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> Probably. Most managers would also argue that because you're so great with machines, you'll surely be even greater at managing others who are supposed to be great with machines. Does that make sense? No. Do managers and executives think like this anyways? Yes.

I'd say the opposite is true. In modern management theory, the value of domain knowledge for managers is severely undervalued.

In The Art of Learning, Joshua Waitzkin talks about how this was a strategy for him in tournaments as a child as well. While most other players were focusing on opening theory, he focused on end game and understanding how to use the different pieces. Then, by going with unorthodox openings, he could easily bring most players outside of their comfort zone where they started making mistakes.

...and Sam Altman once again posts a response including uppercase, similar to when Ilya left. It's like he wants to let everyone know that he didn't actually care enough to write it himself but just asked chatGPT to write something for him.

Microsoft having a lot of partnerships with the military industry, and now also getting their hands on all of OpenAIs technology. In parallel, OpenAI stops sharing information about their models, making it harder for other countries to copy. Add to that the chip ban. Hm...?

Impressive how this post references back to a post six years before as the starting point. Shows the value of tenacity and sticking with it, as learning compounds over time.

What's weirder to me is how I can't remember even seeing them advertised within Spotify. I know there are some really need content Spotify is producing, but the ones I'm aware off I've generally found by accident somewhere on the Internet, never through their own UI.

Rather than wanting to confirm priors, I believe this usually is a problem with neither the PM nor the data scientist ensuring that the problem formulation is good enough before diving in. I.e., what data would be needed to actually test the hypothesis? Do we have that data or not? Is the hypothesis even formulated in a way to be falsified in theory?

I've seen so many analysis tasks where data scientists without questioning went away for a few weeks to crunch data and come back with some random graphs and statistics that are completely useless as decision support.

The Swedish island Gotland is of central strategic importance in the baltic sea, so in case of a conflict either NATO or Russia would seize control of the island with or without Sweden’s consent.

Not to mention to secure against a Russian invasion of the mainland, of course…

Well, human thinking relies on prior models/filters for understanding the world as well so that would invalidate us as having general intelligence too?

Actually, I remember reading an article from someone at Spotify who argued that the economics in that situation would end up hurting small artists and favour Taylor Swift much more than the current model.

As an example; big music aficionados might listen to 75 different bands in a month, which will mean 1% of their subscription money will go to each of them.

The large majority of music listeners though listen to 5-10 big-name artists only.

Distributing money fairly after what each premium subscriber listens too thus would end up favouring the big name artists much more than the current model they have.

I have no way of knowing whether this is true, but thought it was an interesting perspective...

I guess “emotional stability” is an inverted rebranding of neuroticism as it’s usually known?

I don't know about start-ups, but I think Portugal in general is still growing in attraction for remote workers. Great climate, still cheap and beneficial tax laws.

There is a very scary thing about digital art where platforms at any time can remove things or silently release a new version. It makes me uncomfortable in the same way as when newspapers online make updates to their articles with no transparent revision history of what was changed and when.

The technology just makes it easier though. The Foundations have been trying to erase the original Colin Young version of Build me up Buttercup that I love in favor of Clem Curtis rerecordings since long before Internet was a thing, as an example.

Kanye West was the first big artist I know to really utilize The new release model to break out of the old formula of releasing an album and then it’s done.

It was fascinating when Life of Pablo was released on Spotify and over the next few months was given continuous updates and patches, like it had been software.

Really proves the old proverb that great art never is finished, it’s abandoned...

Speaking from a European perspective, raising children to be productive members of society used to be peoples retirement security. Socialised pensions where other peoples kids will be working to pay for your stay in the retirement home changes that equation completely.

Thanks for the great resource! I first encountered Peter Thiels thoughts in his interview with Erik Weinstein in The Portal and was blown away by their discussion.

Looking forward to reading these!

...and then a financial crisis hits and suddenly they expect the government to bail them out because they didn't account for that risk in their models.

Yes. One of the key points Taleb likes to make is that many real life situations are fat tailed, i.e. extreme events are much more likely than what someone assuming a normal distribution would account for, which might help explain why the financial system turns out to be so extremely fragile over and over again every time a major event/crisis occurs.

"Communities and people that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.

[...]

While the rule on hate protects such groups, it does not protect all groups or all forms of identity. For example, the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority or who promote such attacks of hate."

So as long as you hate or incite violence towards whatever groups Reddit define as "in the majority", you are welcome? Mind blowing...

I assume he's referring to emperor Xi. I don't think it's correct to consider him a single point of failure though.

Sudo re-run last command.

alias hadouken='sudo $(history -p !!)'

Leipzig is way cheaper. I hear people comparing Leipzig to Berlin as of ten years ago or so when it comes to cost.

Wow, this title would make a perfect fantasy book title.