But it’s useful to reflect that one doesn’t shut down e.g. public schools just because a public school is a terrible environment for someone with active mental health issues, and one would not shut them even if convinced they uniquely exacerbated those issues.
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Product decisions and mental health: learning from institutional precedent
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Apropos “How does one make product decisions in the light of them potentially e.g. interacting with users who are struggling with mental health issues”, would point out (not for the first time) that this is a thing societal institutions have a lot of prior art on.
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Social Coding of Online Opinion and Institutional Response
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There's a problem with opinion online, which is that most opinion is social coded now. There's a scale beyond which you just cannot have independent opinion and if you do, the status quo with a differing opinion will form an immune response. Many people cannot watch a movie today
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Bee AI Pendant Outperforms Limitless in Real-World Use
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I tested the Limitless pendant, the Plaud, the Bee, and the Compass and landed on the Bee as my favorite. Limitless stood out too much and I found myself constantly explaining to people what it is. I kept it muted my default in public and only turned it on for conversations after
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The Future of Work, LLMs, and Creative AI in 2045
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More in the full ep: what actually goes into that "craft," my hot take on benchmarks, what work could look like in 2045, advice for students, personality engineering + why we need more creatives behind LLMs
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AI Essay Grading Disrupts Teacher Productivity and Workload
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Good essays disrupt the production function of teachers w/r/t essay grading/correction. Some teachers give some students a bit of leeway to take more of their cycles than generally required, some of the time.
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Proof of Work in Education: Performative vs Real Learning
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This has been a recurring theme for me, too. “We will now produce a proof of work because your teacher requires it from us. PoW is a useful concept, and teachers have legitimate authority, but this is similar to dribbling in basketball, rather than similar to math.”
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Vertical TVs Rise as Short-Form Content Dominates Viewing
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with the amount of short form content people are watching, I'm surprised TVs aren't hung vertically
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GenAI’s Impact on Authors and Publishing Industry Debated
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As the 2025 edition of the Business Book of the Year Prize launches, the industry is consumed by the debate over whether GenAI is a threat or an opportunity for authors. https://
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Humorous exchange about ArXiv at ICLR OpenAI recruiting event
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Nope what’s that? Isa Fulford (@isafulf) me at the iclr openai recruiting event: random man: have you heard of arxiv? — https://nitter.net/isafulf/status/1917065779432067545#m
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