Suppose somebody is using a blade. Perhaps they’re in the bathroom, shaving. Or maybe they’re in the kitchen, preparing food.
Suppose they cut themselves with that blade. This might have happened because the blade was too sharp. Or perhaps the blade was too dull.
Either way, it’s going to be tricky to figure out the reason just by looking at the wound.
But if you talk to the person, not only will you find out the reason, you’ll also understand their pain.
Jeremy imagines a scenario where you’re trying to understand how someone cut themselves with a blade. It’d be hard to know how they cut themselves just by looking at the wound.
But if you talk to the person, not only will you find out the reason, you’ll also understand their pain.
But what if, hear me out here, instead we manufactured tiny microchips with sensors and embedded them in all blades?
Then we program them such that if they break human flesh, we send data — time, location, puncture depth, current blade sharpness, etc. — back to our servers for processing with AI.
This data will help us understand — without bias, because humans can’t be trusted — how people cut themselves.
Thus our research scales much more dramatically than talking to individual humans, widening our impact on humanity whilst simultaneously improving our product (and bottom line)!
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The curse of knowledge of cryptobollocks.
Presentation Inception. BWAAAAAAAMP!
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Reading in the sky.
Another day, another conference.
Where am I?
It’s time we took a stand: let’s stop teaching people how to be phished.
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All that talk of Baltimore has prompted me to do something I’ve meaning to do for a while. I want to direct your attention to the website of my best buddy in Baltimore, Daniel Brown.
A bouzouki playing researcher (the best kind) is investigating the phenomenon of "cognitive itch". You know: when a song gets completely stuck in your head.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you a brand new skin to wrap around the Adactio website. I give you:
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