An even simpler solution would be for the industry to not make their product more addictive and toxic at every opportunity to maximize engagement.
AIM and IRC did not get us to this point. I doubt the original Instagram that was purely about posting dumb photos with your friends would have either.
Given how concentrated the industry is, the buck stops with about four dudes who decided this was the course they wanted to set.
Users have a choice. They like the product and use it. The product makes money by users using it. This is totally expected. We don't need regulation; we need to let people maximize their utility curves!
We live in a society that explicitly rewards that behavior. If you don't change the reward systems, you cannot expect the system to just "become better". There is a reason AIM doesn't exist anymore and IRC is just a few grey hairs shouting at clouds. They lost. Capitalism won.
If you wanted to do this for real, your would double the size of 18F (which was doing extraordinary work), and given the Inspectors General a blank check to eliminate fraud. These are both apolitical entities. Frankly the only people this would upset is the legacy government contractors.
So obviously they eliminated one and gutted the other.
Is that very different from what Joe Gebbia is doing now as chief design officer? Seems to be largely a rebranding of 18F's mission with different people and prioritization
I don't know how into building organizations you are, but 18f succeeded. they had a small footprint, and outsized impact, and really good relationships with the rest of the government. That kind of effectiveness is really difficult to grow in a massive bureaucracy. If your goal is efficiency you try to nurture that success.
throwing it away and starting over for purely political reasons is a completely negative outcome. the best you could hope for is to replicate what it was, but odds are against you.
18F was founded during the Obama administration, so absolutely no one in MAGA-world will ever have considered it apolitical.
One of the many fired IGs last year was investigating Neurolink - so noone in Musk-world will have considered them apolitical either.
Nothing government-related or government-adjacent will ever be broadly accepted as apolitical again in the US, regardless of intent or truth. Its very depressing.
This is lost on people. A 98% accurate automation is useful if you can programmatically identify the 2% of cases that need human review. If you can’t, and it matters, then every case needs human review.
So you lose a lot of benefits to the time sync, but since people tend to have their eye glaze over when the correction rate is low, you may still miss the 2% anyway.
This is going to put a stop to a lot of ideas that sound reasonable on paper.
Yes. I’m trying it, it’s too early for me to state a conclusion, but it’s not clear what the point is of an interface that requires magic touch best described as je ne sais quoi.
The alternative to this isn’t even necessarily no AI, just not using it this way.
Better yet, if you have something to say, please just write your own post, in your own voice. Why do you find this interesting? Explain it to me over coffee, but in ink.
If the reader wanted to hear from a robot we would ask it directly.
AIM and IRC did not get us to this point. I doubt the original Instagram that was purely about posting dumb photos with your friends would have either.
Given how concentrated the industry is, the buck stops with about four dudes who decided this was the course they wanted to set.
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