Folks may be tired of talking about the potential decline of Twitter, but this piece by a Twitter engineer on how the site might start breaking under the strain of new features & not enough people, is good Also, a useful perspective on how software decays https://
technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/106
2886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/
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Twitter Engineer Warns Platform Breaking Under Feature Strain
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Favorite Book on Extraterrestrial Life and Universe Exploration
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Yes. My favorite book on the problem. https://
amazon.com/Universe-Teemi
ng-Aliens-WHERE-EVERYBODY/dp/3319132350/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=73876c48-56c0-4448-b18f-654dcd55039d
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Dangerous VR and Tech Innovation: Ethics of Lethal Designs
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Fun things turned killer provocations:
Palmer Luckey (founder of the Oculus) posts a design for a VR helmet that can kill you, inspired by anime: http://
palmerluckey.com/if-you-die-in-
the-game-you-die-in-real-life/
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Julijonas Urbonas designed a roller coaster that would kill anyone who rides on it https://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasi
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MidJourney Progress Examples Summer Launch
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A few more examples – and remember, MidJourney just launched this summer, so this is a couple of months of progress (and this is without optimizing the prompts for the new version of the software, which would require some new approaches to get right)
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Management Must Address AI Cascade Risk Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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Yup. It would be good for management to consider bow to stop the cascade, or it turns to self-fulfilling prophecy.
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For-Profit Social Media Networks and Algorithmic Polarization
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This paper makes an important argument as to why for-profit social media networks will always tend to encouraging polarizing moral outrage, even if that was not the original intent of the platform creators. https://
x.com/emollick/statu
/emollick/status/1580568584606322690
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Strategic errors cascade failures in AI systems
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Related thread on how strategic errors can lead to complex cascades of failures.
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Sleep and Rest Boost Entrepreneur Creativity Three Times Over
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Sleep is also key to creativity: the creativity variation from day-to-day for a single entrepreneur was 3x greater than the difference between different entrepreneurs! The biggest boosts to creativity were sleep & mulling over ideas after work (meaning you had to leave work)
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Sleep deprivation impacts founder productivity and startup success
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If founders don’t sleep, bad stuff happens, in 4 studies:
1) Lack of makes you generate worse ideas
2) Lack of makes you think the bad ideas you develop are good
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MidJourney Improvements Show Rapid Generative AI Progress
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The pace of change in generative AI, as reflected in my viral tweets. I just took a bunch of AI art prompts I had used in various tweets over the past two months (one from just a couple of days ago) & put them into the newest version of MidJourney. Higher quality, less weird.