#decision-making

I'm really pleased at how this essay by Tom and me for FIELD STATION turned out. It's about decision making in the AI era, using some physics metaphors:

One of the first questions we ask new clients is "how do you make decisions?"

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This post very much goes with my previous one about embodied cognition. Although we shouldn't allow people to wield capricious power based on "gut feel", nor should we accept the outsourcing of decision-making to LLMs. Especially when it's done in the way outlined below, by people unaware of the way that commercial full-stack AI tools are built to validate whoever is using them.