Fun reading, for people who share my weird hobbies. (Knowing how to do this would ease worries many software entrepreneurs have about being sued, because Warren Buffet has to keep score about how often he pays out for that, and when I checked in mid 2010s it was 40 bps/yr risk.)
@patio11
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Insurance Companies’ Regulatory Loss Calculations Transparency
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Apropos of nothing, but inspired by this tweet: with a bit of Googling you can find almost any insurance company for any product line calculating down to the basis point how much they expect to lose on any insurance company and swearing it on penalty of law to their regulator.
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Integrity Over Commission: Maintaining Honest Broker Reputation
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I do not use referral links, as a matter of policy. My reputation as an honest broker >>>> getting paid a commission, and even if no payment takes place many people would assume I’m compromised/compromising anyhow.
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TOS IP License Implications New Line Cinema Derivative Rights
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For a fun side quest, try to figure out what their TOS implies about the IP license from New Line Cinema for the movie-based derivative goods rights. 😉
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Email Automation Overload: Managing AI Tool Communications
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I appreciate that you think that and appreciate at commercial scales this will be effective but I will not link to it because getting 100 emails from this toolchain a week would DDOS my brain given my commitment to take seriously software people who write me.
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AI Commercial Productization Milestone and Emerging Social Implications
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I neither feel strongly positively or negatively about this development; mostly mentioning it here as a milestone marker for emerging commercial productization of AI and as an FYI to other people who may suddenly gain surprisingly engaged, articulate fans with infinite capacity.
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Why Average Freelance Writers Cannot Produce Quality Technical Content
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The average person available on a freelance writer site cannot confidently BS their way through the typical thing I write about. If you dropped me in the middle of this artifact, it reads as produced by an ~undergrad writer who *has enough understand to engage my brain.*
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AI-Generated Content Quality Compared to Traditional Blog Spam
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“Would it read to a busy professional as plausibly human?” As someone who has read a lot of blog spam over the years, with production functions that involve varied levels of human activity, this is clearly a better artifact than most blog spam.
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Cold Email Proof of Humanity: The Superstimulus Technique
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A technique for cold emails since time immemorial has been to include a Proof of Humanity prominently at the top. A thing many people, including me, advised was looking at someone’s public writing and making it obvious you’ve actually read it. This is the superstimulus of that.
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AI Toolchain Automatically Generates Undergraduate Reviews of Scholar Work
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Expected this but did not expect it to happen so quickly: someone has cobbled together an AI toolchain which scrapes publicly available writing of a target on a topic, produces an ~undergrad level review of it, then publishes, probably to let you butter them up via email.