philip1209

Cal Newport is notable not only as a professor of CS at Georgetown, but also as a founder of their Center for Digital Ethics.

I submitted one of his past articles and it was flag-killed. His post titles may seem incendiary, but he has the credentials to back it up and seems to identify concrete opportunities without leaning into doomerism.

I think you’ve gotten things confused.

Automative insurance has entered the “regulatory capture” stage, which is the highest form of actualization in capitalism.

Making cars a requirement for participating in society, across all socioeconomic levels, was a mistake. Now, lacking a car can put people into economic crisis.

We can correct this by investing in public transportation and getting rid of government-provided free parking.

I wish I could set up "Sign in with Apple" on a blog without paying $99/yr for a developer license.

I know there are lots of reasonable concerns about unauthorized access to private information.

This is somewhat solved problem in other areas, like banking and government. Not zero, but asymptotically low.

I think we need to criminalize misuse more clearly, preferably on a federal level. We need clear justifications for each use of data. And, we should require periodic audits by an independent third party - perhaps funded in the purchase contracts as a line item and held in reserve.

This doesn’t solve the problem of legal use - which could be contentious now or in the future. But, this technology isn’t going away and good legislation to control it makes sense.

Will this run on Cerebas? I'm really looking forward to that.

Same - I had some "AI-assisted coding interviews" where I had to bring my own AI tools, and found the speed of codex-spark to be important for making progress quickly (and not sitting there waiting on Opus to think for 10 minutes).

“Not a commodity”

Cash back is huge for people expensing rides. “Spend company money on us, and take your personal rides every once in a while for free.”

Same model as airlines.