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Karthik Sekar Ⓥ

Karthik Sekar Ⓥ

@KSlearns

Author of After Meat, which argues that the inefficiency of animals in food production means inevitable replacement.

Oakland, CA เข้าร่วม Şubat 2018
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Karthik Sekar Ⓥ@KSlearns·
I wrote a new piece, "Getting Cats Vegan is Possible and Imperative". Cats in the United States eat nearly as much meat as the human population of Canada. Transitioning cats away from animal products would do much good. forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/AFPXXepk…
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Rutger Bregman
Rutger Bregman@rcbregman·
Sam Altman is such an incredible backstabber, liar and traitor. While your competitor is taking a heroic and principled stand, you swoop in to make your deal. Imagine working for this guy - is there a greater shame? This should lead to a mass exodus from OpenAI.
Sam Altman@sama

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

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Marina Bolotnikova
Marina Bolotnikova@mbolotnikova·
Doing all I can to support America's struggling soybean farmers in these turbulent times
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Karthik Sekar Ⓥ@KSlearns·
As of today, the journal Science has unjustly retracted their 2011 paper, “A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus.” There was no research misconduct. This is a shame on the journal Science. My full thoughts in this Reddit post: reddit.com/r/academia/com…
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Snowy2014
Snowy2014@Snowy20142·
@mattyglesias You can make a meal with two eggs. Even at $12-15 a dozen, that’s still relatively cheap.
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Jamie Metzl@JamieMetzl·
Here is my just-released blog post. If we Democrats do not learn from this self-inflicted wound and don't immediately begin charting a different path, we will be destined to repeat the same mistakes and achieve the same results for the foreseeable future. jamiemetzl.com/we-democrats-n…
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Karthik Sekar Ⓥ@KSlearns·
@tobyhardtospell Other states have done this better—it definitely seems deliberate. I automatically got my ballot in the mail in CA.
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Marina Bolotnikova
Marina Bolotnikova@mbolotnikova·
1/ 📢It's a crowded news day, but may we interrupt with a very on-mission announcement? This wk Vox is publishing HOW FACTORY FARMING ENDS, a big package of stories on the fight against factory farming—and, if I may say so, it looks INCREDIBLY sexy vox.com/future-perfect…
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Rutger Bregman
Rutger Bregman@rcbregman·
We have to talk about age: Donald Trump is too old to serve as President. He rambles. He keeps forgetting names. His vocabulary is in decline. He has trouble finishing sentences. Many experts think he's demented. Clearly unfit to serve as commander-in-chief.
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Karthik Sekar Ⓥ@KSlearns·
Reminds of the Canadian researchers who figured out that by depriving chickens of more sleep (7 h to 4h), they can induce weight gain: x.com/Lewis_Bollard/…… The researchers have photos/bios of themselves in the report. So gross that they're actually proud of this.
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Javin Oza
Javin Oza@ozalabCP·
@KSlearns Are you two working on a cookbook?! Or maybe a vegan meal kit? Looks delicious!
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My wife and I made an Indian-inspired salad bowl yesterday: Green beans, mango, tomato, curried cauliflower, potatoes, air-fried chickpeas, and a cilantro dressing.
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Karthik Sekar Ⓥ@KSlearns·
My wife and I have been doing pizza night every Sunday for the last year. I'm proud of this creation, Cheeseburger Pizza. - Homemade pizza dough - Trader Joe's Beef-less crumbles and Mexican cheese alternative - Pickles, tomatoes, caramelized onions - Vegan Big Mac Sauce
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