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I want to take a moment to talk about one of the greatest user interface disasters in history: the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the U.S. Navy missile cruiser USS Vincennes (CG-49) over the Persian Gulf on July 3, 1988. All 290 people on board the airliner were killed.
Abstract There is immense hyperbole about recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially Large Language Models like ChatGPT. And there is also deserved concern about such technologies’ material impact on jobs. But observers are missing two very important things:
BashFAQ/105 - Greg's Wiki
set -e was an attempt to add "automatic error detection" to the shell. Its goal was to cause the shell to abort any time an error occurred, so you don't have to put || exit 1 after each important command.
Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgment of global risks
Forthcoming in Global Catastrophic Risks, eds. Nick Bostrom and Milan Cirkovic
Draft of August 31, 2006.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
(yudkowsky@singinst.org)
Singularity Institute for Artificial I