Zvi Mowshowitz: METR and Redwood Offer Holy #%^@ Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack (more)

anthropic engineer whose Sept'2026 loud resignation triggered the AI mis-Alignment preference cascade

Jared Peterson: Games: Agency as Art: A Behavioral Scientist’s Book Review. Well, if you find the right game, I will choose to make my life more difficult. (more)

Dan Pereira: Dealing With the Broken Job Market. I have a confession for you. I’ve never received an offer for any job I applied to. Not even a single time (more)

The situation where people's private opinions reach a tipping point and become publicly expressed and accepted. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/preference_cascade (more)

Alan Kay talk notes: 'When "What Will It Take?" Seems Beyond Possible, We Need To Study How immense Challenges Have Been Successfully Dealt With In The Past'. (more)

cf Problem Discovery

Frank Chimero: What Screens Want. What does it mean to natively design for screens? (more)

Michael Nielsen: Thought as a Technology. Have you ever felt awe and delight upon first experiencing a computer interface? An interface that surprised you with its strangeness, with a sense of entering an alien world? (ThinkingTools) (more)

Chet Richards 2004 book Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business ISBN:1413453767 (more)

person who get/has to do the decision making

Uncertainty Project: Improving strategic decision making in 2024. 3 Challenges for improving strategic decision making in 2024... (more)

Dialogue process using IBIS, Shared Display, and Active Listening. Dialogue Mapping™ is a radically inclusive facilitation process that creates a diagram or 'map' (cf mind-map) that captures and connects participants' comments as a meeting conversation unfolds. It is especially effective with highly complex or “Wicked” problems that are wrought with both social and technical complexity, as well as a sometimes maddening inability to move forward in a meaningful and cost effective way. Dialogue Mapping™ creates forward progress in situations that have been stuck; it clears the way for robust decisions that last. It is effective because it works with the non-linear way humans really think, communicate, and make decisions. (more)

NYC spends $44k/yr/student on public schools. Right-sizing Big Apple education could be even more difficult after state lawmakers imposed an expensive class size reduction law, even as enrollment shrinks, critics said. (more)

see Israel-Palestine

see Gaza Strip

The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza,[b] is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the West Bank) that make up the State of Palestine in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. The area is not recognized internationally as part of any sovereign country but is claimed by the Palestinian National Authority as part of the Palestinian territories. Since the June 2007 battle of Gaza, actual control of the area is in the hands of the Hamas de facto government. (more)

Pondering a claim-refactoring UI. You'd highlight a sentence, as in hypothes.is (annotation systems), and ask "what does this really mean?" (more)

Simon Sillison on Anthropic: How we built our multi-agent research system. OK, I'm sold on multi-agent LLM systems now. I've been pretty skeptical of these until recently (more)

Eleanor Konik: Strategy & a pilot named Boyd (Part I: Big Picture). One of the many things to come out of my business trip to Norway back in April was a discussion with my boss, Tristan, about several nonfiction sources he liked. (more)