Most work on the impacts of automation hasn’t considered what happens if solving for basic judgement & creativity was the easy problem, but actually moving around & touching stuff was the hard problem.
@emollick
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AI-Generated Academic Articles Across Multiple Disciplines
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Since people asked: what AI thinks academic articles on literature, city planning, medicine, and existential risk look like. Guess which is which. Definitely an alternate universe.
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D&D Alignment Chart Maps Nine Ethical Lying Preferences
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Interestingly, the nine preferences that describe the conditions when people feel it okay to lie fit surprisingly well in the classic D&D alignment chart. There is even a true neutral! https://
katharinajanezic.com/static/Janezic
_JMP.pdf
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Elite Knowledge Workers Drove Industrial Revolution Growth Not Mass Education
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A puzzle about the Industrial Revolution: unlike now, there seemed to be little correlation between the education of workers & early industrial growth. This paper shows why: it was the presence of highly educated elite knowledge workers (& their inventions) that powered growth.
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AI Generated Academic Papers: Biology, Economics, Physics, ML
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What AI thinks we academics publish… I asked MidJourney to generate a biology, economics, physics, and a machine learning paper. They look like they are from an alternate universe where Reviewer 3 is an Eldritch Horror (aren’t they all), but I bet you can guess which is which.
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Blindsight: The AI Future We Should Avoid
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(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).
