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S: random internet denizens were somehow producing more insightful commentary on pretty much every matter than highly credentialed experts and capital-heavy institutions. My question to you is: how is this possible?
E: One of the main things, is that these curated, establishment discourses promoted by the algorithms and sustained by mainstream... See more
Eugyppius • Visions of A New World: My Interview With Eugyppius
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had to read this several times to grok it but applied to a real-life example.
It’s hard to design the perfect onboarding. but it’s easy to check: “Did the user reach ‘Aha!’ in 3 steps instead of 7?” or “Did 80% of users complete the flow?”
So the industry (and people) naturally get pulled into automated loops. this is why mid-training is powerful and dangerous. it can manufacture the appearance of discernment while dodging deeper unmeasurable criteria.
“They have learned to produce the appearance of discernment without ever developing the faculty itself.”
Another way to frame WeeCare’s growth: Before WeeCare’s 2018 launch, Bright Horizons had a total of 695 US centers (page 21). By October of 2020, WeeCare had 2,700 US schools compared to a net of 13 additional centers brought online by Bright Horizons.
Turner Novak • WeeCare, Carebnb’s, and the US Child Care Epidemic
- Rule #2: Ask yourself, “Is this still going to be a good piece to read in 6, 12, 24 months time?”
Chris Best • Writers Writing, Readers Reading, Creators Creating
But I write for reason two: the sneaking suspicion that even if you win and are top of the heap at the Meta-Creator game, you are still limiting yourself from what you could be doing with your life. What the people you actually look up to are doing with theirs. What the world could be benefiting from if the greatest minds of our generation just... See more
Shaun Wang • The Meta-Creator Ceiling
Duke Rem: You often suggest (without stating it directly) that human intelligence is inherently social and contextual. How (and why) does this perspective challenge current AI methodologies?
Erik Larson: Human cognition is deeply embedded in social interactions, cultural norms, and the specific contexts in which we operate. We learn, reason, and... See more
Erik Larson: Human cognition is deeply embedded in social interactions, cultural norms, and the specific contexts in which we operate. We learn, reason, and... See more
Erik Larson on AI’s Myths and Limits: Why Machines Can’t Think Like Humans
Twitter is the new town square, Here are Elon’s views on free speech at Twitter:-Free speech on Twitter should only abide by the law-We should be reluctant to delete tweets, “If in doubt, let the speech exist”-Timeouts are better than permanent bans-The Twitter algorithm should be open source and available online for people to freely inspect and... See more
Chris Anderson • Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about | TED | Tesla Texas Gigafactory interview
Market-making is certainly a characteristic of Aggregators; Google, for example, is a one-stop shop for users, advertisers, and content suppliers. What makes Aggregators unique, though, is their infinite scalability, driven by the effectively zero marginal and transactional costs necessary to serve one more user, advertiser, or supplier.