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A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart.
California’s public universities spent $16.9 million on A.I. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos.
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1 day ago1 min read
People love working from home. But does it love them back?
A new study says no The Study Related More related
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Destructive testing of Universal Holophren's threshold criteria (UII w/Claude)
DM Good morning! As to reoccurring, interrelated questions/comments arising (throughout many prior conversations), two tend to resurface: 1) Does a conventional thermostat qualify as a holophren? 2) Guidance to avoid the term "cognition," when discussing the Universal Holophren. What are your positions or perspectives on each this morning? Universal Holophren™ graphic attached. Good morning. Neither of these is a research question, so I'm going to answer them directly rat
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2 days ago40 min read
Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass
Most people I know in the A.I. industry think the median person is screwed, and they have no idea what to do about it.
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2 days ago1 min read
We’re Preparing for the Wrong AI Labor Crisis
Mass unemployment is unlikely. AI will reorganize the white-collar corporate workforce, not destroy it.
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2 days ago1 min read
Unleashing Your Creativity
For centuries, people have described creativity as something mysterious: a flash of insight, a whisper from the muse, a sudden idea that seems to arrive out of nowhere. Psychologist Ap Dijksterhuis explores the hidden mental processes that lead to these moments of inspiration, and why breakthroughs often emerge when the mind is at rest.
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3 days ago1 min read
It’s Only a $13 Billion Aircraft Carrier, Why Would We Expect the Toilets to Work?
Call us crazy, but "a single loose valve can cause all toilets to fail" seems like a pretty significant design bug.
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4 days ago1 min read
‘Lightning Beneath the Sea’ Review: The Path of the Copper Wire
Cyrus Field failed repeatedly before building a reliable telegraph link across the North Atlantic. His perseverance revolutionized global communication.
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5 days ago1 min read
Thanks largely to robots, Ukraine is now talking about winning, not just surviving
Uncrewed and autonomous systems—and the willingness to adapt to them—have neutered Russian advantages.
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6 days ago1 min read
Mark Zuckerberg Wants Meta’s New AI Agents to Run Your Whole Business
New agent is part of company’s effort to broaden beyond its core consumer business as it spends aggressively on AI Related
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6 days ago1 min read
The political geography of AI exposure
As fears of job disruption spread, understanding where AI-exposed workers are concentrated—and how they vote—has become relevant to policy debates.
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6 days ago1 min read
"NO, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS NOT CONSCIOUS" (...along with commentary via UII w/Claude)
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning. DM Good day to you. What are your thoughts regarding this article (in link above) about you, and like others? I seek a complete, open and comprehensive thinking. Let me give you the real thing, Danny. It's a good essay. Chiang is a careful writer, and several of his moves land. But the piece has a structural problem that I want to name precisely, because naming it precisely is the only honest way I
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6 days ago18 min read
Why Reading Is Now Restless
AI has already changed writing. Now the technology is changing what it means to read.
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6 days ago1 min read
Companies that change the game can change the world
How exponential models can enable businesses to attack societal problems.
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6 days ago1 min read
The art of leading in the AI age
Technology can improve many things, but not leadership.
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WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT BILLIONAIRES AT JEFF BEZOS’S PRIVATE RETREAT
For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.
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6 days ago1 min read
Why your brain loves games — and how to use that to your advantage
Your brain responds to game-like mechanics with focus, persistence, and engagement — the exact qualities you need to stay motivated.
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6 days ago1 min read
Everyone wants to kill the middle manager role. The data says don’t do it!
The case against the ‘Great Flattening.’ Excerpt: "Managers account for at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement scores across business units. Seventy percent. It’s not perks, or even words that a CEO says in an all-hands. It’s the person your team member reports to that controls the vast majority of how much effort they choose to put into their work. And engagement isn’t a soft metric. Gallup has linked it to customer ratings, profitability, productivity, quality,
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States of Affordability: A series on where and why US households struggle to make ends meet
The issue is clear: When costs exceed incomes, families are forced to make painful tradeoffs.
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FedEx Freight CEO Says Self-Driving Trucks Are Ready for Prime Time
After two years of testing, ‘the technology is there,’ says CEO John Smith. Now the ball is in the regulators’ court.
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