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You can’t make this up: Dafna Yoran is the Manhattan prosecutor currently throwing the book at Daniel Penny.
In 2019, she gave a reduced sentence to a black man who murdered an asian college professor as he was withdrawing cash from an ATM.
She said that it was under the guise of... See more
Bill Murphy
@billmurphy
According to Rothbard, complete gridlock is the best one can hope for in Washington. A paralyzed government was fairly close to his anarchist ideal. In this vein, political insanity is not a bug; it’s a feature,
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
Because the choice is mine, I prefer, insofar as it is possible, and it is not always or even usually possible, not to conduct business with companies that produce products or enable activities which harm young people and contribute to the erosion of individual and civic virtue. The addictive and corrosive effects of pornography and the associated... See more
Why I’m Increasingly Moving Away from OpenAI Toward Anthropic
Technology has always been a double edged sword, bringing us longer and healthier life spans, freedom from physical and mental drudgery, and many new creative possibilities on the one hand, while introducing new and salient dangers on the other. However, the means and knowledge will soon exist in a routine college bioengineering lab (and already... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
At the core of the most extreme dangers from AI is the stark fact that there is no particular reason that AI should share our view of ethics and morality.
Ethan Mollick • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Until today, I was 50/50.
I saw Matt/Automattic doing bad things. I saw WP Engine doing bad things.
Matt just nuked his argument against WPE taking the Stripe fees by taking over ACF in the repo.
Matt is now king bad guy.
He needs to... See more
Jeremy Koeringx.com"Can irrational actors ever really be deterred?"
A profound question by @jordanschnyc in a recent post on Taiwan.
Made me think of the Hamas terrorists. They cannot be deterred. Israel's only option is to destroy them.
John Mihaljevicx.com