Amazon Meeting Memo variant: Press Release + FAQ (more)

a document answering FrequentlyAskedQuestions (more)

What are the LLM Harms and Risks? Is there a good/reputable "list"? Is it ranked? (more)

Paul Ford: The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down. Suddenly, and not long ago, our dearest tech industry leaders began to suggest caution. Sam Altman said that AI is in a bubble “for sure,” albeit one formed around “a kernel of truth.” Mark Zuckerberg said an AI bubble “is quite possible,” though “if the models keep on growing in capability year over year and demand keeps growing, then maybe there is no collapse, or something.” Even Eric Schmidt is saying to calm down about artificial general intelligence (AGI) and focus on competing with China. (more)

tool of biowar; should this include accidentally-generated pandemic, e.g. from gain of function reseaerch?

2-dimensional, see also 2x2

aka asset bubble

artificial super-intelligence - AGI but way smarter/faster than humans

a Disputation Arena? Argumentation Visualization. Our goal is to make the best arguments on all sides of any public Debate freely available to all and continuously open to challenge and improvement by all. http://debategraph.org/ (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #118: Claude Ascendant. The big news of this week was of course the release of Claude Opus 4. I offered two review posts: One on safety and alignment, and one on mundane utility, and a bonus fun post on Google’s Veo 3. (more)

Paul Ford and Dan Shipper Transcript: Anthropic's Newest Model Blew This Founder's Mind'And Made Him Uncomfortable. (more)

Note-taking app https://www.remnote.com/ (more)

In the United States, math wars are debates over modern mathematics education, textbooks and curricula that were triggered by the publication in 1989 of the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and subsequent development and widespread adoption of a new generation of mathematics curricula inspired by these standards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_wars Basic Arithmetic

Another flavor of non-traditional Basic Arithmetic instruction? (more)

in culture, similar to monoculture

aka BigTech?

see Craftsmanship, The Craft, etc.

Gail Alexrod: How to Measure Product Market Fit with Superhuman Founder Rahul Vohra. They’re both even necessary. So the PMF score (very disappointed) measures a level of dependency on a product, either because there’s such a strong emotional connection or because nothing else exists quite like it. The NPS score on the other hand measures how strong your word of mouth effect is. In other words, how strong or how viral rather your product can be in the real world. In practice, one is not better than the other. You need both to build a meaningful company. One is gonna determine the fundamental success of the product, and the other is going to determine your distribution success (more)

Email app/service https://superhuman.com/, cf Superhero (more)

In doing Agile Product Development, there can be a tension between a "top-down" (I don't mean exec-driven, I mean mental-stack) Product Vision/Product Strategy/Conceptual Integrity and an incremental/iterative process of Thinking In Bets. (more)