Back in the 1980s-2000s, there was an organization called
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility that worked to oppose irresponsible and dangerous uses of computers in warfare. Maybe it needs a reboot, in our new age of AI.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute...
βOne more real-world aside: Should Europe envy the United States for its tech sector? No. Aside from the fact that Europeans are living well, tech generates a big negative externality, because among other things it generates tech-bro billionaires, who are corrupting our politics.β
Land of the free...
New essay: βWhich Future?β
michaelnotebook.com/whichfuture/...
On how to wisely navigate risks from transformative technology, especially artificial superintelligence (ASI). This condenses much of the key thinking from my more extended essays
This sounds like an excellent idea.
Eliza effect indeed.
@frankfukuyama.bsky.social appears to have befriended with his supportive and well mannered ChatGPT.
So when you say you found fake journals in GS, you mean you found fake journals in the *reference lists* of real journals indexed in GS?
Examples?
Merriam-Websterβs human editors have chosen βslopβ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
βIf investors continue to price AI companies as if they will capture the economic value of labor rather than the economic value of tools, valuations will outrun reality.β
A must watch - Mokyr's Nobel Prize speech on how ideas matter for progress, where AI fits here, and where bad institutional decisions might harm things. His ageless energy and unlimited memory for history are exactly today as I remember as his student 15 years ago. www.youtube.com/live/jQCkCcu...
Make it Manuscript Central and weβre on!
This is the best thing Iβve seen since I donβt know when.
Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai
Today Iβm humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the ππ²π»ππ²πΏ π³πΌπΏ ππ΅π² ππΉπΆπ΄π»πΊπ²π»π πΌπ³ ππ ππΉπΆπ΄π»πΊπ²π»π ππ²π»ππ²πΏπ.
:-)
Archeologists speak of years Before Present (BP), with βpresentβ set to January 1, 1950βjust before nuclear bomb testing significantly changed the atmospheric ratio of carbon isotopes.
Given how AI is rapidly flooding the digital world with bullshit, we may need a similar epoch markerβJan 1 2025?
Some really interesting ideas about kinds of research and modes of governance/funding.
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Wow, thanks!
This is interesting.
This PDW examines the central role of artifacts in processes of development and change across fields and practices including entrepreneurship, innovation, project management, strategy, and future-making. In these and other areas, managerial work often amounts to artifact-centered processes in which final outcomes emerge via various βintermediate artifactsβ such as conceptual models, material prototypes, digital simulations, and operational plans. Such artifacts serve diverse functions: as focusing devices that produce shared visions and guide concrete actions, as boundary objects that enable feedback and collaboration across domains, and as unfolding artifacts that are left intentionally incomplete to invite creative engagement. While scholars in different fields are theorizing and investigating artifact-centered practices, there is little discussion across fields. This PDW aims to encourage such dialogue.
Looking forward to this (joint TIM, ENT, SAP, OMT) PDW with Jennifer Whyte, Raghu Garud, and Dimo Dimov at the Academy of Management meeting in Copenhagen.
π’ The Role of Artifacts in Managerial Design π’
#AOM2025
Program link: cdmcd.co/bRavzm
βLike every writer, he measured the virtues of other writers by their performance, and asked that they measure him by what he conjectured or planned.β
- Jorge Luis Borges
In 1981 NYT published a piece on the then-new citation index, and how it was being used "unintentionally" for performance evaluations
βI argue that todayβs AI excels at recognizing structure, but not at reframing it. It doesn't invent abstractions, ask better questions, or propose new ways of seeing. And that distinctionβbetween fitting the world and reimagining itβis what separates tools of discovery from discovery itself.β
Did you read Rumeltβs βGood strategy bad strategyβ?
Wow.
This PDW examines the central role of artifacts in processes of development and change across fields and practices including entrepreneurship, innovation, project management, strategy, and future-making. In these and other areas, managerial work often amounts to artifact-centered processes in which final outcomes emerge via various βintermediate artifactsβ such as conceptual models, material prototypes, digital simulations, and operational plans. Such artifacts serve diverse functions: as focusing devices that produce shared visions and guide concrete actions, as boundary objects that enable feedback and collaboration across domains, and as unfolding artifacts that are left intentionally incomplete to invite creative engagement. While scholars in different fields are theorizing and investigating artifact-centered practices, there is little discussion across fields. This PDW aims to encourage such dialogue.
Looking forward to this (joint TIM, ENT, SAP, OMT) PDW with Jennifer Whyte, Raghu Garud, and Dimo Dimov at the Academy of Management meeting in Copenhagen.
π’ The Role of Artifacts in Managerial Design π’
#AOM2025
Program link: cdmcd.co/bRavzm
