The talented young mathematicians program was $500, a trip for the family to X was $500, the dinner table discussion happened, and we stayed home that summer.
@patio11
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Prioritizing Child Education Over Commercial Media Consumption
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“You’re giving a popcorn movie for children designed to sell Minecraft merch too many brain cycles.” Bringing up the next generation properly should consume more of my cycles at most margins, etc etc.
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Minecraft creativity export messaging oversimplifies real-world constraints
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Also a shame that the explicit message shoehorned in at the end is “Minecraft unleashes creativity you can export to the real world, which actually matters” but RW creativity is shown as having same production function as Minecraft despite one line about “constraints.”
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Family Education Project: Remarkable Success Over Fifteen Years
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The family project, for about 15 years, was the education of five children. It was, judged against base rates and expected default outcomes, outrageously successful.
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Evaluating Aviation Information Accuracy Without Expert Knowledge
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“So how do you, a non-expert in aviation, know whether this is actually accurate or a hallucination?” Eh it coheres with other reading on subject, general factor of infrastructure, also worth some points for identity/background of author in a heuristic fashion.
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LLMs Generating Credible-Sounding Content Without True Expertise
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Part of why LLMs are so revolutionary is that being able to muster off four consecutive paragraphs and three stats in something that sounds vaguely coherent historically has meant “Yep, this is probably an expert.” (Somewhat disquieting thought but useful to know.)
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Consultancies Don’t Teach: Form Factor vs Actual Substance
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Have to add “consultancies don’t teach nothing” and also “many people will confuse something which has this form factor as also having the same idea density and/or level of connection to reality.”
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Government Advocacy and Internet Native Strategies for Policy Change
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This week on Complex Systems, @danielgolliher and I discussed how government (particularly state and local) actually works, how to effectively advocate for changes you want, how Internet natives have some advantages if they’d just use them, and a bit of stories of making sausage.
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Publishing campaign narrative as handwritten cleric account using AI
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(Which I’m going to publish as a one-page microsite resembling a handwritten account by the party cleric because why the heck not, AI makes that so much easier now.)
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Balancing Amateur Status and Professional Credibility in Tech
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I am self-conscious about a) being an amateur and b) having some quota of public geekiness I’m allowed before I’m no longer considered a responsible adult. Work in progress, obviously.