Silicon Valley
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- An End Of Year Opinion About AI Because Why Not; Good Enough Mitigation of Reasonably Foreseeable Harm … Shitty Silicon Valley VC people who lucked into more money than sense would counter this with: well if we were liable for the products we made then we …
- Better than Average; How People Work … Saudi sovereign wealth fund-limited) amount of average PhDs better than all the human PhDs? It does not help that the mindset of your typically Silicon Valley adventurer …
- Free-range, Organic, and Natural; The Original Promise … My perspective is more that the Silicon Valley adtech enshittification finally pushed too far. That the original promise of technology allowing people to connect and find each other …
- Words and how to use them to achieve and convey your intended effect and meaning? … Words, huh? "Tech, amirite?" There's a bunch of stuff going around where an influential [4] Silicon Valley figure invented [5] slavery by suggesting that the best way …
- On The Precipice, supporter edition … Even by then, the early lead by West Coast/Silicon Valley ideology internet companies might have been insurmountable, despite all the photographs of Tony Blair sending an email …
- An Institution at the Intersection of Technology and Society … This story, about how “ Using TaskRabiit and Venmo, a Silicon Valley Investor and his business partners had workers repackage non-medical KN95 masks... ...to sell to Texas emergency …
- Take your time reading this one … part of me thinks this is a particular and strategic success by the Silicon Valley VC set who have advocated for bottom-up successful definition of standards without …
- Snow Crash Ch13, Part 2; Everything Is Political … November 5th 2019 5 Retweets 38 Likes Saying Silicon Valley doesn’t have a political ideology — which in America is a bit like saying Silicon Valley hasn’t …
- Dunbar’s Goose and the Pump Handle … Then Silicon Valley’s dream and worst nightmare comes true: overnight, billions of people wake up knowing how to take control of the machines and computers running our …
- Scaling Bureaucracy … There are a few general thoughts going on here, and some of them are, for me, uncomfortably close to the Silicon Valley rhetoric of Disrupt All The Things …
- Some things … There’s a good Washington Post story about how some residents of Silicon Valley aren’t too keen on self-driving cars being beta-tested in their neighborhoods …
- Breaking the rules … So far, so… well-intentioned but about as awkward as many Silicon Valley-style products and features. “But Dan,” I hear you not saying, “why are you writing …
- What’s the target? … good call, autocorrect) you and representing you to a sort of Uber-intent floating over Silicon Valley. But - it’s not like people have started to notice that …
- Firebreak Protocol … is a really hard thing to do, and it keeps coming up in Silicon Valley hagiographies - that you have to be a dick, that you have to be …
- You're The Mayor of Terminal B Airside at SMF Airport! … Post, which has from my point of view a not-necessarily helpful headline (“ Silicon Valley's attempts to self-police are anti-democratic. They're also not new …
- As at Batman, I want a Batcomputer so that I can remain unchallenged as The World’s Greatest Detective … we don’t like hard problems, and it’s easy to believe that technology (more specifically, the stuff that “Silicon Valley” builds, like (free) networks that help connect …
- Division by Infinity … of the problems (wider/whiter) society is now having with the products of Silicon Valley. Here’s a quick example: Connecting People is an Unalloyed Good, therefore it …
- I'm OK … That are harder to verify? Which leads me inevitably to The Hubris Of Silicon Valley. It's one thing of course for a search engine to answer someone …
- So, What'd I Miss? … how can I make this better? How can I help? Another way of looking at this is Silicon Valley's uncomfortable relationship with libertarianism and prioritiziaton of individual …
- Random Walk; Black Design … It's Difficult which is in part about Facebook and how it's hard to do content moderation but really about how Silicon Valley needs to just try …
- It's Difficult … Facebook, "silicon valley", applying algorithms to people without an understanding of people and sociology, a public relations response, The Terror Of War, aka That Photograph From The Vietnam …
