odds of human extinction (or at least really bad/deep collapse), most often because of hostile AGI

David Brin idea/patent for Disputation Arena. 2006-11-06-BrinBrownGoogleTalk (more)

In cognitive science and neuropsychology, executive functions (collectively referred to as executive function and cognitive control) are a set of cognitive processes that support goal-directed behavior, by regulating thoughts and actions through cognitive control, selecting and successfully monitoring actions that facilitate the attainment of chosen objectives. Executive functions include basic cognitive processes such as attentional control, cognitive inhibition, inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility. Higher-order executive functions require the simultaneous use of multiple basic executive functions and include planning and fluid intelligence (e.g., reasoning and problem-solving). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_functions

Genius? (more)

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz: The One Parenting Decision That Really Matters. How much do parents matter? (Raising Kids) (more)

small Residential area (more)

At some point we'll want to move, and I want to think through a climate change future. (more)

neighborhood quality data https://www.opportunityatlas.org/

Tyler Cowen venture (more)

cf Huge Invention, Bold, Exponential Idea, 10x; Change the World; Phase Change; Moonshot; BandWagon (later/lesser case?) (more)

Tyler Cowen: My Personal Moonshot I have tried to take with my own career. My goal is to be the economist who has most successfully used the internet as a platform to foment broad enlightenment. (more)

Desire... (more)

Top of the Judicial Branch of the USA government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States (more)

Conquering Failure Demand. John Seddon defines Failure Demand as “demand caused by a failure to do something or to do something right for the customer”. (more)

Bob Marshall: Intervention on People Issues is a Red Herring...* (more)

John Seddon: Alistair Darling’s back-office folly. Before describing my epiphany, a confession: I was a culture-change consultant (more)

Four Changes Coming to IRAs in 2025 1. Super-sized catch-up contributions for people aged 60 to 63 (more)

A digital synthesizer/sampler (more)

Steve Blank: a startup is a temporary organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable Business Model. (more)

Jon Lebkowsky: The Mirrorshades anthology, edited by our cohost Bruce Sterling, surveyed a literary subgenre that was called cyberpunk not because the term had any precise meaning (it didn't), but because it worked as a catchy marketing bite, a buzzword representing ideas and memes that had resonance more through attitude than content. The vague term cyberpunk became a conceptual mirror, reflecting rather than conveying meaning. Over time `cyberpunk' referred less to a sci-fi subgenre, and more to a movement that was the beatnik underside of the evolving digital culture, encompassing the countercultural fascinations of the 90s -- the computer underground, rave/house culture, zine culture, designer psychedelics, goth morbidity, etc. (more)