ZD 26.21: Sloppy Seas
Many things on the internet are slop these days, film at 11.
🫠Measuring the Rise of Slop (Daniel Parris)
Daniel Parris made a name for himself by measuring hard-to-measure phenomena and telling everyone about it. He applies those skills to the question of the day — how much of what you see is AI-generated slop?
🚫arXiv Banned AI to Help Academic Gatekeepers (Bojan Tunguz)
arXiv, the online pre-print paper repository behind a lot of the conversation in the AI space, increased penalties to a year-long ban for careless use of AI. Tenured professors rejoiced while independent researchers lack the means to properly check citations. AI is now doing real scientific work outside of the ivory tower.
✍️ LinkedIn Posts for $7 an Hour (Rest of the World)
Many of the LinkedIn posts you read from busy executives are really written for $7 an hour in Manila. Not all slop is AI-generated.
👷 After Automation (Every)
Every is an AI-first company. They have automated everything they can. They are discovering that AI and automation create more work for humans, not less. Agents can commoditize yesterday’s work, but you still need humans to differentiate the work.
💔 The Messy Middle (Molly Kinder)
How do we get from the world today — still largely driven by human labor — to the world where AI is capable of doing most jobs? What will the political backlash to this disruption be? How does the world work where law firms, for example, only need partners?
🫗 How the AI Water Usage Myth Started (Andy Masley)
The Washington Post asserted that a 100-word email generated by GPT-4 took 519 mL of water. It was based on back-of-the-envelope math and raw conjecture about electric vehicles. The real number is much lower.
🤑 Software Was Easy, Now Physics is Printing Money (The Indie Investor)
Venture capital spent the last decade-plus betting on the ephemeral. Those bets are swinging back into the physical realm with a massive structural bet on infrastructure.
📈 Consistently Outperforming the Market (Oguz Erkan)
One investor’s guide to how he consistently finds and multiplies his alpha to consistently beat the market.
📝 7 Prompts For Your ADHD Brain (MICHAEL CRIST)
ADHD can be a superpower if you harness it. Here are the prompts to get you there.
⚒️ Team Management Protips (Tools for Possibilities)
Kevin Kelly has managed a few successful projects, such as launching Wired Magazine. It is about the team, and they need to succeed together.
✈️ Argentina: The Passport Everyone is Talking About (The Ale's Letter)
Are you thinking about diversifying your passport portfolio?
🎟️ World Cup Ticket Speculation (Club Sportico)
Will World Cup ticket prices drop in the coming weeks?
The Look
El Nino is coming. See it sketched and explained by Sketchplanations.
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