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Every adult senses that their attention is slipping, that their thinking is flattening, that their world is flooded with noise, no neutrality, and that no institution really exists to protect them. Your brain is for sale, my guy - as your attention goes, so does your cognition, so does your sense of depth and certainty.
Confidence, optimism, and... See more
Confidence, optimism, and... See more
Everyone is Gambling and No One is Happy
How human psychology, choice architecture, and perceived value challenge tech-driven efficiency and automation-focused decision design
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So, you know, one of my interesting questions is, you know, what interface will AI deploy to help us make choices? And will it make the mistake that you could very easily make? If you think about it, nobody clicks the I'm feeling lucky button on Google. I think it's still there, isn't it?
It's been there for years. And they've removed it and
... See moreMaybe if you spin it in the right kind of way with the right kind of confidence and a baseline level of taste anything can be cool?
The Death of Cool
Differences between AI and human learning, focusing on batch training, lack of continual learning, and catastrophic forgetting in AI.
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So mechanically, there seems to clearly be something different, or at least there's a big community of people in the computational neuroscience community that agree that there's got to be something different going on between these systems.
More abstractly, though, what's fundamentally different, which I think is maybe more practically
... See moreI think there are things in life that you want to telescope and compress and accelerate and streamline and make more efficient. And there are things where the value is precisely in the inefficiency, in the time spent, in the pain endured, in the effort you have to invest. And I don’t think we’re going to differentiate between those things. Because... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
Two conversations this weekend make me think that there's a vibe shift afoot in Silicon Valley around what one should work on and what is worthwhile.
Culturally, it feels like the moment is ripe for new frameworks:
• Davos expert morality is stale and discredited.
• It's also... See more
Patrick Collisonx.comI recently declared feed bankruptcy.
At various points in my week // day, I type "kottke.org" into my browser, hit enter, and read whatever is there. Then I type "chorus.fm" and do the same thing. Then Daring Fireball. Then Hacker News.
I read good things, on good websites.
And it feels like an exercise in nostalgia.
Between 2010 and now, we... See more
At various points in my week // day, I type "kottke.org" into my browser, hit enter, and read whatever is there. Then I type "chorus.fm" and do the same thing. Then Daring Fireball. Then Hacker News.
I read good things, on good websites.
And it feels like an exercise in nostalgia.
Between 2010 and now, we... See more