What the future holds beyond 2020, by Jacque Fresco. Intersting ideas that have aged well.
Mike Masnick is on a roll - Who Goes MAGA?, Fascism For First Time Founders.
Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests, interesting findings - “We designed a rigorous experiment using seven well-established principles of human persuasion from Robert Cialdini’s Principles of Influence, testing each one across 28,000 conversations with GPT-4o-mini. The difference was striking. Overall, using persuasion principles increased compliance from 33% to 72%, more than doubling the AI’s willingness to fulfill requests it typically refuses.”
Optimize for reducing cognitive load, Linus Torvalds berated a Meta engineer on a PR they made, this post on Engineer’s Codex explains the “why”“, though pushing back against the “how”.
The shoddiness of their work, their love of spectacle, their constant speechifying, their disproportionate reaction to all setbacks, their dishonesty, their prejudices, their disdain for expertise, their willingness to trust quacks, their scapegoating of the less powerful, their embrace of performative gestures at the expense of substance, their misogyny, their ill-concealed social awkwardness funneled into needless displays of aggression—yes, this is all very much in character. The good news is that it is easy to diagnose this disease. The bad news is that if we don’t get it cleared up, our nation’s 250-year history will culminate in the same sort of recriminatory meltdown as an internet comment thread that spirals from “What did you do today?” to full Nazism with stunning speed.
— Hamilton Nolan