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When crypto rage was at its peak and people had done math to figure out precisely the energy impact it had, people were up in arms about how much it used. I tried to point out that…

It is dangerous to admire or despise anyone for who they are; it's ok to say someone did something good or bad.

This is poorly written with an unclear outcome. This starts as talking about how to make 1:1s more productive. It ends with, I must presume though it is unclear, losing a lease wit…

We've been talking about taste for a year now as it relates to AI, so I'm going to counterpoint it: if competitors can reproduce your features, UX, and visual decisions within days…

I think there’s a lot to that. Hollywood is very relationship driven.

Arguably everyone was. Certainly no one was doing it for the money. I suspect there is a myth among most people that executives -- especially Hollywood ones -- didn't get to that p…

Tangential to this, I worked in Hollywood for a while. The studio I worked at had a gaggle of unpaid interns. There was a mix of normal kids and the sons/daughters of prominent Hol…

I am, mostly, aligned with the author here, though I don't think that talking to AI about how to not get caught for killing your wife is really going all the way in. Going all the …

Especially when you have a passionate community willing to work for free to preserve things, am I right?

I had shoulder pain about ten years ago. Had an MRI. Found evidence of a tear. Was told I would need surgery and referred to a sports medicine doctor. He looked at my MRI and said …

The rhetoric around AI has been insane for years now. AI will kill us all. AI will take all our jobs. SaaS is dead. AI is too dangerous to even release. It's really no surprise at …

I've never heard of the Doorman Fallacy before. I like it. That said, not everything changes because some businessman wants to cut costs. Splitting bills has always been a pain, an…

If you think any attempt at a solve goes immediately to 11, sure, but I hope you believe in nuance or else we’re all lost.

That sounds like a great idea, but I think we should also try to solve human trafficking online.

I think the lie is to look at the problems we have that the internet has enabled and say "things are ok as they are don't try to do anything to solve it."

I'm pretty sure this is a "pick your poison" problem. We as a society are damned no matter what we do or do not do. For my part, we need to do something, because things are not fin…

This takes me back. In the 90s there wasn't exactly a lot of web app programming going on, and it was hard to find a web host willing to let you run scripts through CGI. This was m…

I wonder how much of the knee-jerk cynicism comes down to it being Midjourney doing this in a way where it feels like "practicing medicine without a license." The irony is I believ…

I used the roundabout the game is modeled after the other day. This is at the freeway exit used to get to the Costco AND downtown in Kirkland. I've seen pileups here for no reason.…

I was responsible for overseeing a Sierra AI implementation to replace our tier 1 support bot, which was not AI but a basic heuristic bot. Containment from the bot alone shot up pa…

I wouldn't say so. Once upon a time, a PlayStation 2 was too powerful to export: https://www.pcmag.com/news/20-years-later-how-concerns-about... ChatGPT 2 was once too powerful to …

This is a new form of Gell-Mann Amnesia: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect

I tend to agree. My first reaction to this post was to check the date, because I would have assumed this had been published around 2014. Google's moral compass was gone long before…

I'll give my own interpretation, which is different from the parent though maybe we arrive at the same place. Blindsight dismantles a lot of noble myths about what it means to be h…