The Silicon Society Signal: Volume 2
VOLUME 2
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Curated Articles from the past few weeks:
Good research has all the components of a good story, and improves the product. Drama included.
🗯️Quotable Bit: “The researcher has multiple roles: they’re the storyteller, the director, and the producer. The participants have a small role, but they are significant characters (in the research). And the stakeholders are the audience.”
The Internet Might Be Good for Us
Internet access has become as important as electricity and water - but is its ubiquity good for society?
🗯️Quotable Bit: “The researchers ran the data through countless models to see if they could find hidden factors that would alter the relationship between the internet and well-being, and found that the overwhelming majority of these models showed positive associations.”
Consciousness, Creativity, and Godlike AI
Mind-blowing interview with Meghan O’Gieblyn on human creativity and LLMs, with serious respect for her answering an interview question with “I have no idea.”
🗯️Quotable Bit: “Machines are rigid. They’re trained on the whole corpus of human history. They’re like a mirror, reflecting back to us a lot of our own beliefs. But I don’t think they can give us that sense of meaning that we’re looking for as humans.”
Beta Happenings
➡️We’re living our core value of 📹 Build Out Loud by developing our own community platform - and opening up dev sessions for member-attended Shadows. In the past 2 weeks, we have added custom member profile pages, image support in messages & member activity indicators.
➡️ Beta Membership is open for techies who are looking for a career-long upskilling home. Join your future-professional-coterie for weekly standups, tech & career office hours, workshops, Shadows, and more.
➡️ Inaugural Fireside Chat on Monday, 6/24. Open to the public | Reserve your spot here.
