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For reference, this is the older Needle, which made us confront uncertainty by randomly jiggling within the likely range of outcomes. pic.twitter.com/rReMWD3jIY
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 9 novembre 2022
For reference, this is the older Needle, which made us confront uncertainty by randomly jiggling within the likely range of outcomes.
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The New York Times Needle is good. It was even better at illustrating uncertainty in the old days, when it vibrated, though we hated it because uncertainty makes us anxious. https://
sjdm.org/journal/20/200
907b/jdm200907b.pdf
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We finally have taught rats capitalism! And, fascinating, they behave a lot like humans in the stock market, displaying human investment biases including doubling down on losses & a tendency to avoid quickly realizing losses while rapidly realizing gains. https://
psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-15
335-002
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Related thread on how strategic errors can lead to complex cascades of failures.