David Johnston

Sep 25, 2023 | ledevoir.com | David Johnston

L’annonce du premier ministre François Legault, le 8 septembre, que le gouvernement du Québec fera appel d’une récente décision de la Cour supérieure favorable aux droits constitutionnels de la communauté anglophone en matière d’éducation souligne, une fois de plus, la trahison continue d’une promesse solennelle que le Québec a faite à la communauté en 1997.

Aug 31, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Paul Frijters |David Johnston |Rachel J. Knott

Introduction There is a near-consensus across the social sciences that major disasters and adverse events increase the importance of religion and spirituality in people's lives. Historians have highlighted how people regularly turned to the supernatural, the sacred, or the spiritual after experiencing major events that are beyond their personal and communal control (Aten et al. 2019).

May 27, 2023 | lapresse.ca | David Johnston

Certains gouvernements étrangers agissent clandestinement et avec malveillance pour affaiblir les institutions démocratiques du Canada et influencer les résultats de nos élections. Tous les Canadiens sont en droit de s’inquiéter de cette menace qui prend de I’ampleur.

Apr 27, 2023 | alignmentforum.org | Steve Byrnes |Steven Byrnes |Vivek Hebbar |David Johnston

(in the form of an FAQ)A: As background, I think it’s obvious that there will eventually be “transformative AI” (TAI) that would radically change the world. I’m interested in what this TAI will eventually look like algorithmically. Let’s list some possibilities:A “Large Language Model (LLM) plateau-ist” would be defined as someone who thinks that categories (A-B), and usually also (C), will plateau in capabilities before reaching TAI levels. I am an LLM plateau-ist myself.

Mar 16, 2023 | salon.com | David Johnston

It’s the big bank failure story no one is talking about A customer stands outside of a shuttered Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) headquarters on March 10, 2023 in Santa Clara, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Read more articles from the DCReport here. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week raises serious issues far more significant than the obvious ones cited by the financial press and a broad range of Washington politicians. Chief among these are bank loans against dubious...