Another member of Canada’s Senate has backed our campaign! Senator Geeta Tucker joins the call for an international ban on the development of runaway machine intelligence. Over 35 Canadian MPs and Senators are now on board, recognizing the risk of human extinction it poses.

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Spending my Halloween optimizing my dopamine loops

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The $420M profit is equal to about 115 *five year* NIH grant funded research projects. 210 projects if we limit that to modular R01s. This is just the *profit*, not the value of the goods sold to the government.

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Worth noting that IEEE were, let’s say, less than fulsomely transparent with journalists about what these studies were. Had to run a few Python scripts to identify these studies, why they’d been pulled, and the full total reported here (3,000 retractions so far this year).

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Record-breaking retraction: IEEE pulls >1,400 papers in one day — all linked to papermills (titles found for sale by @abalkina.bsky.social ). IEEE has retracted around 3,000 papers this year so far, our analysis suggests. @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social | @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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