What is the role of people amid hyper-rational AI on one side and the simplistic answers of populism on the other?
To frame issue better or reframe them altogether. And to do that well, we need openness and pluralism.
We also need pre-orders.
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Kenneth Cukier
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Deputy executive editor . Coauthor "Framers" & NYT bestseller "Big Data". Board director & Fellow . Always curious.
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Exactly. Only people are #framers, with mental models - and the ability to meaningfully modify, adapt, abandon or invent new ones.
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For ChatGPT to be truly intelligent, it would need an internal model of the world.
The words it produces should be a description of that internal model.
Unfortunately, ChatGPT’s internal model is of the words themselves which makes it extremely limited.
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What a treat to host my old pal and her ace filmmaker colleagues including the legendary Norma Percy tonight for our first ever screening, this time of their amazing doc Putin vs The West. It doesn’t always have to be books OR telly…
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Still not has hard as putting together a weekly magazine.
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Dear leaders, what is preventing you from speaking like this?
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Thank you - very nice to say.
In a world of clever AI on one side and blind irrationalism on the other, we need to be better framers.
Frame better = better decisions = better outcomes.
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Highly recommend “Framers - Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil” by @kncukier, Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger and Francis de Véricourt. If you work in or have an interest in #metacognition , #problemsolving , #designthinking , #systemsthinking…lnkd.in/g5pp86xX
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We are all Big Brother now.
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Personal news! Today is my last day at The Economist. I am thrilled to be joining The Guardian next month as their senior China correspondent. Will miss all my clever colleagues but so excited to dive back into the biggest story in the world，好久不见！Show this thread
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Just imagine what it will do to ... journalists!
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One of the biggest questions with AI is how it interacts with skills.
For example, adding robots to surgeries doesn't do much for the best surgeons, but benefits bad ones. Low-skill surgeons are much worse than good ones, but robots close the gap by 50%! elenaashtaritafti.com
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He's 100% correct about science and religion. Whether space travel will mean we live forever... that doesn't seem to follow.
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In 1974, author Ray Bradbury was asked, “What is space travel going to do for man?” In response, he gave the most mystical, mind-blowing, and strangely moving answer I could have imagined.
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In 1974, author Ray Bradbury was asked, “What is space travel going to do for man?” In response, he gave the most mystical, mind-blowing, and strangely moving answer I could have imagined.
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The Dial reads like The Economist meets Granta. A global perspective, but with nuance, humanity, story telling and emotion
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Welcome to the first issue of @thedialmag:
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I was re-reading Whitehead's 1938 book "Modes of Thought" and decided, what the hell, it deserves to be made into an audiobook. I'm uploading it chapter-by-chapter to YouTube right now.
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Just discovered that video of the debate on technological progress I participated in at the @HTLGIFestival with @jesswade, @kncukier, and @therealcaitjan is now available online...
iai.tv/video/the-drea
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She wants to do her own thing.
He mansplains to her to "be patient, be quiet".
Is it AI? Or Human, All Too Human?
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For those who never seen AI communicate with each other:
2 AI bots (GPT-3) having a conversation 
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You know that crazy dream where a famous composer turns your comic into an opera and it’s performed at MIT? That’s no dream it REAL! But where are my pants?
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Very exciting news for fans of @sydneypadua's Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage - it's now an opera! Performances on 3/4/5 Feb at MIT, Cambridge, MA, plus talks from Syd on 3/4 Feb.
Find out more: guerillaopera.org/repertoire/thr
Tix: eventbrite.com/e/the-thrillin
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All that is without starts from within. How we see the world determines what we do in it.
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Economists finding 2% employment effect from minimum wage vs. 2% wage effect from noncompete bans
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The dream of progress
“Is technology improving our lives or providing us with more advanced means for moving backwards? We invited , , and Nolan Gertz to debate whether we must rethink how we think about progress.” #progress
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Congratulations. Can't wait...
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For us chronic @AnshelPfeffer fans, a gift for the new year. h/t @kfzbarrow @penguinpress @DHLiterary
"Stop the stupid" -- it has a nice ring to it.
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Former RNC Chair Michael Steele SLAMS Marjorie Taylor Greene: “If you understand how this works, Marjorie, then you know that this is about... paying the damn credit card of the country for the $8 trillion your president ran up between 2016 and 2020.
