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Overcoming Anchoring Bias: The Potential of AI and XAI-based Decision Support
Felix Haag, Carlo Stingl, Katrin Zerfass, Konstantin Hopf, Thorsten Staake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04972

Overcoming Anchoring Bias: The Potential of AI and XAI-based Decision Support
Information systems (IS) are frequently designed to leverage the negative effect of anchoring bias to influence individuals' decision-making (e.g., by manipulating purchase decisions). Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the explanations of its decisions through explainable AI (XAI) have opened new opportunities for mitigating biased decisions. So far, the potential of these technological advances to overcome anchoring bias remains widely unclear. To this end, we conducted two o…

“It's dedicated to urban spirituality, how different identities intersect in the urban setting in Hong Kong.” And he plans to continue his search for answers. “All my struggles deal with the suffering of others, the suffering of refugees, the suffering of North Korean defectors. My academic passions, and also my personal passions, merge together.”
—John Curtis /🧵

Holy shit Eero was a Harkonnen 🤣
From: @…
https://sfba.social/@garybarker/112061237497368336

Gary Barker (@garybarker@sfba.social)
Attached: 4 images “Brutalism Friday” “North Christian Church” Eero Saarinen, 1959, Columbia, Indiana. Saarinen was inspired by the steep steps at Angkor Wat and Borobudur and traditions that make a visitor interact with the architecture and gives a sense of magnanimity while entering the church. The odyssey from the exterior to interior is organically augmented to give worshippers a spiritual experience. The use of earthy materials, grey slate floors, dark mahogany pews to the spir…

Of course, I can't start a day without being awfully angry about some shit.
So #Gentoo suddenly undoes USE=lzma [and USE=zstd] that used to be enabled by default in 23.0 profiles, apparently based on "consensus" on the mailing lists. The "consensus" boils down to one conspiracy theorist developer complaining, and being supported by 3 users whose Gentoo contributions boil down to having to express their opinions on everything on the mailing list.
This isn't only a problem, because Gentoo is letting itself be controlled by a vocal minority. This is a problem, because we've enabled something that can affect program output, told everyone to upgrade and rebuild their systems, then pulled the carpet from under them.
Wait, did that random app start using LZMA compression now that you've enabled it? Well, bad luck, you won't be able to open your files anymore. Surely, there's no better #security than not being able to do anything!
Unfortunately, sys-apps/kmod had explicit IUSE= lzma by default for a while now, so there's still a risk that you'll be able to boot your system. That's not good for security at all!
#xz

Really happy to see such a high profile (and extremely religious) women’s basketball coach reflexively and confidently answer “yes” to this attempted gotcha question
#sports #ncaa #basketball

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley says transgender athletes should be allowed in women’s sports
If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play. That's my opinion,' said Staley.

When ‘ruthless’ Boeing cut costs, the damage spread: “Crush the workers. Share price. Share price. Share price. Financial moves & metrics come first,” was Boeing’s philosophy, he said. It was, he said, “a ruthless effort to cut costs without any realization of what it could do to capabilities.”
To drive down costs, Boeing chose to aggressively confront first its workforce & its suppliers rather than partner with them. It left both, Aboulafia said, “angry & alienated.”

When 'ruthless' Boeing cut costs, the damage spread
Boeing's leaders are tepidly admitting the shareholders-first, workers-be-damned strategy was flawed. It's an admission a generation in coming.

“.. a repeat of the can’t do attitude they turned to for decades when fighting fuel economy standards, then claiming the technology didn’t exist, it was too expensive, and consumers didn’t want it (they were wrong). Now the auto industry is dragging its feet once again, this time trying to use China’s progress on EVs as an excuse to slow down on U.S. standards. Really? When you’re falling behind, is slowing down really the right answer?”

EVs Are at a Turning Point, It May Not Be What You Think
Strong momentum is moving in the right direction to support the growing EV market.

"As the American Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein has noted, Hamas’ breakout on 7 October is better understood not as a war but as a slave revolt. And like slave rebellions throughout history – from Spartacus’ against the Romans to Nat Turner’s in Virginia in 1831 – it was inevitably going to turn brutal and bloody."
‘Are we the baddies?’ Western support for genocide in #Gaza means th…

‘Are we the baddies?’ Western support for genocide in Gaza means the answer is yes
The desperate smear campaign to defend Israel’s crimes highlights the toxic brew of lies that’s been underpinning the liberal democratic order for decades

When ‘ruthless’ Boeing cut costs, the damage spread: “Crush the workers. Share price. Share price. Share price. Financial moves & metrics come first,” was Boeing’s philosophy, he said. It was, he said, “a ruthless effort to cut costs without any realization of what it could do to capabilities.”
To drive down costs, Boeing chose to aggressively confront first its workforce & its suppliers rather than partner with them. It left both, Aboulafia said, “angry & alienated.”

When 'ruthless' Boeing cut costs, the damage spread
Boeing's leaders are tepidly admitting the shareholders-first, workers-be-damned strategy was flawed. It's an admission a generation in coming.

"As the American Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein has noted, Hamas’ breakout on 7 October is better understood not as a war but as a slave revolt. And like slave rebellions throughout history – from Spartacus’ against the Romans to Nat Turner’s in Virginia in 1831 – it was inevitably going to turn brutal and bloody."
‘Are we the baddies?’ Western support for genocide in #Gaza means th…

‘Are we the baddies?’ Western support for genocide in Gaza means the answer is yes
The desperate smear campaign to defend Israel’s crimes highlights the toxic brew of lies that’s been underpinning the liberal democratic order for decades