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Palo Alto is a (mostly) wealthy suburban town next to Stanford U. Without traffic it is 30-40 minutes from SF -- twice as long when traffic is bad. There's a train that is lame by …

The idea would be that you would replace the "A" on the ball with the character that is in the QWERTY's A position the Dvorak keyboard, etc.

This talk is about how generative large language models like ChatGPT are a new (since 2017) kind of AI, and they've turned out to develop surprising emergent capabilities like deve…

This video is essential viewing. I'm surprised neither of the mentions of it took off.

One precondition for sentience would be some kind of continuity. Does the AI operate separately from its tasks, or does it instantiate, take care of some request, and then end, as …

The reminds me of an incident that made me (kind of unfairly) boycott Bed Bath and Beyond for the last few years -- I lost my wallet and didn't have credit cards for a bit, and whe…

I think the reality is that a lot of people really die from an overdose of morphine at the end. Once you are in hospice, the advice is to give enough to make the person comfortable…

There's an old cliche that when you go from being an employee to being a contractor you trade the illusion of security for the illusion of freedom.

Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" has a fake AI "character" -- a book that appears to be AI but is really operated by low-paid humans in 3rd world countries (reminiscent of the M…

They weren't. The alt-right seeks to erase distinctions so all things mean whatever they want at the moment.