Looks like you picked Trials and Tribulations? I see what you did there. It beats Trials and Errors because a) it's a more evocative phrase, b) it's the original phrase, whereas T&E is originally trial and error, and c) it captures more of the experience of trying to make change in the world. (I think I've already made it clear how I'd feel about sticking your name on it, solutions-based or otherwise.)
Points for Social Problems Are Like Maths being the right amount of true, points against for reading more like a headline than a name. Nets out at needing to hear Philosophers & Sophists before considering any tier higher than the Valley.
That was a long way of saying ‘Matt Y please follow my blog’.
On a serious note, I think writers and tech bros have different minds and so the power rankings analogy breaks down a bit. Surely you are looking to find signals of a minimum ethic framework amongst those with the code, rather than have they got a way with words? Do they play the game the right way even if their team is called John Terry Shagged Your Wife? The AI pharaohs will never be funny (or even punny) but do they care about the other carbon based lifeforms?
P.S. Never trust a person who proclaims there is one greatest ever TV show.
What I'm looking for are signals about whether people are right, or making good faith efforts to try to be as right as possible, about the way things work, what is likely to happen next, and especially about what matters. (At the same time, being right is not enough, and some messengers are more effective than others.)
These signals can be found in the actions people take while on official business or their words when they think of themselves as off the clock. And they'll often be mixed: if Mrs John Terry Shagged Your Wife is excellent at making probabilistic predictions, you might want to find ways to utilize that skill without empowering her to unilaterally make world-historical ethical decisions.
Now that we're vesting such power in such people, I think we should be looking for a lot more than a minimum ethic framework: we should be looking for the highest possible standards, while assuming that's still insufficient and constraining the actions of organizations and individuals with robust guardrails.
Ohhhh do me! I still need to change my name. Planning to write about clinical trial abundance and ME/CFS, long covid etc.
I was thinking Trials and Errors or maybe Trials and Tribulations. Siebe's Solutions.. well it's a little presumptuous isn't it?
Looks like you picked Trials and Tribulations? I see what you did there. It beats Trials and Errors because a) it's a more evocative phrase, b) it's the original phrase, whereas T&E is originally trial and error, and c) it captures more of the experience of trying to make change in the world. (I think I've already made it clear how I'd feel about sticking your name on it, solutions-based or otherwise.)
My own background is in clinical research. I wrote about it a bit here: https://mostimportantblog.substack.com/p/being-right-is-not-enough
I'll check it out! Yeah this is what I went with for now, though the domain is already taken so I'll have to see what I do about that 🤷🏻♂️
Ooh ooh do me! Context: https://aveekbhattacharya.substack.com/p/why-im-starting-a-substack?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2xiuz
Points for Social Problems Are Like Maths being the right amount of true, points against for reading more like a headline than a name. Nets out at needing to hear Philosophers & Sophists before considering any tier higher than the Valley.
Yikes, guess I'm stuck down here then
Release the tape!
That was a long way of saying ‘Matt Y please follow my blog’.
On a serious note, I think writers and tech bros have different minds and so the power rankings analogy breaks down a bit. Surely you are looking to find signals of a minimum ethic framework amongst those with the code, rather than have they got a way with words? Do they play the game the right way even if their team is called John Terry Shagged Your Wife? The AI pharaohs will never be funny (or even punny) but do they care about the other carbon based lifeforms?
P.S. Never trust a person who proclaims there is one greatest ever TV show.
What I'm looking for are signals about whether people are right, or making good faith efforts to try to be as right as possible, about the way things work, what is likely to happen next, and especially about what matters. (At the same time, being right is not enough, and some messengers are more effective than others.)
These signals can be found in the actions people take while on official business or their words when they think of themselves as off the clock. And they'll often be mixed: if Mrs John Terry Shagged Your Wife is excellent at making probabilistic predictions, you might want to find ways to utilize that skill without empowering her to unilaterally make world-historical ethical decisions.
Now that we're vesting such power in such people, I think we should be looking for a lot more than a minimum ethic framework: we should be looking for the highest possible standards, while assuming that's still insufficient and constraining the actions of organizations and individuals with robust guardrails.
Over at The Power Law, Peter does a good job stripping away the metaphor and saying it straight: https://blog.peterwildeford.com/p/mythos-is-just-the-beginning