What do you want from the genie in the men’s room? A twelve-inch pianist or world peace?
The genie knows, but doesn't care — LessWrong
Followup to: The Hidden Complexity of Wishes, Ghosts in the Machine, Truly Part of You …
Import AI 451: Political superintelligence; Google's society of minds, and a robot drummer
Are there any genies that can be put back in the bottle?
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The Bet On Juniors Just Got Better
Why genies can make hiring juniors more profitable, & what you need to change to get there
A proposal for a perfect CMS
Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man, showing the ideal proportions for an adult male.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
A man from the future arrives at a diner in Los Angeles where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night-six-block quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.
a post-truth thought experiment · discrete blogarithm
Imagine that you had a magic machine. You tell the machine what your goals are. The machine tells you, in any situation, the optimal statement to say in order to achieve your goals, and who to say it to. The statement may or may not be true.
Jordan Rudess and MIT’s jam_bot: A New Era of Human-AI Musical Collaboration
As We May Think Credit: Mostafa 'Neo' Mohsenvand
The secret economics of a VIP party
There’s an invisible system behind every £100,000 bar tab and its currency is pretty women
Let's Talk Money · Interlinked
Money money money... must be funny... in a rich man's world (Zuck, Elon & Larry). How we get to 1B Users in the Atmosphere.
Nobody Knows, by Rebecca Solnit
After a few weeks of these unwelcome surprises, I made sure that the next time the cook came for me, I was holding a tray of clean glasses. He grabbed me; I yelped and let go of the tray. The shattering glass made a cacophony. The owner, another middle-aged man, rushed over and chewed out the cook — the glasses were audible and valuable in a way I was not.
