(Of all of the science fiction books we could be living in, Blindsight would not be my novel of choice.) Paper here:
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Measuring Willingness to Pay: Methods for Pricing Strategy
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I assume this is mostly being done for fun (right?) but entrepreneurs & marketers should know that you cannot assess willingness to pay with a poll. This paper gives a menu of methods to figure out pricing, plus a useful chart of pros & cons for each. https://
researchgate.net/publication/24
2382759_A_Review_of_Methods_for_Measuring_Willingness-to-Pay
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Secret AI: Why Humans Distrust Algorithmic Feedback Systems
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I expect that we are going to see an explosion of “secret AI,” where AI advice is delivered by humans. Why? We hate to listen to AI. For example, getting feedback from an AI system improved employee performance… until people learned it was from an AI, then performance DROPPED.
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Radio’s Role in Nazi Rise: Historical Media Amplification Study
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Analysis of radio broadcasts in pre-WW2 Germany finds pro-democracy broadcasts initially slowed the Nazi rise. But after the Nazis gained access to the airwaves, radio boosted Nazi membership & then it accelerated antisemitism (in areas of Germany that were already antisemitic).
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Path Dependence in Hiring and Organizational Scaling Strategy
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Path dependence for hiring is real, and disorganized approaches to scaling result in chaos later on. Paper here: https://
web.archive.org/web/2012012904
1737id_/http://web.merage.uci.edu/~cbeckman/Papers/Articles/No14FoundingtheFuture.pdf
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Citation bias in scholarship: how metrics distort quality perception
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A downside of Google Scholar is that it emphasizes citation counts. This paper shows that once we see citation counts, we think articles with fewer citations must be lower quality… it even affects readers who have cited that article in their own work! https://
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn
as.2012208118
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Google Scholar pricing and Semantic Scholar as billionaire-funded alternative
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It would actually be more comforting if Google charged something reasonable to institutions for Scholar. Interestingly, competitor @SemanticScholar appears to be the result of a billionaire's endowment (the Allen Institute for AI), so maybe it represents a long-term alternative.
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6.4M AI-Generated Images Map Reveals Human Interests
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Worth exploring: a map of 6.4M million images generated by AI, grouped by what the AI considers to similar images.
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 1 novembre 2022
Why you might want to explore it: it shows you what kinds of images humans are interested in; it teaches new prompts; & has surprising art.https://t.co/t1oUai8HJNWorth exploring: a map of 6.4M million images generated by AI, grouped by what the AI considers to similar images. Why you might want to explore it: it shows you what kinds of images humans are interested in; it teaches new prompts; & has surprising art.
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Bonus Incentives Double Escape Room Success Rates Study
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We know incentive pay boosts performance at jobs, but do bonuses also work for complex & non-routine tasks as well? Yes! Cool experiment finds that being given a small bonus for quickly solving an escape room doubles the chance people escape in 45 minutes https://
cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_
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