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I have not been myself, but there is an exhibition currently at The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University called "Day Jobs": https://museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/day-jobs

Shouldn’t individuals and companies also have a set of morals?

What is antisemitic about suggesting that there should be conversation about how AI is used in warfare?

He claimed in 2002, after the book was published, to have found additional evidence that IBM established a Polish subsidiary after Germany invaded Poland to sell machines to the Na…

Highly recommend listening to this HBR podcast about the same topic. [1] TJ Watson (of IBM) is quoted as saying: “I’m an internationalist. I cooperate with all forms of government,…

It has been reported Israel is using AI to choose bombing targets. How is that not intellectually interesting or relevant to a forum about technology? https://www.972mag.com/lavend…

I find the use of "this is a business" logic to dissuade political discussion about a company's own business practices to be extremely troubling. Yes, there can be a discussion abo…

I thought this was relevant given recent stories about AI being used to identify military targets. The author claims that IBM established a subsidiary in Poland named "Watson Busin…

>bulldozed the forests for 100km in every direction, covered the area in housing Luckily we invented the elevator so we don't have to bulldoze forests to build more housing if we d…

What are peoples concerns here? 3 companies owning 11% of the single family homes available for rent in a metro area doesn't seem like a massive concentration of ownership. Some pe…

Many people are reading this stat to say that NYC is dying because of post-covid crime or some other stat. I really think this is a misreading of the situation. I think it is far l…

I don’t have a strong opinion on the events of the past several days. But a lot of the behavior I’ve seen on twitter from Open AI employees, some led by Sam, feels very cult like: …

Relatedly, University of Chicago has a popular survey where they ask Economists their views on policy proposals (along with their confidence in their answers), and their most recen…

Why is providing rental houses bad? Should people who don't want to or cannot afford to purchase a house not have access to single family houses?

Seems similar to what Venkatesh Rao has written about "The Clueless" in his "The Gervais Principle" article. It is a really great read: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-ge…

> looked at census data on the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas and found there are 5.47 million vacant housing units, with an average vacancy rate of 7.22 percent. This feel…

Allowing SROs, which have been banned in most cities.

It seems like many companies have recently become more willing to take actions that I view as extremely trust breaking: - Forcing employees who were hired as remote employees to re…

I also believe they will increase congestion in cities since when occupants switch from drivers to riders, they are less affected by the costs of road congestion (congested roads m…

I've seen both versions of these. A good TPM is extremely valuable though, especially for work that is highly reliant on coordinating other teams. The bad version was a net negativ…

Citation here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/gettingstarted-...

paulg has now been banned from twitter (presumably for noting that he was making a mastadon account) https://twitter.com/paulg