I think some of the stuff you see as Musk criticisms were not meant as Musk criticisms (this wasn’t). But I also think it is important to make the business scholarship I share relevant, and to make sure people aren’t blindly emulating successful role models, so it does come up.
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AI Debate 3 Reaches 14K Attendees, Targets 100K
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AI DEBATE 3: Already 14,182 Attendees! Let's make HISTORY. Let's reach 100,000 attendees: Invite your LinkedIn network to #AGIDebate ! LinkedIn: https://
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AI Progress: Testing Generative AI Menu Planning Capabilities
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The best way to judge the progress of A.I.? Ask it to plan your Thanksgiving menu and then watch @priyakrishna actually cook the stuff. (This also happens to be the most fun you can possibly have working on a Times story):
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CEO Leadership Fails to Understand Social Media Product Strategy
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I don't think strategies that work for building spaceships (projects where people will tolerate a LOT of bad culture for the chance to work on them) are going to work for a social media service – especially not when the new CEO clearly doesn't understand /why/ the product works
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Long-term thinking: competitive advantage in ambitious projects
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most of the world has lost the will to do big things–incredible alpha now in working on a big project. most of the world has also lost the ability to think on a long time horizon. combine the two and you'll be really happy!
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Unpunished Academic Misconduct: A Systemic Ethics Problem
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Yep. There's a lot of bad behaviours in academia that go unpunished. This is not good, but probably also one of the milder ones.
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AI-Generated Academic Articles Across Multiple Disciplines
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Since people asked: what AI thinks academic articles on literature, city planning, medicine, and existential risk look like. Guess which is which. Definitely an alternate universe.
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D&D Alignment Chart Maps Nine Ethical Lying Preferences
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Interestingly, the nine preferences that describe the conditions when people feel it okay to lie fit surprisingly well in the classic D&D alignment chart. There is even a true neutral! https://
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Unethical AC Review Practices: Weaponizing Citations Against Researchers
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Unethical pro-tip: if you're an AC and you want to make someone else look bad, write a terrible meta-review and demand citations to many of their papers. Reminder that, despite the repeated authors here, we don't know who the ACs are. Don't jump to conclusions.
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Trust Erosion: How Minor Disappointments Compound Over Time
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Interesting model here for thinking about how it can feel like people suddenly, irreversibly stop trusting a product, when it was usually the outcome of a multi-year sequence of minor disappointments accumulating over time