Philosophy (5)
Be the tap
George Mack asks who you would call to get you out of a jail cell. In a world where AI makes competence cheap, I think becoming that person is the one skill that is not being automated. Three stories of people who did not wait, and one company that did.
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Compared to what
"Everything is relative" gets used to end arguments about measuring people. The largest attempt ever made to weigh suffering says it points the wrong way: the relative judgment is the part that works.
Average by definition
Playing it safe is not the absence of a bet. It is a bet on the mean, placed on the one outcome that greatness is defined against.
This blog will change its mind
Darwin rewrote the Origin five times, in public. Posts here work the same way: every revision of the thinking stays readable, diffs and all.
The law Goodhart did not write
The line everyone quotes about measures and targets is not the one Charles Goodhart wrote. And the difference matters.
Nothing in that category yet.