Why would you have less moral obligation to help people you'll never see? If that were the rule, you could make yourself morally perfect by staying i… - Paul Graham

One of the most interesting (and also frightening) things about AI is how difficult it is to predict what will happen. My kids ask me what's going to happen, and all I can say is that there will be huge changes, and I can't predict what they'll be.

The unusual thing about Nintendo is that they're good at both hardware and stories. It's very rare for a company to be good at two such different things, but powerful if you can pull it off.

Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.