Cognitive architecture designer and consultant.
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Marcelo Rinesi
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"The first breakthrough from superhuman AI mathematics was the discovery in 2039 of a meta-statistical pattern common to all screams of pain across almost every species."
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[1] Prediction market are mainly for sports but also for both profitable and pathetic plausibly treasonous corruption (OTOH, I wouldn't be the millionth person to note the multiple overlaps between war and sports in American culture, specially *this administration's* culture).
The SBJ doesn't consistently lean anti-corporate (the way US leagues and teams companies first and sports entities second is so charmingly American) yet I find this fascinating - parallel systems in football usually haven't been well received (OTOH baseball's chronotope is quite different).
[2] To be more technical, the way you make money in sports is by giving cheap shots to everybody so you make sure you get everybody with a vulnerability to develop alcoholism.
Wherein I mostly remind myself that journalism as it already exists --at least, as we already know how to do it-- is an extraordinary, irreplaceable knowledge technology, and whatever else needs fixing for it to thrive as it must it's not the discipline itself.
Restating the often stated, constant net access makes possible a texture for time that's ideal for some thing but not for others, and platform economics and our own instincts makes this the default, sometime to our detriment (depending of course on personal preferences etc).
Sure, if you want granular prediction markets you want to mitigate combinatorial explosion of market-making costs. You see where they are coming from.
OTOH, they are mainly for sports[1], and parlays are how you really make money in sports[2], so you *really* see where they are coming from.
FWIW, I try to only read & reply to emails twice a day at specific times, and same for RSS/newsletters/Google Scholar alerts. I don't always manage this, but when I do my mental health is better (and vice versa). YMMV - I know brilliant people who live and thrive in the always-on.
I played chess regularly up to early high school, although very little online, none by mail. One thing this article made me think about is how difference in the structure of time change the experience of the game itself, which now we all know apply to e.g. media and the thing you're doing right now.
