Arvind Melwani @arvindm

California Joined October 2008

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Davide Maria De Luca @DM_Deluca

2 years ago

Italy, mixing up India and America since 1492

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3 years ago

Our Inadequate Education System | Devan Melwani | TEDxMountainViewHigh... youtu.be/UQ8WcgsEMSs?si… via @YouTube

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Once AI systems become more intelligent than humans, humans we will *still* be the "apex species." Equating intelligence with dominance is the main fallacy of the whole debate about AI existential risk. It's just wrong. Even *within* the human species It's wrong: it's *not* the smartest among us who dominate the others. More importantly, it's not the smartest among us who *want* to dominate others and who set the agenda. We are subservient to our drives, built into us by evolution. Because evolution made us a social species with a hierarchical social structure, some of us have a drive to dominate, and others not so much. But that drive has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence: chimpanzees, baboons, and wolves have similar drives. Orangutans do not because they are not a social species. And they are pretty darn smart. AI systems will become more intelligent than humans, but they will still be subservient to us. They same way the members of the staff of politicians or business leaders are often smarter than their leader. But their leader still calls the shot, and most staff members have no desire to take their place. We will design AI to be like the supersmart-but-non-dominating staff member. The "apex species" is not the smartest but the one that sets the overall agenda. That will be us.

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Arvind Melwani @arvindm

3 years ago

@kylascan Except nobody gives anybody the credit ;)

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3 years ago

@loridroste Thank you council Member Taplin - we appreciate you taking steps to make Berkeley safer!

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3 years ago

@SahajKohli I grew up in Taiwan till I came to the US to study. I identify as Sindhi first, our unique interpretation of Hinduism (more Sikh than Hindu), language, food and culture is unfortunately in decline as it cannot survive in the diaspora...

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3 years ago

@SahajKohli My parents were born in Hyderabad, Sindh. During partition my father’s side moved to Shillong, Meghalya and my mom’s side to Colombo, Sri Lanka. Due to ethnic violence in the late 70s/early 80s we moved from Shillong to Taiwan with the support of family.

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Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar

3 years ago

Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your behavior. Your behavior becomes your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny. —Mahatma Gandhi

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3 years ago

@Jacquiecharles @opcofamerica @jayhweaver @mawilner @DelgadoAntonioM Compliment!

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3 years ago

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4 years ago

New acronyms recently minted: FTX = F**k This X*hit SBF = Some Body F**ked 😂🤣

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George Takei @GeorgeTakei

4 years ago

Has anyone explained to Herschel Walker that “run-off” doesn’t mean what he did to his kids?

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Maarten Boute @mboute

4 years ago

6 weeks into the crisis: fuel terminals still blocked, schools closed, black market gas price rising, insecurity situation degrading (increase in kidnappings), oxygen bottlers out of stock, hospitals still struggling to keep open, over 1700 suspected Cholera cases reported #Haiti

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No Context Brits @NoContextBrits

4 years ago

He gets my vote.

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Arvind Melwani @arvindm

4 years ago

@PNCBank_Help Trying to get my tax documents and cannot get them through your website. I cant even send secure message through even though I am logged in. What is the easiest way to get tax docs ?