I'm an honest-to-God open migration guy, but I understand why people aren't. I do not understand the delight in a person weeping because they're being forced to leave or separated from a child, or any kind of joy taken in seeing someone upset to witness this sort of thing.

I'd ultimately be curious how generally applicable the analogous guardrails set up for Khanmigo by @khanacademy.org would be for these other uses. That would be the gold standard for me, if any AI company had the courage to pursue it.

Obviously there's a middle ground to be found, but the lack of guardrails enforcing such a middle ground leaves me loathe to participate in the first place, and makes me think less of people using gen AI in a way that abuses that lack of guardrails.

I think that's (at least partly) why I'm so viscerally averse to using gen AI in software engineering - it takes the artistry out of software engineering much the same way gen AI takes the artistry out of the "art" it generates.

*Take On Me plays in the distance*

Put otherwise: a world of countries behaving themselves, trading, and just more or less getting along should be the goal. In the long run, everyone wins in a world of boring, boring abundance.

Hegseth’s Pentagon “renaming” these bases after obscure veterans with the same names as the Confederates the bases were originally named for has all the subtlety of a school bully putting his hand in your face and yelling “I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you!”

The only throughline to me seems a desire to preserve an imaginary past. For a certain type of conservative, that's happy peasants living off the land locally. For a certain type of leftist, it's happy peasants living off the land that they can visit on a backpacking trip.