Billionaire food delivery app CEO wants you to pay for the privilege of working with him

This church has an AI Jesus for confessions: ‘It gave me so much advice’

AI can now create a replica of your personality. A two-hour interview is enough to accurately capture your values and preferences, according to new research from Stanford and Google DeepMind

The independent-label share of new-music promotion rose from 38 percent in late 2017 to 55 percent in early 2020, which helps to explain the reported decline in the share of Spotify royalty payments to major-label suppliers over the same period.

Faith in connecting Central Bank Digital Currencies drops sharply, Central banks unconvinced by stablecoins Related: The list of people not yet sold on the idea of central bank digital currencies continues to grow. […] One of the main motivations for CBDCs is heading off the risk that a tech giant like Alibaba, Google or Meta becomes dominant in payments. Tokenisation has downsides, however, such as surrendering monetary autonomy by letting foreigners hoard treasury tokens. The proposed solution is to create multi-currency CBDC exchanges for licensed dealers to trade among themselves. But it’s already gone VHS vs Betamax. [Financial Times]

Did you know a murder mystery party game was widely published and played from the 1930s to the 1980s?

How Typing Transformed Nietzsche’s Consciousness [video and photos of the Hansen Writing Ball, Nietzsche’s typewriter]

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