Hacker News with Generative AI: Strategy

Generative AI Is Still Just a Prediction Machine (hbr.org)
Artificial intelligence tools can now write, code, draw, summarize, and brainstorm. The proliferation of generative AI tools poses serious questions for managers, such as: What tasks can be done by AI, what will humans still need to do, and what are the sustainable sources of competitive advantage as AI continues to improve? To understand the strategic implications of these new capabilities, managers need a framework for when AI will be helpful and when it might fail.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Management, Strategy

3 points by naves 15 hours ago | 0 comments

The Early Christian Strategy (astralcodexten.com)
In 1980, game theorist Robert Axelrod ran a famous Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournament.

History, Strategy, Game Theory

16 points by feross 6 days ago | 8 comments

MOATs Aren't Useful (rohan.ga)
What I mean is that, conceptually, “MOATs” are not a useful abstraction. There is a saying that “all models are wrong, but some are useful” and I am saying that, as a model, MOATs are not useful. I think that asking a founder “what their MOAT is” will not offer useful information about their project.

Business, Startups, Strategy

6 points by ocean_moist 15 days ago | 4 comments

Crokinole (pudding.cool)
Technically speaking, they each flicked a 3.2cm disc 30cm across a board into a 3.5cm hole (just 9% wider than the disc itself) eight times in a row. In game terms, they made eight open 20s each.

Games, Sports, Strategy

621 points by Tomte 35 days ago | 166 comments

The Greatest Checkmate Ever Given (youtube.com)

Chess, Youtube, Strategy

9 points by mellosouls 38 days ago | 1 comments

How to Beat Online Poker: Russian Group Won Big with AI (bloomberg.com)

Online Poker, AI, Russia, Gambling, Strategy

12 points by alexey-salmin 61 days ago | 1 comments

Starbucks' new CEO wants to make Starbucks a coffee shop again (cnn.com)

Starbucks, Coffee, Business, CEO, Strategy

12 points by RyeCombinator 71 days ago | 9 comments

The CIA's 8 steps to wreck organizations (youtube.com)

Intelligence, Organizations, Management, Strategy, CIA

11 points by TotalCrackpot 73 days ago | 0 comments

A game theory behind the dark forest strategy? (wikipedia.org)

Game Theory, Strategy, Science Fiction

9 points by dgregd 74 days ago | 13 comments

AMD deprioritizing flagship gaming GPUs: Jack Hyunh on New Strategy vs. Nvidia (tomshardware.com)
AMD's plans for high-end GPUs with its upcoming Radeon RX 8000-series have been cast into doubt by several hardware leakers who assert that AMD has canceled its upper-tier RX 8000 cards. However, the company hasn't officially commented on the matter before.

AMD, GPUs, Hardware, Gaming, Strategy

22 points by pella 74 days ago | 16 comments

The expected value of the game is positive regardless of Ballmer’s strategy (gukov.dev)
A few days ago John Graham-Cumming posted about “Steve Ballmer’s incorrect binary search interview question” which drew a lot of attention on Hacker News.

Game Theory, Strategy, Mathematics

193 points by gukoff 76 days ago | 160 comments

How to convert a concept into a managerial instrument of competitive power (hbr.org)

Management, Strategy, Business, Competitive Advantage

4 points by cloudguruab 77 days ago | 0 comments

Intel Honesty (stratechery.com)

Intel, Business, Analysis, Strategy

376 points by surprisetalk 78 days ago | 405 comments

Kobayashi Maru Management (2018) (randsinrepose.com)

Management, Strategy, Star Trek

3 points by mooreds 84 days ago | 0 comments

What Does It Mean to Be a Signal Competitor? (soatok.blog)