You Can Now Easily Download All CIA UFO Documents to Date https://t.co/LAnwA13zIY

@joevaccaro Very interesting recommendation, thank you for sharing it. Would you recommend this book in place of Misbehaving (if you read it)?

the “Institutional Imperative”—the tendency for companies to engage in activity for its own sake and to copy their peers instead of trying to stay ahead of them.

From “The Snowball” (Alice Schroeder) https://t.co/h2cfWgOh9N

The room for growth is still enormous. https://t.co/jqz3WcdHpi

Yesterday I was talking to a 60yo refusing to buy on Amazon. She’d rather break COVID lockdown rules and trust a random merchant (breaking rules, too) than trust online shopping systems.

This is in London in 2021, not a remote village far from a major urban center in early 2000.

“Then at dinner, Bill Gates Sr. posed the question to the table: What factor did people feel was the most important in getting to where they’d gotten in life? And I said, ‘Focus.’ And Bill said the same thing.”

From “The Snowball” (Alice Schroeder)

What is the book that changed your life? (not novels or religious texts)

Asked on Jan 12, 2021

On the risk of misuse of #AI language models:

“When Peter put his contact information online, it had an intended context of use. Unfortunately, applications built on top of GPT-2 are unaware of this context…”

Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number? https://t.co/4S1y9Xk9yh https://t.co/IAOl2EpcLl

One of the greatest abuses of our times is how many companies have turned the “customer service” against the customer. This doesn’t even start to capture the experience. Eventually, customer service will have to be regulated, too. https://t.co/BkFMyRPI6E

3/ Not only @roku puts ads in its UI, but it turns out that it also tracks users via their mobile remote control (thanks @Apple for exposing that). Why?

I bet #roku users don’t realize that either when they buy the apparently cheap HW. I certainly didn’t. https://t.co/xJzOlu3oc4