Edition-132 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!
- A brain frying update and reset of what you thought you knew about platform thinking. Many new concepts and dimensions: https://stories.platformdesigntoolkit.com/the-real-future-of-the-platform-economy-838629ad3a77
- Interesting concept of data legibility. And why users taking control of their data may be oversimplifying the challenge. The author calls for global standards for data legibility: https://medium.com/doteveryone/data-legibility-and-a-common-language-coping-not-coding-part-2-8afb687de60
- An excellent review by Nicolas Carr of Shoshana Zuboff’s “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-facebook-corrupted-capitalism/#!
- About maps of memory spaces and memory grid cells. Emerging evidence suggests that the brain encodes abstract knowledge in the same way that it represents positions in space: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-brain-maps-out-ideas-and-memories-like-spaces-20190114/
- A critical view on the singularity, and what if intelligence becomes a singleton, alone and bored: http://lab.cccb.org/en/the-singularity/
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Just a simple remark about when we reach singularity and one super artificial intelligence appears .If it would exist how can it avoid that some stupid human pulls the plug and destroys it ? The host where it resides needs power.Would it have made backups and why can’t that stupid human not destroy those backups ? Distributed singletons could be the answer but they need networks who again need power and humans committing their money to run it and would US China and Russia agree to have one and the same singleton clone ? . A singleton will be a odd creature sitting behind glass somewhere in a museum which will provide its power if budget permits , some scientist will consult it once and a while but after some time and some big mistaken predictions destroying its reputation, it will be collecting dust and eventually we will find some pictures of it in history books.