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More to the point, they [jittered strip plots or distribution heat maps] make more *visual sense* than box plots, so audiences grasp them in seconds instead of minutes, and they’re less prone to misinterpretation. **Ultimately, this means that using these chart types instead of box plots substantially improves the odds that your audience will understand and act on your distribution-based insights.**
I’ve Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You?
Nick Desbarats
The **lab mice problem** **Today's "subhuman" AIs are safe.**What about **future AIs with more human-like abilities?**
Today's AI systems aren't advanced enough to exhibit the basic behaviors we want to study, such as deceiving and manipulating humans.
Like trying to study medicine in humans by experimenting only on lab mice.
How We Could Stumble Into AI Catastrophe
Cold Takes
Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to solve their own problems. Rather than using applications in the ways designers and developers intended, they creatively reconfigure them to do unexpected things.
Folk Interfaces
Maggie Appleton
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