Today, I'm teaching a workshop on Equal Employment Opportunity. It has long been one of my most popular classes, possibly due to a mixture of fast-paced case examples, humor, and low expectations.
I've built an entire career on the last item.
Bear with me. I'll be back soon.
"I haven't read a book in forty years."
"We never watch black-and-white movies."
"Who was Spencer Tracy?"
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A quiet pleasure takes place in Arizona when we hear that the rest of the nation is changing its clocks.
The Sovereign Professional has an important reminder from Steve Pressfield.
My older brother could have used that approach the other day as heavy rain caused floods in Central Arizona.
His pastures were filled, the cattle were out in the water, and all of his neighbors left for higher ground.
But he stayed and outlasted the storm.
The most fundamental fact about current AIs is that they are grown, not crafted. It is not like how other software gets made - indeed it is closer to how a human gets made, at least in some important ways. Namely, engineers understand the process that results in an AI, but do not much understand what goes on inside the AI minds they manage to create.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
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