John Lester

Partner, Oliver Wyman. and co-host of comedy podcast and silent partner

[guterman @danguterman]

about to gaslight an agolrithm by watching 30 hours of weaving videos

[guterman @danguterman]

stronger female characters is a good start but another thing that helps is writing very weak male characters. that’s what I’m going to do.

[John Lester @MrJohnLester]

@xlorentzen @JoyceCarolOates correct answer

[Oliver Wyman @OliverWyman]

Agentic AI has been getting tremendous attention in recent months, but that's not the real revolution, Interpretive AI is.

Unlike generative and agentic AI, interpretive AI lets computers understand messy, complex, and unstructured information and interpret it in predictable, defined ways, discover more in our @FastCompany article: https://t.co/TzDlkot1NY

#QuotientAI

[John Lester @MrJohnLester]

I normally have a lot of respect for my competitors over at BCG, but they and McK are putting out some just straight terrible advice on generative AI.

[John Lester @MrJohnLester]

@patio11 in a bank run, you have a choice between two bad things: freezing deposit withdrawals to some degree (eg bad for making payroll companies who is payroll funds were on deposit), or a fire sale. this discussion assumes both bad things happen fully. That’s not realistic.

[John Lester @MrJohnLester]

@RollinReisinger @pmarca A company that grows by serial M&A over many years typically gets such an economic boost through basic economies of scale that no other strategic or management effectiveness or cultural advantage is needed (or ever developed) to be in the top tier of results in its industry.

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

🤔 Milton Friedman's thermostat https://t.co/UVYMRySK4Q

[molly conger @socialistdogmom]

ok never mind it was all worth it just to accidentally stumble across this exchange between a judge, a prosecutor, and a federal agent where only the judge knows who biggie smalls is

[Elton John AIDS Foundation @ejaf]

Our CEO @AnneAslett1 joined @medcitynews at this year’s @OliverWyman Health Innovation Summit to discuss how far we’ve come since the early days of the #HIV epidemic, and what changes we need to see over the next 10 years to end #AIDS for all. Hear what she had to say👇

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

A (Very Long) Screenshot Essay on Meta & The Innovator's Dilemma

[Justin “Hoops” McElroy @JustinMcElroy]

all of your supposed shortcomings are just opportunities for collaboration

[saxo @looooooogaaaaan]

New Adam Levine dms leaked. wow!

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The biggest difficulty people (even fairly senior folks) seem to have in grasping that most deep learning models perform interpolation is that they think "interpolation" means "input-space L2 interpolation", i.e. linear regression 🤦

[John Lester @MrJohnLester]

@summerstay1 @ESYudkowsky But, those kids have seen many pictures and videos and cartoons and live examples of other animals, and of many non animal things. So they have a latent understanding of how animals differ from one another, and from rocks and people etc.Give AI same data too

[John Lester @MrJohnLester]

@The_Davenporter Will happily share your resume and interests, if helpful!

[John Lester @MrJohnLester]

@xlorentzen This will soon be done by surprisingly effective algorithms, to allow microtargeting of classics and best sellers and romance books. A version of Dune with Vietnamese American lesbian main character, or perhaps you prefer a Albanian aesthete in that role?

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

What happened is scientists discovered chlorofluorocarbons were bad for the ozone, countries believed them, the Montreal Protocol was signed, and CFC use fell by 99.7%, leading to the stabilization of the ozone layer, perhaps the greatest example of global cooperation in history.

[John Lester @MrJohnLester]

Ex ante decisions: across all future states, which action gives me the best average outcome?
Ex post decisions: across all possible past actions, which action maximizes my current state?
Therefore: investing, love, career, youth, parenting, life all very hard.