Aaron Miller

These look spectacular

I had this happen to me with Prolific back in the spring. Paid a couple hundred $ for responses on an instrument that worked well pre-AI, and over half of the new batch was totally worthless slop. Customer service was worthless.

Imagine being remembered both for DNA’s discovery and for being an intolerant, intolerable person.

AI is Coming for Universities, and Grades Are Why Plenty of industries are getting stalked by AI right now. But if AI is the lioness, universities are the already-sickly members of the herd lamely trying to outrun her.

Plenty of industries are getting stalked by AI right now. But if AI is the lioness, universities are the already-sickly members of the herd lamely trying to outrun her.

(Also, I started a personal blog. It's 2008, apparently.)

www.aaronmiller.info/ai-is-coming...

Evening light over an old dairy barn. Orick, CA

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The boss of Gold Bluffs

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Man, you are in for a ride. Love that show. Katie still sometimes says “frak” and we haven’t rewatched it in years

The end of the day. Trinidad harbor, CA

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John Dickerson (@johnfdickerson) For a few months I posted clippings from my morning reading. Passages that struck me or that I believed or that excited my imagination. I asked AI to combine them all and come up with a coherent philo...

Remember those posts in the morning? I had AI read all 286 and come up with a philosophy: substack.com/@johnfdicker...

Should we just give cash to the homeless? A new charity is tackling homelessness with a simple approach. Does it work?

I wrote about some good news: a UK charity that's combating homelessness with some extremely simple, straightforward interventions that use flexible, decentralized decision-making and treat people as people. Their approach showcases the importance of experimental and evidence-based public policy:

Autumn mountain, blue sky (looking north from Mt Timpanogos, UT)

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And fall is her favorite time to show off 🍁

It’s a steep one!

Autumn layers (Mt. Timpanogos, UT)
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Two shots from Saturday night.

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A common misunderstanding people have about finding a calling in life is that a calling means being free from any frustration, mundanity, or discomfort. The things worth doing *all* involve work that is, at times, unpleasant.

Better advice is to follow your blisters, not your bliss. #fromclasstoday

You might have heard this before: “Choose a job you love, and you will never work a day in your life.” I think that's wrong, and misleading. #fromclasstoday

I love this study showing that when people ask "What could I do?" instead of "What should I do?" they come up with more AND ethically stronger options. The authors call this moral insight, a way of seeing past the first options that appear in a dilemma.

dash.harvard.edu/entities/pub...

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In a dilemma, it feels like you're choosing from a list of premade options. But that's not how decisions really work. The given options can almost certainly be improved.

Making decisions means *making* them, like crafting an outcome that upholds what you value most.

That sounds even cooler!

I’d never been before. It really was gorgeous

The 8x on the iPhone 17 Pro is pretty great

Sea cave near Proposal Rock, Oregon.

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How "Free Speech Culture" Is Killing Free Speech: Part One Blurring The Lines Between Official Censorship And Individual Criticism Built The Intellectual Foundation For Trump's Assault On Free Expression

www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...

The awards committee nailed that one 😄

That’s some serious street cred, Andrew 🔥

Same. I had to call because the website was buggy, but I was glad they asked why I was canceling.

I’ll restart if they find some courage.

During this period on the Fortune 500, Polaroid went from 480 to 205. Polaroid was an incredible company in its prime. And that's because Edwin Land, its CEO, knew where the real bottom line was.

- Elimination of time-clocks for determining pay
- A vocational exploration program for all employees
- Women hired into leadership roles since 1930’s
- First major affirmative action program following assassination of Dr. King
- Pioneering corporate philanthropy and community engagement

How much do you know about the original Polaroid? (More from my Helping class today.)

What most people don't know is that Polaroid was a pioneer in creating a workplace where people could flourish. These slides show the Two Aims of the company, and here's what these aims led to: