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Steve Bosserman

Reddit's Alexis Ohanian warns 'hustle porn' is 'most toxic, dangerous thing' in tech in... - 0 views

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work-life balance

shared by Steve Bosserman on 08 Nov 18 - No Cached
  • While the term “hustle porn” may not be well known, it’s easily understood:“It is this idea that unless you are suffering, unless you are grinding, unless you are working every hour of every day and posting about it on Instagram, you are not working hard enough,” he told the audience. “Do not let hustle porn win here. And do not let it infect your brain … It is such bullshit. Such utter bullshit. And the worst part about it is it has deleterious effects, not just on your business, but on your personal wellbeing.”
Bill Fulkerson

Text generation algorithms could fill the internet with fake writing - Vox - 0 views

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text writing fake algorithms

shared by Bill Fulkerson on 05 Mar 20 - No Cached
  • Bill Fulkerson on 05 Mar 20
     
    Depending on how you look at it, this technology is a powerful bullshit machine or a promising tool for artists. So far, the creative uses seem to outnumber the malicious ones, but it's not difficult to imagine how text-fakes could cause harm, especially since these models have been widely shared and are now deployable by anyone with basic know-how.
Bill Fulkerson

Statistical dark arts endanger democracy - and life - 0 views

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statistics life democracy arts dark

shared by Bill Fulkerson on 17 Aug 20 - No Cached
  • Bill Fulkerson on 17 Aug 20
     
    "The world is awash with bullshit, and we're drowning in it … this book is our attempt to fight back." So begins a passionate exposition of how the language of science can be weaponized to mislead both researchers and the public. Its authors are two scourges of the current 'infodemic', Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West.
Steve Bosserman

The 'Fake News' Era and the Problem of the Lazy Brain - 0 views

undark.org/...ews-post-truth-cognition-brain

cognition fake news critical thinking

shared by Steve Bosserman on 26 Dec 16 - No Cached
  • In short, the pontiff said, apologizing for his bluntness: We tend too readily to eat shit — and in a nutshell, he’s right. We have a natural tendency to readily swallow bullshit. We always have and always will. It’s an inherent facet of human cognition
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