This is a useful thread to think about changes at Twitter. Some of these changes – massive cost cutting & layoffs, aligning of the goals of the company with the goals of the new owner – are common when firms are bought out. But private equity does it quietly, so we don’t see it.
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Murray Davis’s 12 Criteria for Theory Interestingness and Innovation
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The 12 things that make a theory interesting, as classically listed by Murray Davis in a 1971 article, also can serve other purposes: like deciding what is a good topic for a popular article, or as a guide for finding disruptive ideas for the future. …
https://proseminarcro
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Twitter Ouroboros: Self-Referential Feedback Loop Dynamics
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I am being sucked in by the rapidly forming Twitter ouroboros (or perhaps Twitter singularity)
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 5 novembre 2022
People on Twitter keep assuming that every one of my tweets is commentary on what is happening on Twitter, thus applying the findings to Twitter, ensuring it is commentary on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/rux4AFKwb1I am being sucked in by the rapidly forming Twitter ouroboros (or perhaps Twitter singularity) People on Twitter keep assuming that every one of my tweets is commentary on what is happening on Twitter, thus applying the findings to Twitter, ensuring it is commentary on Twitter.
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Understanding Complexity Science for AI Systems
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And to understand the science of complexity, this site is a great place to start. https://t.co/bv4wUcf51C
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 5 novembre 2022And to understand the science of complexity, this site is a great place to start.
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Critical Systems Safety: AI in Hospitals and Nuclear Plants
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It is exactly the type of complex system they describe. Hospitals. Nuclear plants. All places where accidents are rare, but catastrophic
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Social Networks Reduce Ethnic Tensions Through Cross-Group Connections
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There are glimpses of a world where social networks are a force for good, the way they lowered ethnic tensions in Bosnia. People randomly chosen to deactivate Facebook had more dislike of other ethnic groups after, since it was the only place they met people from those groups!
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Boycotts and Buycotts: Limited Long-Term Impact on Companies
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Boycotts & buycotts (where supporters buy the product to reward the company) against companies for the social positions they take are generally short-lived & have relatively little impact. A thread of recent research https://
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Entrepreneurial Decision Making Under Uncertainty
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I think about #10 & #11 a lot. They apply to entrepreneurs & also basically any expert who has ever had to make a decision under uncertainty.
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Complex Systems Failure: Why Cascading Failures Plague Modern Infrastructure
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Read these 3 pages. I post them every so often because I think it is some of the tightest, wisdom-packed writing on managing complex systems ever. And almost every system is a complex system today, which is why cascading failures are swirling around us. https://
researchgate.net/publication/22
8797158_How_complex_systems_fail
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