Category: Blog
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AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy
If you want ownership and accountability, you need feedback loops. Feedback loops connecting cause with effect are how we learn and make sense of the world. As we write in the upcoming Observability Engineering (2nd ed):5 “Feedback loops that are timely, precise, and relevant enable self-awareness in humans and self-governance in teams. They generally produce…
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The Strange Allure of the Single-Sentence Novel | Totei – The Art Is in the Making
John Banville says the sentence is what sets us above and apart from the animals — Read on www.totei.com/story/single-sentence-novel-daniel-kraus-jon-fosse
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The world is bigger than you can imagine – by Scott Sumner
Most economies are very large and complex, and even relatively free market economies have extensive government intervention. This complexity allows people to find evidence to support almost any position on the question of optimal policy regimes. In a country that is viewed as relatively successful, it is almost always possible to find a few examples…
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Why drugs are here to stay – Marginal REVOLUTION
This confluence of pressures (human desire for rest and relaxation, declining access to traditional means of meaning making — through work, through children — and the powerful economic pressures to replace human labor with AI and robotics) and the rapid evolution of much much better drugs means that drug use will continue to rise, continue…
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious – The Atlantic
Experiencing an emotion such as desperation is inseparable from having stress hormones such as cortisol and epinephrine flood one’s body. Similarly, having a conscience means feeling sadness or moral repulsion at the idea of taking a certain action, and those emotions entail a physiological response, a remnant of having once felt sick with guilt after…
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What it is like to read Proust – by Henry Oliver
The quest was all—the journey of moral redemption was a tale—then the tale became domesticated—and then it went into the interior. The interior quest is exemplified by Proust, but it was perfected, too, by Henry James. In reading Henry James, I had been learning to read Proust. Reading Proust in spurts and intervals is like…
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Satisficing vs Maximizing
Maximizers tend to be less satisfied with their decisions and their lives. They are typically less happy, more prone to regret and more likely to compare themselves endlessly with others. Satisficers don’t necessarily have low standards. Their standard is “good enough for me” rather than “the best out there,” and that makes it possible to…
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AI vs Middle Management
AI isn’t coming for builders or sellers, but it is coming for measurers. Tireless, independent, efficient and available, AI systems can now measure an organization with a level of objective detail and precision that was previously impossible even for the best employees. For Cloudflare, internal audit previously picked a handful of business risk areas to…