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Value Alignment or Misalignment - What Will Keep Systems Accountable?

Machine learning’s advances have led to new ideas about the feasibility and importance of machine ethics keeping pace, with increasing emphasis on safety, containment, and alignment. This paper addresses a recent suggestion that inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) could be a means to so-called “value alignment.” We critically consider how such an approach can engage the social, norm-infused na...

Will biotechnology keep the heart healthy?

Coronary heart disease kills more Americans each year than any other disease. So why have biotechs lagged in developing treatments? No quick answers, but change is coming.

Dermatology for the practicing allergist: Tinea pedis and its complications

Tinea pedis is a chronic fungal infection of the feet, very often observed in patients who are immuno-suppressed or have diabetes mellitus. The practicing allergist may be called upon to treat this disease for various reasons. Sometimes tinea infection may be mistaken for atopic dermatitis or allergic eczema. In other patients, tinea pedis may complicate allergy and asthma and may contribute to...

What is evidence-based dermatology?

Although the term 'evidence-based' has been recently introduced, the evidence based idea is very old indeed; in ancient world, Aristoteles placed a rule for all investigators of the time that they should support each of their statements with all available evidence. In 1991, Sackett defined the term evidence based medicine (EBM) as a conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evid...

Preventing suicide: what will work and what will not.