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today on macroscience - the strong researcher hypothesis, or, does metascience mostly spend its time devising interventions that will fail to influence the best researchers?
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this kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most american cities
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bring back the insane copywriting style of the j. peterman catalog
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i would sign up for a service called AmateurClass where you pay a random person to try to explain something they've done once or twice
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🧠 ai thought-leader slide deck starter pack:
✅ robot and human hands shaking
✅ exploding brain made of ones and zeroes
✅ photo of frusturated looking lee sedol
✅ slide that just says “BLOCKCHAIN?”
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my ideal email response, courtesy nikola tesla, 1908:
"i agree with you that the subject is most interesting. but to express myself in regard to it would necessitate a concentration of thought which, in the midst of my present labors, is impossible for me"
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it’s hard to really internalize *how* young until you see feynman’s badge photo
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🚨 MAJOR
@COGSECCONF
NEWS 🚨
pleased to announce that we've confirmed a fireside chat with
@danrather
(!) and
@contrapoints
(!) talking about the truth, disinformation, and the future of the media
moderated by the inimitable
@trufelman
!
register today:
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EITHER advertising works, platforms bear political responsibility
OR advertising doesn’t work, business model is a fraud
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning, he found himself with an opportunity to drive a lot of engagement.
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🍾💸 it's actually only a "startup" if it comes from the venture region of california.
otherwise, it's just sparkling capitalism.
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fifty years ago: susan sontag and jane jacobs in jail following an antiwar protest (december 1967)
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project - a strunk & white for proper emoji style:
up to three sequential emoji are permitted, but no more 😎🙏🥇
👉 hand gestures should never split a line of text
✨ certain emoji must be used only as paired brackets for text ✨
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still the greatest artificial intelligence product of all time
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Amazing transcript: Aug 6-7, 1945 - imprisoned Nazi physicists learn about the atomic bomb for the first time:
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🪞 inversions 🪞
venture capital: occasionally so unconcerned about profit-and-loss that it operates as a kind of bizarro philanthropy
philanthropy: occasionally so obsessed with metrics and returns that it operates as a kind of bizarro for-profit
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💡 idea:
a co-working space for freelancers that comes staffed with character actors that play various roles (middle manager, gossip, intern, jaded veteran)
“it’s like ren faire for capitalism!”
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got this at a yard sale this morning and basically the weekend is already a massive success
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was made aware of this *incredible* law review article today
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all the hottest startups use
✨ e i g e n v e c t o r d e c o m p o s i t i o n ✨
Stitch Fix is using something called eigenvector decomposition, a concept from quantum mechanics, to tease apart the overlapping “notes” in an individual’s style. Using physics, the team can better understand the complexities of the clients’ style minds.
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New job! Excited to be joining the Ethics and Governance of AI Fund as its Director. Announced earlier this year:
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i’m excited to be launching this today:
“trade journal cooperative”, a subscription service which delivers a niche trade journal to your door once a quarter
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recently concluded that my absolute favorite packaging design paradigm is “portrait of the founder looking grumpy”
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shoutout to the guy on my flight who watched the first five minutes of oppenheimer, scrolled to watch the whole trinity detonation scene, and then turned the whole film off and went to sleep
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one thing frequently missed in discussions about artificial intelligence is the complex role that hardware plays in shaping its broader social impact
excited to announce i’m out with a new paper today tracing these relationships!
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beautifully put:
“the purpose of a proof is not to persuade you that a proposition is true, but to concentrate your doubt on your assumptions”
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it's actually only a "coup" if it comes from the rébellion region of france, otherwise it's just sparkling treason
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unreasonably happy that i got oxford to sign off on this event title
Our next OII Wednesday webinar on Dec 2 at 1600GMT:
‘Destroy the Internet Advertising Economy With This One Weird Trick’ with
@timhwang
&
@computermacgyve
, co-organised with
@meedan
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⬜️⬜️⬜️ in an effort to better understand how symbolic scarcity contributes to divinatory experience, my current tarot deck is just seventy-seven blank cards and one tower
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the gentle art of responding to an e-mail four months after it is received
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💁♂️ some fresh alternatives to “yes, and...”
“yes, or...”
“yes, nor...”
“yes, nand...”
“yes, xor...”
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And those “emergent abilities,” are they in the room with us right now?
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kind of sad we decided to call them AI labs and not modeling agencies
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🎞️ vid of the mind-bending
@cogsecconf
fireside chat with
@contrapoints
@danrather
@trufelman
is now available!
topics: media vs entertainment, the aesthetics of trust, reading (or not reading) comments, ideological purity, fashion advice, and much more.
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my favorite conference call tropes, in order:
1. “I think you’re on mute.”
2. “Sorry, I was on mute.”
3. “Can everyone mute?”
4. “Who was that who just joined?”
5. “....OK thanks, everyone.”
