Rory Sutherland
@rorysutherland
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Vice Chairman, Ogilvy Group The Spectator's Wiki Man.
Sevenoaks and Deal, Kent
Joined February 2007
Bernie Marcus is the co-founder and former CEO of Home Depot. His story is insane ... he was in a gang as a kid, got fired in his late 40s, told Ross Perot he didn't want his money over a Cadillac, and kicked an investment banker out of his car on the side of the highway. This
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The weirdest thing about Christmas is how we all food shop as if the supermarkets will be closed for a fortnight from Christmas Eve onwards.
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Having seen that Welsh Labour just spent £114 million on a report into a why an motorway relief road got cancelled, the COVID enquiry cost £192 million and the rape gang enquiry is budgeted at £65 million (so far - I am not sure anything has actually been written) I would like
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One unfortunate side effect of the Epstein case is that it is now possible to make any man look like a pervert by simply showing them in a photograph with female faces redacted.
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All those great MAD MEN ad lessons from the ‘40s and ‘50s… STILL APPLY! On TWiST, @Jason welcomes marketing guru @TheSamParr from @MyFirstMilPod, to teach us the lost art of copywriting. And it turns out… Don Draper basically had it right all along. In the ‘30s, ‘40s, and
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New AI smart glasses provide live captions for deaf users, translating speech instantly in their vision.
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@rorysutherland I was just thinking how innovative it was of @apple to turn on subtitles for exactly the amount of time shortly rewound during a show because they realised the reason why end users often rewind is because they didn’t hear the dialogue. How have you been Rory?
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@rigormortis6 @rorysutherland Btw, I believe the most foolproof implementation of georgism is to calculate 2 flat values per acre, for each region of the country: 1 with planning permission, 1 without. This way, it would be easier to get planning permission under georgism, but you would pay for it.
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On Holy Smoke: Rory Sutherland joins Damian Thompson to discuss everything from Weber & Freud to Quakers & Mormons. Do spiritual choices affect consumer habits? What can modern Churches learn from capitalism? And is Apple more Catholic than Android? Link below. @rorysutherland
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Advertising guru – and the Spectator's Wiki Man columnist – Rory Sutherland joins Damian Thompson for this episode of Holy Smoke. In a wide ranging discussion, from Sigmund Freud and Max Weber to...
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Sounds like something @rorysutherland would observe. https://t.co/4FE3rD8efq
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Time to ditch the endless current events doomscroll & up the cultural level of your feed. Malvolio’s iconic letter scene from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (Act 2 Sc 5) Watch how the actor makes 400-year-old lines completely natural - a rare talent
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@rorysutherland It will take jobs, but it will also create the man-made goods those jobs created, more cheaply. So we will still be able to afford them, right? That would be true, but land is not a man-made good. Rent will still be due. The problem is not AI, it's that we are not georgists.
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For the LOLs, can someone ring them both and connect them on a three-way call?
no way this isn't killing call centers PolyAI just got Marriott, Caesar's Palace, and Gordon Ramsay's restaurants to fire their phone staff.. this AI handles every call and you literally can't tell it's not human here's how it works:
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numeric "goal displacement" "Goal displacement is a different diagnosis [than Goodhart's law] that is being made on a different patient. The problem is not in the metric but in the organizational form that needs metrics to function" cc @rorysutherland
Since I can’t get it out of my head, I wrote up my thoughts on Kevin Baker’s essential critique of AI-automated science and the logical end of processes that can't self-correct.
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"If you know what a floppy disk is... it may be time for your cancer screening"
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