Public, Peer-Review & Editing Process for Book Titled “Making Good Decisions”: Volume 1 – Part II: Section #1 – The Fiercening of Individual Competition
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For returning readers and subscribers, this post introduces Volume 1 – Part II: Section #1 – The Fiercening of Individual Competition
Summary
This section articulates two reasons (The Boomers’ “Me Inc.” & the Internet) behind our increasing need for “Tools, Checklists & Processes” to make good individual decisions, and introduces McLuhan’s “Tetrad” as a “Checklist” to see the “Meaning” of changes in a decision-maker’s “Task Environment”.
Further, in 2023, Large Language Models (LLM) accelerated the fiercening of individual competition that started when Internet search engines gave visibility based on popularity (i.e. Google’s “PageRank”). However, making good individual decisions rides on the mental model derived from one’s training & experience, and LLMs give visibility based on their training. The difference between Search-visibility from popularity, and LLM-visibility from training compounds disparities between mental models.
LLMs will magnify the presence and the impact of the “Puzzles, Paradoxes & Anomalies” that come from unfit “Axioms, Assumptions & Hypotheses”, as well as the “Willful Ignorance, Error & Deceit” that come from unexamined “Axioms, Assumptions & Hypotheses”, and if the mental model behind the LLM makes valid statements, these valid statements amount to tautologies from its “Axioms, Assumptions &Hypotheses”. Will the wisdom-of-the-crowd give way to the wisdom of what’s in the trainer’s “Box”? Do you know what’s in your “Box”, and will it lead you astray?
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”CTRI by Francois Gadenne” writes a business book in three volumes, published serially on Substack for public peer-review. The book connects the dots of life-enhancing practices for the next generation, free of controlling algorithms, based on the lifetime experience of a retirement age entrepreneur, & continuously updated with insights from reading Wealth, Health, & Statistics research papers on behalf of large companies as the co-founder of CTRI.