Automate the C-suite

Join the Digital Theory Lab for a talk with Terry Winograd on Monday

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This is kinda what my next book is about

This is suspected but not proven

and they say LLMs can't write poetry

Deskilling is a skill issue

I Taught Leonard “Jimmie” Savage’s Bayesian Decision Theory and All I Got Was This Fuckin’ T-Shirt

What was this

Not all skills deserve to be learned

Who is it? This is a bit what I’ve been expecting, maybe w synthetic/real proportion reversed

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This Is What Will Ruin Public Opinion Polling for Good

The Irrational Decision author @beenwrekt.bsky.social co-wrote a piece with @leifw.bsky.social for @nytopinion.nytimes.com about silicon sampling: “Using simulations of human opinions in place of the real thing will only worsen our broken information ecosystem, and sow distrust."

the Starry Sky above me and the SaaSpocalypse below me

sometimes! but often it just seems to be "if you can build anything, what should you build" and there's no shortcut for that answer - tools (like judgments) make up more conditions for predictions like that to work with, even as they present as ways through the conditoins

this is like, a real thing too often to count

I think I see this more as almost a tautology, like ofc the valuation of social stuff can’t be done in advance either by machines or by humans. There’s just a desire to know rather than to find out

All the papers make clear that the video game is Sims

I thought it was uncharacteristically based of them to suggest that sampling output is literal shit

We’re in the final phase of artificializing our society, politics, and social science

Opinion | It’s Called Silicon Sampling, and It’s Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling

It’s Called Silicon Sampling, and It’s Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling: Pure fictions are on the brink of being treated as scientific and political knowledge.
(@leifw.bsky.social and @beenwrekt.bsky.social, The New York Times-unlocked)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...

Wait what are people doing

set it up

wut.

this is gonna be exhibit A when a book in the future claims that "digital structuralism" or whatever was actually a government psy-op

i have never claimed to give anyone operational guidance

bruh
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Objects are made by men and used for many purposes The original letter:

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true

this one is true but it's the Palantir from the LOTR

Early Modern 2.0 intensifies