- SMALL MOVES, ELLIE … We’ve achieved peak Silicon Valley. https://t.co/KH9uS1fXkW https://t.co/vc9WrgRKqT" 2.0 New Product Amazon's new Home Base service is a "digital locker …
- Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it … HOLY SHIT HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT WE'VE QUANTIFIED NOW coming out of Silicon Valley quant. self. companies. But now we have Nokia buying Withings and my thoughts …
- You Want To Classify Prime Numbers Now? … but let's just make sure that you're a dude working in Silicon Valley" [citations needed both times]. I'm reminded of one of the tactics - if …
- They Should Have Sent A Poet … Washington Post's rather sensationalist headline proclaiming that "the next hot job in Silicon Valley is for poets"[7]. So. Some unstructured Short Thoughts that haven't really …
- ROUND HOUSE … then suddenly building software that touches the physical world becomes highly regulated and Silicon Valley goes home because that's TOO MUCH WORK. Obviously all through this, the …
- Black Design … At the very least, it's a crass statement that reinforces the negative view people have of Silicon Valley-style startups. I see the first hint of dissent …
- What You'll Reap; Foo Thoughts; The Next Generation … Thoughts A quick list of thoughts after Foo: - there are some problems that Silicon Valley has, I think demonstrated that it does not want to solve, or would …
- The Humane Calendar; Government 3.0; Digital Public Space … It's not like it's an objectively good calendaring system or, in the language of Silicon Valley, "fundamentally rethinks the calendar from the ground up", which I …
- The Networked Lens; Twitch; Sufficient Density … I was reminded by Chris Locke of Dave Eggers' The Circle[7], a sort of Swiftian cautionary tale as to what the geniuses are up to in Silicon …
- Not All...; Now Wear This; Uber … So, my point? My point is that the Valley isn't just like Mike Judge's Silicon Valley because he's skewering a thing, and when you make …
- Human Extinction; Let There Be Jobs … The other kind. [1] Will You Lose Your Job To A Robot? Silicon Valley Is Split [2] AI, Robotics and the Future of Jobs . -- An early start tomorrow …
- Usborne's Future; Phase Change; OK Google, Dismantle Barge … It may well be that we can point at Silicon Valley and jeer at the expansion of the what disruption means and the corruption of what it's …
- Seeing; Shallow; Better Taxis … The thought collided with something that I saw in passing on Twitter - that the relentless othering of Silicon Valley and its stereotypically empathy-less driven entrepreneurs who're …
- Solving The Problem … The internal lives of the tech elite, centred on the labour-saving innovations of Silicon Valley, are at odds with semi-atavistic conceptions of how people interact. Traditions …
- Calm Down. Breathe; Making Visible; Wearables … can't understand how that control is being exerted unless it is visible. Silicon Valley - and the tech industry in general - has in some respects a responsibility with …
- Meat Puppets; The Circuit … What I want to make clear, though, is that I don't think this idea of an empathy gap applies to just Silicon Valley and stereotypical (and untrue …
- Solid 2 of 2; Requests - GOV.UK 2018; Next … of the world, I think, can unfairly perceive Silicon Valley: Silicon Valley doesn't care about humans, really. Silicon Valley loves solving problems. It doesn't hate you …
- Kill Hollywood, Still; Sandwiches; Apple and Samsung, Still; A Weak Signal … So all this is background to Yahoo! trying to do a me-too Silicon Valley move on TV like everyone else that's going for the content play …
- Kill Hollywood; Not That Worried; Healthbook; Webring! … why would they want to announce something so early? Could it be, like another Silicon Valley company, it seemed prudent to do so before FDA or FCC trawls …
- Humane Technology; They Shoot Jobs, Don't They; On Depression … What Silicon Valley Needs To Learn To Make The Next Big Leap and basically not say anything new other than Jesus Christ Why Haven't You Been Listening …
- Numbers; Performance and Practice; The Kessler Run In Over 12 Billion … Episodes 28 and 29[1,2] covered me being introduced to Andy Cameron and Richard Barbrook's rant and manifesto against the utopianism of new/hypermedia Silicon Valley …
- Structure; Humble, Direct and Curiously Cautious; The Scale Of Things, Risks … that's interesting and in a deep way, at odds with a stereotypical Silicon Valley technology-focussed startup culture. But: and with a heavy heart, I have to …