Generally when I choose to do something, I have the hope that it will turn out well. Although I’m aware that it might not and I’m prepared to deal with that possibility, if I knew with certainty from the start that what I was considering doing would not turn out well then I would not choose to do it.

According to gay people I’ve talked to who tried to adopt but ended up paying a surrogate, adopting a healthy baby is very difficult. Children available for adoption are generally older and/or have serious health problems.

Are we? I’m looking to buy a car and I think gas cars make the most sense even now, because the change in the price of gas seems like a relatively small part of the cost of car ownership. A one dollar increase in the cost of a gallon of gas works out to about $300 a year in extra costs for me. That’s not enough to tip the balance towards an electric car.

For reference, I’m comparing a Hyundai Elantra N to a Tesla Model 3 - the Hyundai costs as much as the base Tesla at about $36.5k, but to get similar performance you’d need the $42.5k premium Tesla, and that price difference pays for enough gas to go 40,000 miles.

Yeah, although I admit that I thought biotech was the most interesting and important thing I wanted to do back when I chose it over 20 years ago, but knowing what I do now, I wish I had gone into machine learning instead.

We’re going to end up in a situation where whatever is necessary to train AI is permitted, and the main question is whether that will be through (re)interpretation of existing law or the passage of a new law.

If you don’t want legal or medical advice from an AI, you can already simply not ask the AI for legal or medical advice. But I don’t want your paternalistic restrictions on what I may ask.

The content of the article does not match the title. It doesn’t actually talk specifically about the tech industry or claim that it is in particular difficulty.

Justice League (the cartoon series). A must-watch for any superhero fan.

Either way, there appears to be no doubt that Epstein is referring to killing Black people and potentially Black children.

I’m not sure why they’re thinking that this is a literal hunt, given that “snipe hunt” has a well-established definition (a prank where a gullible person is sent to find something that doesn’t exist) that doesn’t involve actually shooting anyone.

There’s nothing in this article about problems with AI specifically.

Online dating back when it was something normal people were embarrassed to do.

It’s amazing. I use it as part of my work as a software developer, I get good advice from it regarding my personal life, and I can talk to it about topics that interest me but don’t interest my friends. Everything is great right now but I’m genuinely worried about the near future, when it might be able to do the entirety of my job better than I can. At least I got this far - I wonder whether my friends’ kids who were born recently will live in a future where they’ll never be capable of contributing anything valuable.

Another good article about this.