“I define culture is three primary parts. The first part is behaviour. It's the behaviours of your employees that get embedded into all the processes we are already doing. The second part is processes. Think of the interview process – hiring, onboarding, recognition, promotion, feedback. All of those should have the behaviours integrated in them, ideally. The last piece is practices. These are kind of the daily, more informal ways that that we interact and connect – how we meet, how we communicate, how we make decisions and even how we learn.”
— Melissa Daimler

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Wisdom in fragments

A growing archive of 3,000+ moments, drawn from every interview.

It's as if AI has become a laboratory for understanding the nature of the mind.

— Susan Schneider

I do worry that, at the end of the day, we might be laying down the tendrils of surveillance and that they will be hard to remove.

— Susan Schneider

The same GPT, say 6.1 or whatever the latest model is, could be conscious when it's run on one kind of system and not conscious on another.

— Susan Schneider

A program or a model is an abstract entity, like an equation. Those are not the things that are conscious.

— Susan Schneider

Places like the US and the UK seem to be getting pulled in so many directions by so many different factions within the country that there's no cohesive view of where we want to go, what we stand for and who we want to be.

— Liam Bates

I think a lot of people love the idea, and it's romantic, but after a year they've gone, oof, that was a lot of trouble and some real hard work.

— Liam Bates

They tried every nasty trick to stop us. And it was only the power of the press that rescued us.

— Michael Bates

But you don't have a lot of choice about it. With Sealand, you can choose.

— Liam Bates

They would open every tin of beans or whatever was going out there, just in case there was something inside that shouldn't be.

— Michael Bates

Even the whole recognition thing is just the old boys looking after the old boys' club.

— Michael Bates

You can form an online community, you can be a Discord server, but unless you actually have some sovereign territory, it remains an idea in people's minds.

— Liam Bates

It only survives if people believe it should be there.

— Liam Bates

Normally what countries like the UK do is try and ignore things and hope they go away. Well, we've been there for 60 years, and we want to go further with it.

— Michael Bates

If I could capture in my work the difference between talking to a chatbot and what it felt like to open the door and have this woman come in with Mexican food, I would have won my argument.

— Sherry Turkle

This is a product. It's being made by companies. It's being sold to me. And it's trying to get me to do certain things, most of all to sit with it and talk to it so they can make more money.

— Sherry Turkle