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AI And Morality

Under U.S. law, a corporation is considered a legal person, but it has no inherent moral obligations. So why do we expect the artificial intelligence (AI) products created by corporations to behave morally?

Societal Shift With AI

A major societal shift in the past few decades is that most primary research in artificial intelligence (AI) is now happening within corporations, rather than in academia or through government-funded programs. Details here.  

Barry Diller

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Yesterday, I finished reading Barry Diller's autobiography - Who Knew Despite all the internal struggles and paramount success, Barry managed to carry his humility, integrity, and curiosity with him throughout his life. It is remarkable.  

Life And Theatre

Life is a theatre — we all see the same screen, but each of us is watching a different movie.

Silver Pill

Whenever you think that some situation or some person is ruining your life, it is actually everyone and everything except you, ruining your life. Feeling like a victim is a perfectly accountability-free way to go through life. If you just take this attitude that however bad it is in any way, it is always someone else's fault and you just complain to everyone as best as you can - the so called silver prescription. It never works.  Inspired by Charlie Munger's iron pill .