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For the Integrity Institute, the label “integrity worker” applies to a broad swath of employees working on safety. Their [site](https://integrityinstitute.org/) reads, “If you have experience tackling any of these things on behalf of a social network, you’re probably an integrity worker.” They go on to list ethical design, hate speech, disinformation, toxicity, spam, and more than a dozen other areas.
🕵️♂️ The case for integrity workers - by Josh Kramer
🕵️♂️ The case for integrity workers
Josh Kramer
Adler and Van Doren suggest that the first and most important rule of skillful reading, active reading, is asking questions and trying to answer them. If you just dwell on that, what kinds of questions should I be asking and how should I go about asking them? How should I go about answering them when the author isn't present? And so on and so forth. [Unclear] They also say conversely, and this is meant as a criticism, an undemanding reader asks no questions and gets no answers.
Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, Why Books Don’t Work
Dwarkesh Patel
If whatever I was doing on the kitchen counter is now called “software engineering,” then ordering food at a restaurant should be called “cooking.” As much as I marvel in this new and (dare I say) magical way of manifesting products and services from thin air, I question whether it is truly a creative process anymore. Inasmuch as we pursue craftsmanship as a goal unto itself, what’s the point for us humans when the machines are going to be better, faster, and cheaper than all of us?
The Giddy Nothingness of Automatic Creation
Ben Sigelman
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