So stop with the stupid.”
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Good luck!
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We’re in London for the @BBDPAwards! CRUSHING is shortlisted in the Graphic Novel category 
Crushing - a gorgeous, wordless story of connection - is illustrated by @burrowsdraws, designed by Katie Heywood-Taylor & edited by Rosie Fickling 
Crushing - a gorgeous, wordless story of connection - is illustrated by @burrowsdraws, designed by Katie Heywood-Taylor & edited by Rosie Fickling 
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Rather hoped it was Saint Augustus... Relevant too, after all, since he formulated the idea of original sin.
But no, it's Caesar Augustus.
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חומר קריאה מעניין הערב על שולחנו של נתניהו. הביוגרפיה של אוגוסטוס, שבמסווה של החזרת היציבות הפוליטית ברומא כפה על הסנאט למנותו למנהיג עליון לכל חייו ובכך הפך לקיסר הראשון של רומא
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European Health Data Space: an important warning on ground-truth datasets and risks of misrepresentation and reliability
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👉 osf.io/preprints/soca
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The Taliban’s hatred of women extends beyond the living. It is now mandatory for store owners to cover the faces of mannequins.
These dystopian images are a sign of how much worse life is going to become for Afghan women if the world doesn’t stand with them.
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But by whom and to serve what ends? Income from ad impressions? Political polarization to weaken an enemy state? Something else? A self-inflicted wound? (Since in peaceful times, man turns upon himself...)
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Think about what’s being done to your dopamine levels on a daily basis and then watch this. In 1958, Aldous Huxley predicted a form of dictatorship that would rely not on force, but propaganda—and addiction.
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Mursal Nabizada was a member of the Afghan parliament. She stayed in Afghanistan. She did not leave after the Taliban took over the country.
MP Nabizada was shot dead in her home today.
Afghanistan is hell on earth for women.
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"I have one consistency, which is being against the totalitarian - on the left and on the right. The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy; the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes."
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Yes, ads were good actually, and gave us that balanced media everyone now pines for.
Subscription media will be a fractious, volatile circus of all against all (with a politics to match).
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The ad-driven media manufactured consent; the reader-driven media manufacture anger.
The former served consumerism. The latter serve polarization.
Ad money ceased to be the prevalent source of revenue for the news media circa 2010-2013.
#Postjournalism twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
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That's correct. But there's more to the story. The "GP industrial complex" is a 1. a source of healthcare rationing, by creating a friction for treatment, and 2. a way to enrich those at the top of the hierarchy who manage GP clinics. Sir Keir is correct to streamline it.
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Persistent back pain could be caused by metastatic cancer, multiple myeloma, bacterial discitis, osteoporosis, tuberculosis, spinal cord compression, multiple sclerosis.
But yes, @Keir_Starmer, let’s fix the NHS by binning GPs & their poxy skills at triage. Who needs them?
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At 1:25 they stop at a phone booth to make a call. Different world.
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It's fitting that it is Friday night, the night Miami Vice always aired from 1984-1989 because today - 42 years ago (1981) -the great Phil Collins let rip his classic IN THE AIR TONIGHT. It was later popularized by Michael Mann during the pilot episode of Miami Vice Sept, 1984.
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Exactly. AI is brilliant. But it has no inherent notion of causality, counterfactuals or constraints - unless we program them in. Humans are smarter.
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A nation born of humility and simplicity reminds itself of its universal values of freedom and human dignity.
(There is a small part of me that absolutely LOVES this.)
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This was what Miss USA wore at Miss Universe…
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3 Levers People Pull to Solve Problems AI Can’t
What Still Separates Humans from Robots. Reviewing ‘Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil’ by @kncukier, @Viktor_MS, and @FVericourt
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Classic Letter to The Economist, complaining about the price of The Economist
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New piece in ! An important second-order impact of remote work: Firm “boundaries” are blurring.
Remote work changes the calculus of what to do, and crucially, what not to do. It boosts freelancing, outsourcing and offshoring, just as Coase would predict: 1/
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If you don’t think today’s Republican Party has been radicalized, watch this clip. Unrecognizable.
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