Resilience Coffee/2026/08/06

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Topic ideas: Reverse Centaur Doctorow's model of how AI is changing humanity https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-11-vulgar-thatcherism-there-is-an-alternative-f1428b42a8fd Connection to Ironies of Automation: https://ckrybus.com/static/papers/Bainbridge_1983_Automatica.pdf https://www.complexcognition.co.uk/2021/06/ironies-of-automation.html Sometimes you start fighting the model to get an output that's usable https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37534468/ two other papers worth reading Strauch, B. (2018). Ironies of Automation: Still Unresolved After All These Years. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 48(5), 419–433. https://doi.org/10.1109/THMS.2017.2732506 Baxter, G., Rooksby, J., Wang, Y., & Khajeh-Hosseini, A. (2012). The ironies of automation: still going strong at 30? Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, 65–71. https://doi.org/10.1145/2448136.2448149 familiarity blindness "unfunded mandates on your attention" People assume that indicators of failure is going to be worse case, rather than an indicator of failure https://academic.oup.com/chicago-scholarship-online/book/42322?login=false Manheim, D., & Garrabrant, S. (2019). Categorizing Variants of Goodhart’s Law (arXiv:1803.04585). arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04585 is an interesting paper on goodhart's law https://crisisengineering.layeraleph.com/ https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZwpH5lCD4 DIY vs bringing in experts Here's the youtube video for anyone interested. Y'all seem like handy people, so maybe it scratches an itch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4UKahuBUVQ Lateral movement deprioritization Consultancy models