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TIL they used Otto von Bismarck to advertise Budweiser back in the day
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are you fucking kidding me
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job news:
i’m glad to officially announce that i’ll be a research fellow at
@CSETGeorgetown
this year!
research will focus on the politics of semiconductor supply chains and the social dynamics of the machine learning field
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finished my project of reading all the cormac mccarthy novels and it permanently rewired my brain
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The California Review of Images and Mark Zuckerberg is out today! Six amazing essays on the visual culture of Zuck:
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wonder if any organized crime organizations run on jira, or if they have their own industry specific solution
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the biggest flaw of techno-optimism is that it indulges the illusion that technologists are actually the ones in charge when it comes to what ultimately happens to a technology
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🪄 frankly kind of sad that technical books no longer have this aesthetic
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😍 from the great acts of pedagogy dept:
bibliographer d.f. mckenzie used to give students a blank book and force them to guess what kind of book it was to demonstrate the semantic properties embedded purely in the physical construction of a book
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🎲👨💼📈 been thinking about putting together a tabletop wargame called “thinktank tycoon” where players head up research centers competing for funding, press, fellows, and policy influence
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📖 Depressed Former Internet Optimists: A Field Guide
(1) The Nihilists: “Things were never great, we’re realizing that now.”
(2) The Marxists: “Things were going great until the VCs and money started to get into the space”
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policymakers: it’s time for a serious conversation about artificial intelligence and society
also policymakers:
Nine humanoid robots gathered at the United Nations’ 'AI for Good' conference in Geneva for the world’s first human-robot press conference
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🌴 dreaming about doing a one-day symposium in NYC in the fall focusing on the topic of "tech trees", bringing together game designers, historians of science, and metascience folks
would anyone attend something like that?
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recently, i’ve been cataloging the various flavors of post-2016 internet optimist depression.
here’s a short field guide in
@techreview
to spotting them in the wild:
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🗞 news: after a decade in california, i’m moving to new york in december!
let’s hang
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still want to do a used book store that *only* sells books scribbled over with copious annotations
I really want massive collaborative book annotations to become a thing
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In collaboration with
@knightfdn
, the AI Initiative is launching a $750,000 open call for proposals on ensuring that the use of artificial intelligence in the news ecosystem be done ethically and in the public interest
Applications open in Sept! Details:
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🌐 announcing the web 2.0 book club! 🌐
this season, we'll be reading and debating:
Lessig, FREE CULTURE (2004)
Anderson, THE LONG TAIL (2006)
Shirky, HERE COMES EVERYBODY (2008)
Turkle, ALONE TOGETHER (2011)
membership at $5 / mo. join today! deets:
The Web 2.0 Book Club: Season One
Reevaluating the discourse of the 2000s internet
w2bc.substack.com
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💬 👀👀👀
coding up a little script that just continuously dumps and deletes text in slack / messaging apps so it always looks like i'm about to say something and then deciding against it
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say what you will about twitter, but it's still one of the best websites to close in a tab and then immediately, reflexively open in a new tab
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👨💻 thoughts on the epistemology of search, and what is implied by the Great LLM Shift:
the old school “ten blue links” made sense in an era where avg quality of the web’s long tail was pretty good, and the human curation on individual websites did a good job of answering a query
1/Today at
#GoogleIO
we shared the bold and responsible approach we're taking to use AI to reimagine our products, including Search with a new generative search experience coming first to Labs. You can sign up starting today.
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what is the least-known book that you recommend most enthusiastically?
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🦴 chew toy (n): a seemingly important policy task promoted largely for the purpose of tying up organizational energies that might be expended more dangerously elsewhere
some classic artificial intelligence chew toys, for your consideration:
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🚀🚀🚀 Today, I'm excited to announce COGSEC, a new conference focusing on the real-world *practice* of countering online influence operations.
Austin TX, August 2020. We've opened the Call for Sessions - please share with anyone who might be a good fit!
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🎶 i'm talkin' ad technology 🎶
🎶 i'm talkin' market failure 🎶
🎶 i'm talkin' combination ad technology and market failure 🎶
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we're getting two cats this weekend and they just sent this photo and my heart is gonna explode
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✨🌞 ridiculously excited to announce this 🌚✨
The Program on Advanced Divination, a four-day funded workshop focused on the development of new divinatory practices, running Sept 19-22 in LA.
Fellowship applications open from now until July 1! Details:
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i love love love that part of the general shift in favorability away from openai to anthropic has been in part technical but also in large part a matter of style: they’re just doing classier stuff with their product and research over time
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🎲 all this implies a bigger bet taking place about what people want out of the internet:
namely that users are ready to settle for a *presentation* of information which is coherent, tonally consistent, and conversational even if the *substance* is inaccurate and error-prone
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📈😬📉 r/wallstreetbets manipulates the market, who manipulates r/wallstreetbets?
@intl_persuasion
pointed its systems at
@reddit
yesterday to estimate the cost of generating fake accounts for pushing upvotes / downvotes
it's cheap! we estimate an avg of about $0.09 per account
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💡 a trading algorithm that just buys stock whenever a statistically unusual number of news stories use photos of trader guys with their head in their hands
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the topic of “imagined jurisprudence” - how public folklore about what the law is shape the world - is a magnificent field of legal scholarship waiting to be born
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RIP to James C. Scott - his "Seeing Like a State" changed my whole worldview
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student petition for algorithmic transparency in the hogwarts house sorting algorithm
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🏢🧙♂️👨💼🐉
sketching out a fantasy world where magic exists, but the process of casting is so glacially slow and resource intensive that at times it is essentially indistinguishable from bureaucracy or mass organizing
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(3) The Hobbesians: “Humans at scale are inherently terrible. We haven’t evolved institutions and practices to make communities operate at mega scale.”
(4) The Faithful: “The Internet is still awesome, just in places and spaces that we can’t see because we’re old.”
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