Friday assorted links
1. Should AI surrogates of you make your life and death decisions?
2. “According to Federal Railroad Administration data, the Brightline has been involved in at least 185 fatalities, 148 of which were believed not to be suicides, since it began operating, in December 2017. Last year, the train hit and killed 41 people—none of whom, as best as authorities could determine, was attempting to harm themselves.” Link here.
3. The Recoding America Fund, from Jennifer Pahlka.
4. Dean Ball on the call for a superintelligence ban, Dean is right once again. Mainly (once again) a lot of irresponsibilitiy on the other side of that ledger, you will not see them seriously address the points that Dean raises. If you want to go this route, do the hard work and write an 80-page paper on how the political economy of such a ban would work.