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The thesis I was reading spent the majority of it's time focused on John Boyd's OODA loop as a tool for critical analysis in high pressure or constrained situations. Table top exercises could also benefit from using these steps to slow down the thought process, expose what's actually happening, and sharpen these tools.
So each step could start by observing (which is generally what the GM will tell you, but you may ask additional questions to refine observational thinking). What do you look for in any given situation? How do you gather data? What sources do you use?
Next you would orient. Talk through this out loud. What does that data mean? How this fit what you already know, or does it challenge your assumptions? Are you observing something related to a previous action? What does that tell you about your previous action or actions? How do you turn the data you observed into intelligence you can act on? How do your observations narrow the options for the next possible action?
Then you decide your action. But you're not simply deciding, you're coming up with a hypothesis that your action will test. Anything you do is an opportunity to learn something about the world, about your situation, about the accuracy of the model you're using to make decisions. What belief does your next action imply? How will you know if that action was correct or incorrect? What observations would challenge your hypothesis? What observations would confirm it? Are those mutually exclusive, or are there additional observations or actions you must make to clarify things?
Then act. Finish your turn by choosing your action or actions (individually or collectively). Perhaps take a moment to write down notes, like what your observations, your hypothesis, and if you think your previous hypothesis was confirmed or refuted. You can review these all later to refine your thinking.
By exploring these ideas in a safe environment, you can train your brain to run through the process at high speed when under pressure. This helps you avoid panic. It's a lot like slowly practicing marshal arts moves until they become muscle memory, which then just happen without thought when needed.

What are the odds that Trump OK's Iranian tolls in the Strait if his family gets a cut?
https://bsky.app/profile/shipwreck75.bsky.social/post/3moiwfix7i22e

Shipwreck (@shipwreck75.bsky.social)
Official MOU text released today notably says Iran "will make arrangements using its best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge, for 60 days only.-CNN

Google introduces DiffusionGemma, an experimental 26B-parameter open model that uses text diffusion for faster text generation compared to autoregressive models (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers…

DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation
An overview of DiffusionGemma, an exceptionally fast text generation model with up to 4x faster speeds.

Is AI becoming more human, or are we discovering just how much of our "intelligence" is actually uncritical automated thought?
https://ocrampal.com/the-inverted-turing-test-what-ai-tells-us-about-human-intelligence/

The Inverted Turing Test: What AI Tells Us About Human Intelligence
Is AI becoming more human, or are we discovering just how much of our "intelligence" is actually uncritical automated thought? In this dialogue, a skeptical look at our new "LLM Oracles" reveals an unsettling truth: for most of us, the Turing Test has been inverted. We aren’t being fooled

from my link log —
GNU Recutils: a database management system using human-readable text files.
https://labs.tomasino.org/gnu-recutils/
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GNU Recutils
Fred and George, Turtles in love There are hundreds of cool command line tools that have been made over the years built on the unix philosophy. Plain text is powerful, ubiquitous, and human-centric. It was also the only option for computing for quite a while. It’s no surprise that some of the most sophisticated tools are focused on it. One such package is GNU Recutils, a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, plain text databases called recfiles.

YouTube announces a full slate of new and returning shows, including four new series from Alex Cooper's company and a global travel series from Trevor Noah (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/st

YouTube Upfronts: 4 Alex Cooper Projects and Dude Perfect Among Avalanche of New Shows
"Recess Therapy" creator Julian Shapiro-Barnum will put his own twist on the late-night talk show with weekly series "Outside Tonight"

Staff memo: Meta plans to limit employee token usage and encourage employees to use MetaCode, after internal AI spending forecasts reached billions for 2026 (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/to

Tokenminimizing: Meta Moves to Curb Employee AI Usage as AI Costs Reach Billions
Meta Platforms plans to clamp down on skyrocketing AI costs inside the company by imposing limits on employees’ token usage, the company told staff in a memo on Tuesday, just weeks after it pushed them to adopt AI tools in their work. The company is building an internal platform to track ...

Working in computer security, I've learned to be *real fucking careful* about this law and have heard of it being interpreted *very broadly.* If a client of mine described a system to circumvent access restrictions like this I would fire them. But assuming I didn't fire them, I would
1) tell them to shut it down immediately
2) tell them to talk to a lawyer.
LLMs, as a class of user, are clearly not authorized to access the information. By circumventing access controls, they have "knowingly accessed a computer without authorization." Those access restrictions exist to protect against various damages, including bandwidth use and "intellectual property theft" (another concept I'm not a fan of, but anyway). By violating those restrictions they could open themselves up to legal liability.
Now, IANAL. My job is to describe risk. That's a sufficient risk. It actually doesn't even matter if you'd win the case in the end, a lot of people just can't afford to fight.
But, in this case, it tends to be powerful people, for whom the law does not apply, abusing people who neither have the protection of the law nor the money to just ruin someone's life with a flood of lawyers.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030

Stuart Russell:
I have been developing AI technology for 50 years. And I believe that, in many respects, we have not properly thought through what we are actually doing.
It is as if we had been working on nuclear energy without ever considering how to prevent the reactor from exploding. Our entire way of thinking has been misguided.

AI Expert Stuart Russell: 'What Hitler Did, AI Could Do Faster, Better and More Efficiently'
Renowned AI expert Stuart Russell has become one of the technology's most urgent critics. He argues the dangers of AI have been vastly underestimated. In an interview, he tells DER SPIEGEL why.