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His point is that while we're over here arguing over whether a particular AI is "really" doing certain things (e.g. knows what it's doing), it can still cause tremendous harm if it…

That would be great! Mind shooting me an email at mattan@meetophelia.com?

Thanks for the tip, would love to chat further if you want to shoot me an email at mattan@meetophelia.com

Wow. That's beautiful, thanks for sharing.

Wow this is great. No I hadn't seen this but I'll definitely be reaching out to him. Thanks!

Appreciate these thoughts talolard. I like the idea of partnering with local governments and non-profits, and would welcome any introductions or suggestions there. As you mentioned…

While there are some regulations (both state and federal) around what we can and can't say publicly, most of our obstacles so far have been the policies of sites like Facebook, Goo…

Facebook and Google both require LegitScript ( https://legitscript.com/ ) certification. We're in the process of going through that and we're told it may take several months.

Oof, where to begin. There are regulations around what states we're allowed to operate in, what kinds of clinicians are able to see patients, how we have to treat patient data, and…

We're primarily focused on medication-assisted treatment with Suboxone. Sorry to hear about your experience irscott, it's certainly not the right solution for everyone.

Fixed! Thanks for catching that Brian.

Yes! MAPS has conducted and collected some really great research around psychedelics and their use in the treatment of things like PTSD and addiction. Specifically, Ibogaine Therap…

Mattan here (co-founder of Ophelia). We're certainly considering any options that are scientifically backed and evidence-based. Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) is the standard …

As someone who teaches coding to beginners for a living (I founded One Month and I teach Python to business students at Columbia University), this language looks really intimidatin…

No, it's a way of dealing with the issue of deadlocked decisions between co-founders if equity is split evenly. Usually in the case of a deadlocked decision between co-founders, yo…

Digital – every button on the page says "Buy Digital Book Now"

I'm teaching a college course on Python in the Fall and wanted to present some data on the market penetration of Python 3 within the Python community. Here are some things I've dis…

Yeah, but also this is nothing new. In a recent Planet Money episode (#688: Brilliant vs. Boring), they talk about how when John Bogle first introduced the index mutual fund in 197…

> The only way to change culture is through law. Not true. What about education?