MargaretC
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MargaretC
laughter
I’ve been doing improv comedy for the last twelve years. Over that time I’ve realized there are at least two types of laughter you hear from the audience. One is a response to something clever or smart, like ‘ha ha I see what you did there, very nice.’ It’s a shallow sort of laugh and one that comes mainly from the mind.
The other - my... See more
I’ve been doing improv comedy for the last twelve years. Over that time I’ve realized there are at least two types of laughter you hear from the audience. One is a response to something clever or smart, like ‘ha ha I see what you did there, very nice.’ It’s a shallow sort of laugh and one that comes mainly from the mind.
The other - my... See more
UBI—or wider programmes for social support, cohesion, and economic access—should be seen as a tool for enabling the technological transition, not a response to it. It would reduce the fear of job displacement and encourage entrepreneurship and risk-taking. They could reduce social anxiety, creating the space to take advantage of this coming era of... See more
Azeem Azhar • 💸 Turning UBI on its head
o, alternative pathways to building Type-2 reasoning-capable AI systems, likely using neurosymbolic approaches, have become much more attractive. People like Gary Marcus have argued for neurosymbolic approaches for decades. Such approaches combine the pattern recognition of neural nets, like LLMs, with symbolic reasoning’s logic and rules. Vinod... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🧠 AI’s $100bn question: The scaling ceiling
As you move forward, there are a few things to keep in mind. First and foremost, it’s never too late to “become” yourself. Aristotle, for example, didn’t fully devote himself to writing and philosophy until he was nearly 50. There are also benefits to taking a long, winding path to self-fulfillment. Remember that age typically brings wisdom,... See more
Harvard Business Review • The Upside of Being a Late Bloomer
So How Many Stars Is Enough? A Data Driven Guide to Fundraising as an Open Source Founder
Jordan Segalljordansegall.substack.com
the accumulation of learning, an inevitable byproduct of the process of growing up, takes us not closer to but further away from our creative source
Maria Popova • Beethoven’s Advice on Being an Artist: His Touching Letter to a Little Girl Who Sent Him Fan Mail
A framework that unifies many forces shaping life. Laws of life. Where, when an how to intervene. Levers (political, market challenge, tech gap, culture mismatch or any combination)
The 4 laws of Life
Energy
Innovation
Cooperation
Evolution
Life stages (years ago)
Universe.. 14bn
Earth.. 4.5bn
First single cell.. 3.5 to 4b
Great Oxygenation. Earth cooled, ice age. Organism eat stored fat energy. 2.5bn
Ice age ends. 2bn
Sex. Cooperation. Multicellular.. 1.2bn
Cambrian Explosion (fossil records, diverse animal life). 540 mn
Dinosaurs. Lived for approx 180mn years. 240mn
Hominids & Chimp common ancestor. 4 to 7mn
Closest Ancestor (Neanderthal & Denisovan). 350k. Extinct 40k
Human in Africa. 150 to 250k
Humans colonised most of world. 60 to 70k
Hunter gather(Stone age) end. 12k
Agriculture technology start 10k.
Cities (Egypt, Iraq) 6k
Democracy Greece 2.5k
Industrial Revolution. 0.260k
Internet. 0.025
From A Theory of Everyone, Michael Muthukrishna
38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later.
More of our information will become written and curated by AI whose data provenance is unknown.
We heritage may be lost as pages die and never reach search indexes of language models
https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/