweet. The walkout.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

Facebook employees should take some measure of pride in that, he said: “I would urge people not to look at the moral impact of what we do just through the lens of harm and mitigation. Zuckerberg encouraged employees to see defending free speech as a noble cause. That’s clearly a huge part of what we have to do — I’m not downplaying that.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

You’ll carve away Section 230, the law that says platforms aren’t liable for what users publish, you’ll do algorithmic transparency, you’ll make them audit every content moderation decision they make. But where do you measure that? You don’t have to measure it. As a matter of fact, you might ignore them more and it gets worse.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Twitter will prompt high-profile political accounts to take heightened security measures ahead of the 2020 US election. As the conspiracy theories grows, hate campaigns against local laws and politicians could become more commonplace. Ultimately, I don’t think Systrom would take the job at TikTok. But I sure am glad he took the call.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

Trending down : Microsoft is knee-deep in services for law enforcement, fostering an ecosystem of companies that provide police with software using Microsoft’s cloud and other platforms. The company has evaded much of the scrutiny that companies like Amazon have gotten for working with law enforcement agencies. Law and order!

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