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I do wish Vox would focus less on Abominable Intelligence content, but as per his own SSH he's a sigma and will do what the sigma feels like doing, not necessarily what the team, readers, customers, etc. want.

In my own IT business I'm steering as far clear from buzzwords as I can, in general, and each decade generates a few of them: cloud, crypto/blockchain, LLM/AI, etc.

Technology will never replace, nor replicate, the human experience.

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Mar 26Edited

Algorithms have some design basis from the development and execution of psychological behavioral conditioning and modification experiments. John b Watson "father of behaviorism" is behind operant behavior conditioning. He took those results into the advertisement industry in the early 30s.

Intermittent conditioning is used in slot machines. Very similar conditioning used for the social media thumbs up algorithms. It contributes to the addiction of dopamine through controlled social mechanisms.

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