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Kyle Tibbitts • #19 — John Andrew Entwistle — Traveling into the future
The reason experts are so split on whether or not we're on an exponential path to AI is that intelligence is multi-dimensional. You can be both exponentially exploding/scaling in one dimension and stagnating in another. You can be both superhuman and subhuman at the same time. People tend to focus on the dimensions most salient to their... See more
Kenneth Stanleyx.comIntelligence and Artificial Intelligence
good take
Talking about large language models
arxiv.orgF2P companies are doing the rough equivalent of Bud Light setting up a bar at an AA meeting. While alcohol has done a lot more harm than video games (and I in no way want to trivialize the trials surrounding alcoholism) the comparison is apt. F2P business models rely on getting people well and truly hooked.
Evan Armstrong • How Free to Play Video Games are Forced to Make Addicts
The irony is that people can get some of their most important work done outside of work, when they’re free to think and ponder. The struggle is that we take time off maybe once a year, without realizing that time to think is a key element of many jobs, and one that a traditional work schedule doesn’t accommodate very well.
Morgan Housel • The Advantage Of Being A Little Underemployed
Paraphrasing an insight on AI, brands, and personality:
“Anything Rick Owens does, you know immediately it’s Rick Owens. If he writes a text or designs a garment, or if he does a piece of furniture — it’s so coherent.. Chris Sherron, who’s the designer behind Are.na, said, “there's no art without the artist.” With all of this AI stuff popping up,
... See moreOf all the information the average internet user shares with the technology companies that dominate their lives, health data—and especially mental health data–is some of the most valuable, and controversial: Though social media conditions a person to share every aspect of their being, at every moment, a company automatically telling Snapchat and... See more
Molly Osberg • The Spooky, Loosely Regulated World of Online Therapy
I don’t buy the argument that being brandless was a mistake. Brandless is the brand and it was very clever of them. If there is something they got right, it was the branding. What undid them is the cost of goods sold. It’s beyond me as to why they didn’t go premium with pricing and focused on lesser categories. But they had a thesis to follow and... See more
Ashwin Ramasamy • Why Brandless Failed When Aldi Succeeded
From a value chain perspective, though, music and podcasts could not be more different: