Airplane WiFi approximates the consumer surplus of the internet. $8 for a janky connection for a few hours, and people pay.

A likely source of a malevolent AI would be a lab leak from an AI safety researcher.

Watering down grades and standardized tests creates a whole generation of “upper midwits” that don’t realize they aren’t geniuses.

Fun but terrible idea: ETF that tracks retail asset allocation.

Could chimps with sufficiently advanced AI colonize Mars?

Zeno’s automation paradox: if you keep automating half the work, can you ever automate all the work?

A tweet interesting enough to that you put your phone down is downsampled by the algorithm by design.

This is not a factory in a box. Its more like a 3D printer for electronics. Could be useful for prototyping and one-off circuit boards.

Entirely possible that we get the opposite of misaligned AI: overly aligned AI.

With the uptick in CS unemployment, hopefully we’ll start getting rid of all the nontechnical PMs.

China will drop the Great Firewall for some users, but only in southern Hainan scmp.com/tech/policy/ar…

Turns out that being the most successful people on the planet doesn’t require learning impulse control, and I’m very mad on behalf of my school-age self.

The areas where emotions have economic value might be the last bastion of human labor. The drive to succeed, the fear of failure. Human connection for trust building and marketing.

Being used well by AI is also a skill. (Lest you think this an entirely ironic post, see content creators as an example that already exists. You can also already prompt LLMs to used you well.)

Lawyers (and to some extent doctors) are the real estate agents of the future. Gate keepers whose primary value is hidden knowledge of how the game is played.

Steve jobs is rolling in his grave over all the people projecting their own taste on him.

New religion that defines the good as dopamine release from things that are intrinsically good (meaningful work, love, family, learning). Algorithmic feeds and short form videos as mortal sins.

Actually, the only banger show about tech is How It’s Made

You’ll get what you need when you’re willing to walk away if you don’t get it.