Paperclip Maximizers, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Stupidity
Existential risk from AISome believe an existential risk accompanies the development or emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Quantifying the probability of this risk is a hard problem, to say nothing of ...
The End of Our Dog Era
"That's the end of our Joplin era," my wife said to my oldest daughter.We were still crying and wiping our tears.I didn't say it out loud, but I thought "That was the ...
Overcoming our “bossypants” bias
This is the fifth post in a series of posts inspired by reading Sheryl Sandberg's book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. We've previously looked at some of Sandberg's evidence That women are underrepresented ...
Other thoughts from Lean In
My previous posts in this series have touched on the core issues that Sheryl Sandberg addresses in her book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. If you're interested in these ...
What’s the cause of the problem part two
This is the fourth post in a series of posts inspired by reading Sheryl Sandberg's book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. Previously we discussed lack of confidence as one of the causes ...
What’s the Cause of the Problem?
This is the third post in a series of posts inspired by reading Sheryl Sandberg's book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. In the previous post, I shared some of the statistics ...
The Problem is the People, but Which People?
In my second job out of college, my boss' boss would often say, "Wherever you go there's always a problem and the problem is always the people." I wondered to myself, "Yeah, ...
Lean In for Yourself
Small family farming is a labor intensive way to go broke. When I was young I spent some weeks each summer with my grandparents. As farmers and cattle ranchers, my grandparents scratched out ...
RIP Grant W. Dotson — A dear friend
It's been a rough day. About 18 months ago a friend of mine from high school posted a Go FundMe on Facebook for a mutual friend who was battling cancer. This mutual friend ...
Hunting injected processes by the modules they keep
A relatively recent post showed how Metasploit's Meterpreter module made some noise on endpoints when the migrate command was used to move the agent code into a legitimate process, spoolsv.exe in our ...
