How to Bell the AI Cat
published at https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/26/how-to-bell-the-ai-cat/
Topic
TechStuff
A collection of 19 issues
Soul is Rational: Why we need SBTs
also published on mirror.xyz - but I think I'll keep a copy here all the same. some of the thoughts evolved from the previous "minddump" draft...
The dismal science, also known as Economics, describes behavior as "rational" if maximizes personal satisfaction. Markets are
ideas, essays and frameworks
Sending these to a contact, made me want to pin them here as well:
A draft of an essay calling for more frameworks for stateless individuals: Citizen or Hostage
Started a framework for grassroots policy formation - Open Public Policy RFCs and wrote about it on medium - Taking Public
reputation and things
ok, just happy that Melvin Carvalho shared this with the W3C mailing list. Reputation space matters - I'm talking about human rights assertions here about bad things, how to verify and act on them - and I am really glad a few people might see this who can
Sense and Cents
The power of making sense...
The positive side of capitalism is a free flowing distribution of efforts and resources
Downside is that it is subject to both parasites and cancers
The real thing is the flow of information, effort and fixed resources. And this flow is more interesting if one
advising is fun because
if you give someone ideas, and they put in the work to bring them to life, it's like
its not so much that the perfect is the enemy of the good, its that the ideal is the enemy of the real
Someone has replayed your snap! Instant gratification for the long term.
I am not the snapchat type. I prefer books, code, and UIs that let me drive, think about what I'm doing, and build things over time. But with two of my kids off to college and Snapchat their preferred method of communication, I'm snapchatting.
What strikes
area51
I've been using StackOverflow for years as a programmer, and never before scrolled to the bottom to see the whole community of sites. Not only is there stackoverflow for plumbers and scifi/fantasy buffs, but http://area51.stackexchange.com/ lets you join or start a community of experts
Learning Communities Online
Just found P2PU - Peer to Peer University - on a list at reddit of online learning resources
This looks really cool. The ones I'm most excited about so far are
BOINC for citizen scientists
tools for content curation