The paperclip maximizers were never the AIs

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The LAX people mover fiasco is an extreme example of the problem of inadequate state capacity that plagues projects up and down the state. When an agency with no transit experience has to manage a complex project and outsources everything to consultants, things go wrong and delays are hard to avoid.

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Look, if they really wanted to roast our asses at least one of them would be wearing this Threadless shirt

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*With some major crypto attacks, "Black October" is closing at a cracking pace *I don't think I've ever seen a depiction of a "Singularity" that involved a whole lot of concentrated robbery *Normally, the riotous thieving is more of a prepper idea

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No one paid me to disagree with Jonathan Haidt. It was teenagers who taught me that he was wrong. But apparently, thanks to yet another f*cked up thing that Meta has done, any academic who critiques him is presumed to be a corporate shill. WTAF is going on?

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