Most classical engineering fields deal with probabilistic system components all of the time. In fact I'd go as far as to say that inability to deal with probabilistic components is disqualifying from many engineering endeavors. Process engineers for example have to account for human error rates. On a given production line with humans in a loop, the operators will sometimes screw up. Designing systems to...

Eddie Kim: On Wednesday, federal agents escalated their approach. The language and behavior was more aggressive and, in many cases, preemptive. Several protesters were thrown to the ground. Some people were pepper-sprayed without provocation. One of those people was me. ...

I was at a leadership group and people were telling me "We think that with AI we can replace all of our junior people in our company." I was like, "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. They're probably the least expensive employees you have, they're the most leaned into your AI tools, and how's that going to work when you go 10 years in the future and you have no one that has built up or learned...

Rambling about a little loop I find myself going through with Emacs vs Not Emacs

I don’t want to even think about anything, let alone overthink everything.

Simply put, my central worry is that many people will start to believe in the illusion of AIs as conscious entities so strongly that they’ll soon advocate for AI rights, model welfare and even AI citizenship. This development will be a dangerous turn in AI progress and deserves our immediate attention. We must build AI for people; not to be a digital...