John Steidley

An Inkbridge blog by John Steidley

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If an org has ten employees, then there are ten different perspectives on how the org works and how each person contributes. If the organization is a machine, each model is a different schematic.

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When AI Answers Incorrectly

I spend a lot of time trying to explain how AI works to non-expert audiences. I also see many others’ attempts towards the same objective. Often, descriptions confusingly frame all AI training in terms of what “the AI does” “when it gets the answer wrong”. There are at least two issues with this.

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The Best Kind of Correct

There’s a fundamental tension between allowing speech as valid even when it’s not perfectly precise. Listening with generosity. Steelmanning. And precluding speech that’s ultimately wrong because of its flaws.

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System Zero

I had the fascinating experience of taking semaglutide (a.k.a. Ozempic/Wegovy, a GLP-1 receptor agonist) for weight loss. The drug viscerally changed my relationship with food, at least while taking it. But it also profoundly changed my relationship with myself.