I have gradually introduced Lillian to the concept of an oracle who can answer questions like: “An American wants a metaphor for a stubborn person. What do they want?” followed by “What is a mule?”
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Children’s Perspective on AI Capabilities and Limitations
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Children seem to have more clarity than many adults on how amazing of an advance that is, even when it only knows almost everything and/or is frequently wrong and/or sometimes makes mistakes in English.
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Payment System Fraud Prevention and Organizational Decision Making
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And to the extent that anyone has ever thought about the function of the payment system, it was one executive who called into them seven years ago with a blistering question about fraud, and so the much-put-upon peons highlighted Must Decrease Fraud By Unclear Amount on plans.
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Payment Systems Organizational Structure Impacts Career Development
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A persistent structural cause of this is that the payment systems handles (a large chunk of) all the money but is in an organizational backwater, such that no ambitious person could make a career by merely being in charge of the money. And so they are treated as afterthoughts.
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Why Reset Buttons Persist Next to Submit Buttons
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You don’t need to tie yourself in knots asking why the most sophisticated companies in the world still sometimes include Reset buttons right next to their Submit buttons which blow away all previous data entry. No one wants it, but equally no one cared enough to say No, WTF, No.
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Etsy’s Operational Efficiency Through Workflow Management Software
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In addition to demand aggregation and payments Etsy probably creates some operational efficiency for the shop by giving them reasonably competent workflow tracking software, the supply of which in the world is vastly lower than how many firms need it.
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Price Competition and Operational Efficiency Drive AI Market Savings
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"What drives the savings here?" Partly it is brutal price competition because instead of "you're going to get it from the first guy in driving distance you can find" searching by price is pretty common. Partly it is more *vastly* efficient operations.
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Etsy as AI-Powered Democratization of Specialized Services
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An interesting and unexpected use case for Etsy for me is, roughly, “One-off fabrication of anything which previously you’d have walked into a local small business to get them to use a fairly specialized tool and some skill to do, at ~10% of the price of that.”
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US Telemedicine Regulations Block Healthcare Delivery Innovation
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You see, in the United States, you are allowed to read most sentences over a telephone unless that sentence is a diagnosis, in which case you need a special piece of paper to read that sentence into the telephone. All the paper holders were busy doing more billable things.
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Professional struggles with malfunctioning web applications and system defeats
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I swing into motion as Stand Back Honey, I Am A Professional At Coercing Bad Web Applications To Actually Work. I make two calls to the office during this. The system casually defeats me, too.