ICYMI Eliezer Yudkowsky, a self-taught artificial intelligence decision theorist (whatever that is) got the tech world in a tizzy by suggesting that a proposed six-month pause in AI development is not enough and we should shut it all down now or “literally everyone on Earth will die.” He sees this[…] Read On
Now that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and pretty much every other social media app has officially nuked Donald Trump, countless supporters of the soon-to-be former President are posting and tweeting about the injustice of it all, urging their followers to cancel whichever app they happen to be on. WTF. This is[…] Read On
Stupid is as stupid does. – Forrest Gump How can people be so stupid? You hear it all the time. Probably out of your own mouth. Certainly out of mine. But are folks really getting dumber? If you ask ten people if society is getting dumber, nine out of ten[…] Read On
The phone is ringing. We stopped answering it years ago. Now it just records robocalls and stuff. Why even have a home phone? Our property has a gate. The home phone controls the gate. My not-so-smart home guy has a plan to fix that — along with half a dozen[…] Read On
I hear that Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey is so chill about leadership that he doesn’t make decisions, engage in any sort of conflict or do much of anything, really. Apparently he just sits there, watches, listens, ponders, and occasionally belches out a riddle like a talking fortune cookie,[…] Read On
According to CNBC, we should all be bummed that Silicon Valley DJs, comedians, acrobats and event planners are losing gigs due to coronavirus. Here’s what I’m thinking. The Valley has been flush with cash for this ridiculously long bull market run and unprecedented private equity boom. Or bubble. You say[…] Read On
It goes without saying that technology has been an enormous boon to society. But for the past decade or so Silicon Valley’s unicorn culture has spawned a massively overhyped and stubbornly persistent private equity bubble. I doubt that’s news to any of you. But even though the public markets are[…] Read On