Wtf?

In the end we made choices as a society to share the fruits of productivity more widely.

The statements each group tended to vote uniquely on, as well as statements that enjoyed consensus among all the groups, are shown to everyone. The assertions getting consensus across all groups, or within specific groups, float to the top and are seen more often—just like content on Facebook, but with visibility into what percentage of others agre

The current race in autonomous vehicles is a race not just to develop new algorithms, but to collect larger and larger amounts of data from human drivers about road conditions, and ever-more-detailed maps of the world created by millions of unwitting contributors.

“Services do not only represent a software structure but also the organizational structure. The services have a strong ownership model, which combined with the small team size is intended to make it very easy to innovate. In some sense you can see these services as small startups within the walls of a bigger company. Each of these services require

Oxford University researchers estimate that up to 47% of human tasks, including many components of white-collar jobs, may be done by machines within as little as twenty years.4

A traditional organization has high alignment but low autonomy, because managers tell people what to do and how to do it.

In the end, both web browsers and web servers turned out to be commodities, and value moved up the stack to services delivered over the true web platform.

As Blyth notes, every intervention is subject to Goodhart’s Law: “Targeting any variable long enough undermines the value of the variable.”

As recounted by Jeff Bezos in a 2005 talk at my Emerging Technology Conference, computer scientist Danny Hillis once said to him that “global consciousness is that thing that decided that decaffeinated coffeepots should be orange.” The idea that “orange means decaffeinated” originated during World War II, when Sanka promoted its decaffeinated coffe