I’ll be at this event and assuming August productivity stars align will be showing off a roguelike game I’m developing as something of an art project and tech exploration of LLMs as an evolving-during-play rules engine.
@patio11
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California’s Institutional Priority: Managing Embarrassment Over Competence
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Also interesting how the state of California is institutionally far more concerned with being embarrassed than it is with being incompetent and when it detects it is being embarrassed by incompetence will deploy a sophisticated messaging strategy to quell the embarrassment.
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Moral Mazes: How Organizations Shape Ethical Perception
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It is interesting, in moral mazes, how after enough time in one of them you stop seeing the walls of the maze and start thinking that you’re just out there in the world like everybody else.
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Airline In-Flight WiFi Successfully Updates Mobile App
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Credit where credit is due: the in-flight wifi does let you update the app, which surprised me given general factors of competence in software systems for airlines.
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DoorDash Bizdev Seeks $200K Investment at Premium Valuation
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Bizdev at DoorDash: I dunno everybody says that.
Issuer: We have evaporated “everybody” out of this customer pool, and it is now super-concentrated at top end. See this deck for summary statistics.
Bizdev: You have my attention.
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Banking AI Products as Customer Acquisition Strategy
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Why? Because a lot of the value of those products is free to the bank *if and only if* they can convince third parties to cover the cost of it. “We will bring you better customers than the ones you will get through other advertising channels. Pay us to do this.”
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Iterated Games in Fees: Wallet Share and Product Exclusivity
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Incidentally I don’t think people appreciate iterated games in fees: one reason to use them is to gain share of wallet, as your users shift spend from competitors to “get their money’s worth.” Another is preserving exclusivity of certain products, which is a useful thing.
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Card Programs Must Be Margin Accretive Says Executive
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Less sarcastically: it’s a math problem conducted by people who are pretty good at math, and the marching orders they get are “In general and in steady state, all of our card programs should be margin accretive. Make it happen. If you can’t you’ll need a senior signoff.”
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California’s AI-Driven Healthcare Denial Policy and Consultancy Spending
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… neighborhoods to access healthcare was official policy and Californian government, among many other things, spent tens of millions of dollars on consultancies to build web apps to scalably enforce denial of appointments on basis of residence.
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Medical Policy Enforcement: Implicit Rules Shape Healthcare Professional Conduct
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For example, when X was “we will yank the license of, destroy the reputation of, and if possible prosecute any medical professional who delivers a dose out of order”, which was *definitely policy until it wasn’t* but which *shaped actions later, too.*