Baldur Bjarnason: The risks of OpenAI's Whisper audio transcription model. This weekend a story from ABC News on issues with audio transcription machine learning models did the rounds. “Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said”. The report highlights a number of very serious and real issues, but in the process glosses over a few details that might be important. ((2024-10-25) Researchers Say An AI-powered Transcription Tool Used In Hospitals Invents Things No One Ever Said) (more)

Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said. OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.” (more)

Brian Balfour: There are four essential fits: Market Product Fit (not Product Market Fit), Product Channel Fit, Channel Model Fit, Model Market Fit. I'm going to dedicate a post to each of these fits, along with how you can apply this framework. (more)

Brian Balfour: Why Product Market Fit Isn't Enough. (Four Fits) There are certain companies where growth seems to come easily, like guiding a boulder down hill. These companies grow despite having organizational chaos, not executing the “best” growth practices, and missing low hanging fruit. I refer to these companies as Smooth Sailers (more)

collective action focused on the neighborhood or town?

Peter Limberg: The Meta Tribe. I was reminded of this sensemaking session, in which a few of us meta podcasters participated two weeks ago, on Tim Adalin’s Voicecraft Collective, just as it was dawning on us that the shit was going to hit the fan. A thought came alive for me during that chat: two tribes will form during this crisis: a kinetic and a meta tribe (more)

Writer, thinker, podcaster, and Stoic Peter Limberg convenes conversations about our fast-changing cultural landscape amidst the meta-crisis and how our many tribes and ideologies can better express embodiment, authenticity and "right relationship" to reality. https://newrepublicoftheheart.org/person/peter-limberg/ (more)

Kelsey Piper on Elite Hypocrisy. No society has ever done more than ours to require poor people to live like the elite do, and this is often really bad for them. We ban cheap housing because it's better for people to live in nicer housing. (more)

Steve Yegge imagines a Wizard School, a 7-yr Boarding School (Apprenticeship for The Craft) graduating 18yr-olds (Educating Kids) to become coders and CTO-s who end up as millionaires by 22. An interesting alternative to High School and a College Education. Hmm, but I Commented you'd have to interview 10-yr-olds, and I don't think anyone has a predictive process for that... And if such a kid changed their minds, and didn't want to be a programmer anymore, what else would they do? Steve actually makes a pretty good argument that they end up as Renaissance people anyway, but I'm not sure I buy that for teenagers.

Scott Young had Book Club: This month we read The Wizard And The Prophet by Charles C. Mann. It’s a story of two men: Norman Borlaug and William Vogt with different visions of the world (more)

wizardly name of Jason Fox https://www.drjasonfox.com/about

(male?) practitioner of magick

founder Reforge

generic version of TwitterCards - maybe OpenGraph

FoxWizard on journaling amidst the metacrisis. And if you're questing, it's worth kind of having a sense of what you're doing. And I find one of the most indispensable dispositions one can have is that towards daily journaling. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed. I have previously been heavily involved in sports betting. That world was very good to me. The times were good, as were the profits. (more)

Bryan Caplan: What Does the Success Sequence Mean? If you live in the First World, there is a simple and highly effective formula for avoiding poverty: (more)

A piece of content/experience that tends to nudge one toward a subversive (non-status-quo reality hacker) mindset. https://twitter.com/BillSeitz/status/1423311248276561934 (more)

product launch plan - growth plan, growth team, growth model

Jason Kottke: The Powerful Density of Hypertextual Writing. The NY Times has had a difficult time covering the 2024 election in a clear, responsible manner. But I wanted to highlight this short opinion piece from the paper’s editorial board, which I’m reproducing here in its entirety: "You already know Donald Trump. He is unfit to lead....." (more)