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Marc Abrahams: Think Fast, Talk Smart

Nathan Taylor: Intelligence is prediction

Noah Smith: Nobody know how many jobs will “be automated”

Seth Godin: Real and apparent risk

Seth Godin reminds about the Rear View Mirror in the context of AI visionaries

Fred Wilson: Leading from the heart.

Nick Morgan: Use your negative bias to communicate better: ” Present the ideas you want to sell, push, or evangelize for as something that the listener already has, so that their loss aversion kicks in. Present ideas you want your audience to reject as risky business. In general, use painful, scary, and negative examples and stories to bring your most important ideas to life and make them vivid for your listeners and audiences.”

 

Doc Searls dreamt of the Unstill Life

Stephen Wolfram on What is ChatGPT Doing, and why does it work?

Small acts of kindness matter more than you think

 

Simon Willison: We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics

Jill Lepore: The Data Delusion

Some links to a virtual MBA

William Ury: The Art of Negotiation

 

Peter Drucker’s Coca Cola report in 1992 is an exemplar!

Alexey Guzey: Lifehacks

note to self: ask more questions.  seek to understand.

ChatGPT is making up fake Guardian articles. New territory: what happens when credible sources are cited by an AI, but are entirely made up?

Mastodon, ActivityPub, Fediverse… learning some decentralised language in this Verge interview with Eugen Rochko, Benevolent Dictator For Life, of Mastodon

A bunch of people took Tyler Cowen’s invitation to post their writing/blogs for publicity. Lots of great stuff in the comments.

 

Quit Your Job, suggests Wolf Tivy

A beautiful explanation of the forces that work on a simple machine like the bicycle!

Matt Gemmell says its okay to write less on the blog.

Some developments on GPT-4. Astonishing!

Everybody is the main character: on managing people

The Pattern of Technology Panic follows the Gartner Hype Cycle, claims this author.

David Perrel on Surrendering to your nature

The shortest paper ever written, 1974

Dan Hendrycks warns of AI risks getting out of control in this long paper titled Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans

Blogroll! I had entirely forgotten about this

A fantastic conversation between Jessica Wade & Tyler Cowen

The Five Levels of Delegation

Sayash Kapoor & Aravind Narayanan: A misleading open letter?

Jim Nielsen: More Everything With AI “Sometimes, I’m ok struggling in Word, in Teams, in PowerPoint, in tool ____ because if I’m struggling it means I don’t know the path forward yet. And figuring out the path, not being told the path, has always been the rewarding part.”

Danilo Campos asks What if Bill Gates is right about AI?

Creating a virtual environment with Poetry

Bob Ewing: Ideas worth exploring

Fred Astaire called it “the greatest dance sequence I’ve ever seen”

Nick Morgan: How to change someone’s mind

Chucking a sickie? The Egyptians had great excuses

Do plants talk? This is fascinating!

Richard Fisher: The Lexicon of “Long Term” thinking

Sketchplanations is a fantastic site!

Alex Murrell: The age of average

A useful ChatGPT prompt:

Here's my copypasta for when I want to use GPT to have a back and forth to learn something:

I want to learn about <topic>. In a moment, I'm going to ask you a series of questions about it. But before we get into it, I'd appreciate it if you answered as though you were a no…

— Matt Bateman (@mbateman) March 27, 2023

 

Daniel Bjorkegren: How could AI impact developing economies?

David Perell: Learning to actually listen