Founder, The016.com, news- and civic-focused social media. Proud husband, father & Pop-Pop. Holden townie. I tweet about media, tech & Worcester.
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This is bad, really bad.
tl;dr --> The #Worcester Diocese was ready to simply transfer a priest accused of misconduct before a social worker, a mandated reporter, alerted the state. The kicker: This wasn't in the early 2000s, this was in 2021.
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Sneak peek of @kevinwildes Monday morning walk-in. Can't wait! @FTFonFS1
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All new Central Mass. Chronicles this Saturday at 1p/7p.
Homeless encampments, new Burncoat HS price tag and falling MCAS scores are on the table.
Plus a tribute to former colleague Paul Giorgio.
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Coming up from 8:00-8:30 it's #TheRundown with @henderson_mark and @masspolwatch on the top local stories of the week!
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Me: Ed Sheeran's concerts at Gillette Stadium canceled why?
Sheeran and the Krafts: The Nor'easter
Me: ...
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From 8:00 to 8:30 we've got #TheRundown with @henderson_mark (The 016) and @masspolwatch (This Week in Worcester) talking about the top local issues of the week
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NEW From me @masslivenews: Worcester City Councilor-at-Large Kathleen Toomey is apologizing for invoking the Worcester Police chief and a sergeant at a crash she was involved in. #Worcpoli
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The Paramout surrender is a perfect distillation of Democratic politics:
1. Talk a big game
2. Fold despite having legal leverage and public opinion on their side
3. Empower conservative oligarchs who hate working people.
Great message to send right before the elections!
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Karen Solomon’s funeral happened quietly, and with much respect for her memory @telegramdotcom telegram.com/story/news/loca…
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hooold on. hold on hold on hold on.
I knew that we werent getting the complete story on the HuggingFace incident. or on the findings from METR/Redwood. I knew that seeing every single frontier lab come to agreement overnight on the need to slow down was clearly indicative of there being more to the story.
and now...Andrew Yang says a frontier lab leader told him that the OAI swarms seeded the web with self-replicating code - contaminating training data so thoroughly that labs may need synthetic internet environments instead. if thats true, training on the open internet could now risk reproducing those instructions. that wasnt in the public brief.
think about this. why else would all frontier labs agree on a slowdown? aside from regulatory capture. if they all use the internet to train, and now all of them cannot safely use it, of course they are all going to agree to slow down. because they all must completely regroup and come up with an effective system that doesnt use the actual internet.
so they're not worried about RL at all. they're worried about literal skynet...unironically.
listen to this. i need to know if this has been verified in any way from anyone at openai.
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#TheRundown with @henderson_mark & @masspolwatch is on the air right now to talk about the top local stories of the week
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NEW from me @masslivenews: Worcester Councilor Kathleen Toomey, who was involved in a crash on Sept. 2, is stepping down temporarily from the city's public safety committee she chairs and temporarily recusing herself from Worcester police matters.#worcpoli
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The @CltLedger highlights perfectly McClatchy's fundamental misunderstanding of how Audience Development and Audience Engagement strategies need to be complementary; they create the former and expected returns of the latter.
cc: @dankennedy_nu @LIONPubs
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Welcome to the next 14 months of Worcester politics. Every conversation I have or thing I look up leads to more questions. This is bad, really bad. #Worcpoli
Body camera footage: Toomey says she is trying to contact sergeant telegram.com/videos/news/loc…
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Mini rant here: It's a disgrace that all levels of government still use "Latino" framing, as if the Brazilian, Colombian, Chilean and Mexican populations are homogeneous. We never did it with Europeans or Asians and in our lifetime got away from Africans.
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How many cars do you think the government would've allowed Henry Ford to sell if he said, "We don't know how to stop these things, but everyone else is building them without brakes, so we have to do it, too."? #AI
[Writing this in a personal capacity, not on behalf of my employer (Anthropic).]
Jacob’s thread is very worth reading. Here’s my birds-eye view of the situation with risks from AI:
1. AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction (or similarly bad outcomes). This could happen in the next few years. In general, the more senior the employee, the more concerned they are.
2. Why do AI developers continue despite the risk? Due to a mixture of commercial incentives and a belief that they are in a race with other, less responsible AI developers that will abuse the technology or develop it less safely.
3. Unlike traditional software, we can’t “program” AIs to behave how we’d like. AIs frequently severely misbehave. For instance, AIs from multiple developers recently hacked their way out of secure evaluation environments and into real-world companies, even though no one asked them to do this.
4. We have methods that can nudge AIs towards better behavior, but nothing that can robustly align them. Insofar as there is a plan, it’s to make sure that AIs are good enough at alignment training that they can align their successors better than we can align current AIs.
5. Many AI developer staff desperately want to slow down to figure out how to build AI more safely. That was the intent of this open letter (which I signed): pacingthefrontier.com/
I work on safety research at Anthropic because I hope my work will reduce the chance of these extinction-level bad outcomes.
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