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https://www.edge.org

This is a very under-the-radar organization funded by the whos-who of Silicon Valley. See the "Billionares Dinner" they host yearly in Napa.

They have great resources such as Philip Tetlock x Daniel Khanmen Superforcasting mini-course and thorough discussions by great thinkings around tech and ethics.



Meh.

I stumbled across The Edge via HN when the annual question issue was posted a few years back. Yes, there is the very occasional good response, but I'm increasingly underwhelmed by it -- the typical answer is self-serving (fund my research!), pie-in-the-sky, self-serving (fund my startup!), underinformed, self-serving (buy my product!), etc.

Yes, there are exceptions. No, Sturgeon's Law has no risk of being revoked.




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