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AGI Existential Risk Persists Despite Controls That Buy Time
This post is early this week to meet a deadline for an essay contest. Given advances in artificial intelligence over the past few years, it seems likely…
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Stephanie Losi
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Comfort Zones and Where the Magic Happens
We construct stories and lives that define our comfort zones: “I’m good at this.” “I’m bad at that.” “I’m a writer.” “I’m a data scientist.” “I’m a…
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Stephanie Losi
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Success to the Successful
The field of system dynamics identifies several archetypes: common patterns that drive behavior in many situations. One of the most salient archetypes…
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Common Applications - A View on Unintended Consequences
Note: I was away all week, so this newsletter is arriving Saturday. It’ll be back to Friday next week! The Common Application got started in the 1970s…
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Bank Runs and the Public Markets
Last week, as First Republic Bank headed toward the dustbin of history, I wrote this in Substack Notes: Would First Republic eventually have suffered…
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Stephanie Losi
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Interview with Mark Dolan - Systems Thinking in Practice
Mark Dolan is a regular reader of this newsletter and the author of Why Living Today Rocks. He worked for several years at SAIC (Science Applications…
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Stephanie Losi
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Bad PR Can Spark Change - But Not Always
Bad PR is complicated. As P.T. Barnum possibly said, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.” But that’s clearly false. Sometimes the impact of bad PR…
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Risk management for regular folks with a dollop of systems thinking
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