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After all, we call ours a man-made world. And it is that, because mankind, with the aid of its technology, has fashioned our physical and social environment, our institutions, and other accoutrements of our society. But if ours is truly a man-made world, I claim that mankind can re-make it. And in that remaking process, the history of technology can play a very important role in enabling us to meet the challenges besetting mankind now and in the future.
Economic Opportunities for Our Avatars | Social Mobility in the Digital Age | l'Atelier
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We can indeed speculate about this possibility, as have many pop culture explorations of the relationship between technology and society. But at the end of the day, making predictions about people’s life outcomes is too risky, reputationally and legally, for tech companies. And in any case, their business metrics are not tied to predictions about people’s future outcomes, but rather what content people will engage with today. So, it is unlikely we’ll settle the question of the long-term predictive power of online data any time soon.
AI Snake Oil
Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
In conclusion: Keep an eye out for the incentive super-response tendency. If a person's or an organization's behavior confounds you, ask yourself what incentive might lie behind it. I guarantee you that you'1l be able to explain 90 percent of the cases this way. What makes up the remaining 10 percent? Passion, idiocy, psychosis, or malice.
The Art of Thinking Clearly
Rolf Dobelli
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