They tend to start out making products that western companies are willing to concede to them because shareholders sniff at their low margins. And they go into developing countries that western companies don’t like to be too entangled with…
From Interview: Dan Wang
May 22, 2023
By contrast, when a human body uses language, it is a clear indication of a deep and broad array of cognitive functions. As far as we know, human beings can’t use language without being sentient (and conscious and intelligent).
From Inframethodology.
Make sure you have the resources and resolve to develop your following and your skills regardless of how well you do in the first interactions.
From Seth’s blog.
On top of the dangers of weaponizing medical research, AI in healthcare settings poses a risk of worsening racial, gender and geographic disparities, since bias is often embedded in the data used to train the models.
From Axios.
May 19, 2023
Is there another kind?
May 18, 2023
I got a chance to write about what we are trying to accomplish in our project with Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web.
Unconstitutional TikTok ban would open the door to press censorship. Slippery? Meet slope.
May 15, 2023
May 13, 2023
May 7, 2023
These are great examples of using AI as a collaborator -> Hot AI Summer (or, my practical uses for AI generators)
These models are used and created by people who are deeply immersed in their particular subgenre, lending a depth of knowledge and empathy we cannot hope to match.
May 4, 2023
I spent the three days at the #GoodTechFest in Washington D.C. It has given me a lot to think about. Including thoughts on how we support and fund PublicGoodTechnology.
…let’s call it the “More Data framework.” This framework allows us to be pragmatic and work incrementally to achieve our mission of increasing shared understanding of our world. The framework explicitly states that there is always more to do.
The business community has grown far more quiet in the face of 469 anti-LGBTQ bills that the ACLU is tracking.
From Axios
May 3, 2023
I’m on the board of Chapter 510 , an Oakland-based writing program for youth. Tonight, I listened to my fellow board members talk about why it is urgent to support this organization and these youth now.
We know that when young people write epic things happen.
They make connection. They add their perspective to the community. They push back loneliness. In a world whose laws and disasters are silencing them, they make a joyful noise.
It is urgent because we want a world filled with diverse stories, diverse voices and we want these youth, in Oakland, right now to be a part of that rich future.
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This is the final inversion of blogging: not just publishing before selecting, nor researching before knowing your subject — but producing to attract, rather than serve, an audience.
From The Memex Method
Not only are political groups setting up nonprofits as fronts for political money laundering, they are using the nonprofit information infrastructure to help them spread falsehoods . . .
From Philanthropy 2173
Though it makes me feel like a grandmother on her deathbed to admit it, I remember the days when the internet was vast, when there seemed to be more places to go than anyone could ever visit and infinite things to read.
What a message to big brands and celebrities: stop posting to Twitter and they’ll reassign your longstanding username.
May 2, 2023
I want to noodle around for a moment with a different issue: deskilling.