Elon Musk and Tesla: A Business Parable for Our Times
Everybody is Fallible, Lessons Can be Learned
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Future
A collection of 95 issues
Q-Day: Quantum Isn’t the Real Problem
Don't Blame the Technology for Its Misuse
AI Voice Fraud: We’re Advised to Take Precautions
Like It or Not, It's Coming
Dignity in the Time of the Toads
In what follows, I’m going to use parable to make my point because I want to focus on principle rather than individual personalities. Okay, with that brief preface out of the way, let’s begin.
What is obsequiousness good for? It doesn’t seem to have much utility. In
Why AI Scenarios Are More Important than Predictions
Love in the Age of the AI Tech-Bro Gigolo
Each day brings a new jolt, not from our planet’s shifting tectonic plates but from the disorientating sensation of becoming dislodged from what we previously perceived as objective reality.
Whenever I see anybody today proclaiming an unerring foreknowledge of what the future holds, I cannot resist a derisive snort.
As Planned, Nvidia’s GTC Offered No Surprises
When it Comes to AI, Clear-Eyed Pragmatism Beats Slaphappy Optimism
After my return from vacation, I had a lot on my plate these last few days. The preceding sentence is my way of apologizing for not providing a post earlier this week.
Still, I’ll attempt to make amends, offering this post today and another tomorrow (on Nvidia GTC . . . for
Returning From Travel: Back Down to Earth
I have been away for more than a week on a vacation in Europe. I’m back home now, but, as I reintegrate into my mundane existence, I’m weighed down by introspection.
Travel often marks a break from stultifying routine, providing an opportunity for both a respite and a
Forget the Asteroid in 2032 — Worry About the Here and Now
I am not among the people concerned about an asteroid, charmingly named 2024 YR4, that is reportedly hurtling through space on a collision course for Earth. Astronomers and physicists estimate that the space rock, which measures from 130 to 300 feet (a wide variance), has about a 1.5% probability