> He doesn't care, and neither do I. It is whether comments are raised to HR, management, or for personal lawsuits. This is potentially career ending

Obviously his first priority is his own career. How can you expect it to be any other way? Get real.

Engaging in gender discrimination is probably not the best way to avoid accusations of gender discrimination affecting one's career.

Going for drinks after work with your male colleagues, but not the women, is most likely a net positive for your career. Very rarely is anybody fired for such an offense as not hanging out with women after work, but building a closer relationship with the other men you work with will pay dividends.

Maybe, but I don't see why that's my problem. Society has created a system by which my risk increases exponentially when I engage in friendly conversation with women. The rational response is to reduce exposure to that risk.

> Not to mention the risk of getting hit by the banhammer if detected

Or probably CFAA, it seems inevitable to me that these organizations will use state violence to enforce their monopolies.

Having studied both CS and music, IMO the skill threshold where you can get paid to code is a lot lower than where you can get paid to music (unless you get very, very lucky and get paid to music because of celebrity rather than skill).

I second that. The time it took me from when I started to learn programming to getting paid for a project was just a little over year, and three years to steady pay (i.e. employment).

In contrast, I've been making music for over ten years of my life and have gotten paid a handful of times.

lol I got paid to code when I had zero fucking idea what I was doing after compleating half a 3 month online part time bootcamp. It took me several years to get paid to do stand up and even then it was $150 here or $20 there. I was able to pay my entire rent exactly once from comedy.

It's hard to make money being an artist.

> the only (Constitutional) reason to jail someone before trial is to make sure they show up

Well cynicism is definitely called for wrt bail, because it's regularly used for a very different purpose. It's normal for people accused of crimes to have to wait over a year for their trial in this country, and the courts often intentionally set bail so high that the accused can't possibly afford it. They are forced to choose between sitting in jail that whole time while their life evaporates, or they can plea guilty to a crime they may or may not have committed; the actual punishment is often less severe than being found innocent at trial. The prosecution can repeatedly push back the trial to keep the pressure on. Since healthcare access is almost always tied to employment, people plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit every day in this country so that their kids don't lose their access to healthcare. Just the sort of systemic, everyday corruption that we're supposed to pretend can't happen here.

I've used this project, really appreciate the ambition and quality.

Fwiw I've usually seen "fake it till you make it" in 2 contexts: 1. Disciplines in which skill development requires overreaching beyond one's current skill level eg musical improvisation 2. In reference to confidence eg many software developers experience imposter syndrome and have to pretend to be more confident than they actually are in order to be taken seriously, even if they are the most skilled in the room

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this- they were one of the first states to legalize mj. I think this very quickly drove a huge influx of younger, more open-minded people and a lot of cultural change around the metro areas, especially Denver and Boulder.

The dynamics being discussed existed long before that. In any case, I'm pretty sure that very few people moved to Colorado specifically because of mj legalization as opposed to the other forces that made mj legalization possible there.

I think tree maintenance is a great example of work that we should be automating because it's really dangerous and machines can do higher quality work than a human. The "tipping point" of when it will be cheaper to buy a machine vs hire a skilled laborer is unknown, but I'd be surprised if anything more than the most rote codemonkey programming was automated before this sweet spot of dangerous, skilled labor.

During the 19th century there was an attempt to establish a silk industry in New England. The industry failed, but the White Mulberry (morus alba), imported to serve as the food source for the silkworms, is thriving in North America. It's invasive in many areas and has displaced the native mulberry, morus rubra.

Worth calling out use by government. AI law enforcement is terrifying yet probably a long way off. But I don't think AI weapon systems are very far off.

I'm also concerned about population-level manipulation/thought control. Forget the targeted political ads we've seen over the past ~decade, this will be able to dynamically adapt to each target like a really good salesperson. On the macro level humans are clearly vulnerable to these tactics.

Regarding mind control, yeah, that. Cambridge Analytica + tailored deepfakes scares the hell out of me. Imagine finding the most unstable individuals and deepfaking a video of all of their friends commanding them to buy coke. Or vote. Or kill.