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Notes to myself, short pieces, works in progress, and dead ends. All subject to revision whenever I feel like it. Also, an archived copy of a blog I wrote for ten years.

Last updated on 2021-03-19 15 min read techsoc

Advertising, news, and houses of cards

Table of Contents Advertising: give the people what they don’t want In conflict with independence and authenticity Governance: not a classification problem Lessons Social media and the news Coyne again What would social media governance look like?

Last updated on 2021-03-28 3 min read uber

Uber-Optimistic

As Uber loses more money, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi continues cross his fingers and dream.

Essays

Finished essays, or nearly so. Some published elsewhere, some not.

2021-03-28 uber

Uber's public transit pitch misses the target

This op-ed was published in the Toronto Star on March 29, 2021.

2019-08-05

Medical machine learning and the importance of workarounds

A recent paper highlights “adversarial attacks” by physicians as a threat to medical machine learning.

2019-03-31

The incompatible incentives of private sector AI

Tom Slee1 Abstract Algorithms that sort people into categories are plagued by incompatible incentives.

2018-11-23

The Rise and Fall of the Sharing Economy

Essay based on a presentation to the Symposium of the Ernst Schmidheiny Foundation, Friday November 23, 2018.

2018-09-17

Transport: Time for cities to lead

Tom Slee, September 19, 2018, El País Series on Shared Mobility

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