Something I taught the boys on the way to school: one thing the story of the German concentration camps teaches us is how much potential for evil the… - Paul Graham

The scary thing about the speed at which AI is evolving is that it isn't yet mainly evolving itself. The current rate of progress is still driven mainly by improvements in hardware and in code written by human programmers.

In the US both the right and the left try to censor ideas they dislike. But their censorship takes place at opposite ends of the funnel: the right mainly wants to limit what can be taught to kids, while the left wants to limit what can be said at all.

looking at things from other people’s point of view is practically the secret of success.