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Listening to the Talking Planet Off the coast of Dominica, the Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is feeding thousands of sperm whale codas into the same kind of large language models (LLMs) that power human chatbots.
The Cassandra Tax Cassandra saw Troy burning before the first torch was even lit. She was ignored, silenced, and murdered, and the city burned anyway.
Why Effective Altruism Ignores Latin America GiveWell has directed $2.3 billion in grants since 2014, of which Latin America received 0.02 cents per dollar. Yet 220 million people in the region live in or near poverty.
How Successful Companies Go Blind The Mexican cavefish kept its eye genes for over a million years after the eyes themselves disappeared. Something similar happens to companies once they achieve success.
The Tragedy of the Engineering Commons The surest way to ruin an engineering team is to believe it will survive whatever you do to it.
The Product Manager Who Manages No Products Nothing reveals an organization’s philosophy of product quite like giving someone the title “product manager” while denying them a product.
LLM-Powered Self-Sabotage We do not need LLM-powered industrial sabotage. With humans in the loop, we can self-sabotage much more efficiently.