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.
@patio11
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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.*
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Policy Inconsistency: Announcement, Rescission, and Implementation Gaps
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Would also note that a repeated issue that year was that Policy X was announced, Policy X was rescinded and replaced with X’, other actors would continue implementing X, and then if asked policymakers would say “X is not policy” to e.g. kill coverage which would be negative.
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Government Healthcare Policy and Private Actor Discrimination Ethics
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… private actors. (Not all of whom would have needed the explicit government imprimatur to discriminate against some patients, but the imprimatur caused many people to say “Well certainly not my call here. I can wash my hands of this.”)
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Government Actions on AI: Ethics and Accountability
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Some people I respect reason from “If we had actually done that it would have been monstrously evil” to “We did not do that.” Unfortunately, we *very much* did that. Up and down the U.S., at almost every level of government, and incorporated by reference into decisions of many