How technology spreads. “For a given technology, Rogers identified five crucial factors that influence adoption rates: relative advantage (the perceived benefits of using a new technology over existing alternatives), compatibility (alignment of the technology with existing social values and needs),… Read More »The Diffusion Dilemma
As my high school teacher used to say, not everything is on the internet, because I have not put it there. “For many people, GenAI is becoming their primary way to learn about the world. A large-scale study published in… Read More »Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge
Good tips to get yourself educated. “My recommendation is to pick three very different historical periods that you find fascinating. They can be any three, really, but ideally they will be a bit separated from each other in space, time,… Read More »A Study Guide for Human Society, Part I
Is it magic tough? “Humans’ first big meta-innovation, roughly speaking — the first thing that lifted us above an animal existence — was history. By this, I don’t just mean the chronicling of political events and social trends that we… Read More »The Third Magic
I am one of those people. Used to be really technical but not so deep anymore. “The people in charge of your software organization have to make a lot of decisions about software. Even if they’re not setting the overall… Read More »How I provide technical clarity to non-technical leaders
I totally agree
Kurzgesagt is not the only one. It is unreliable and bad for the world.
I do not really care but now I know.
I love Ed’s blog posts. You should read them. “OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT was next up, triggering an international arms race for AI and what looks set to be the largest movement of capital in technology ever. “I kept seeing… Read More »Ed Zitron is mad as hell
Lot of fun stuff. “People have exactly N names, for any value of N.” https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/