Join 📚 Izzy's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Izzy's read, .
Early pioneers of AI, including the political scientist Herbert Simon, realized that AI technology has more in common with markets, bureaucracies, and political institutions than with simple engineering applications. Another pioneer of artificial intelligence, Norbert Wiener, described AI as a “cybernetic” system—one that can respond and adapt to feedback.
Spirals of Delusion
foreignaffairs.com
So, even if you have an RCT showing positive effect, there’s still perhaps a 20-50% chance that the true effect is near zero.
Is It Fair to Say That Most Social Programmes Don’t Work?
80000hours.org
No longer do we drive places to acquire things: we summon the things to us.
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise