by John Macdonald | May 18, 2023 | AI, The250
AI should be the CEO of the Effective Altruism movement. In fact, it’s inevitable. Which is kinda ironic because the Effective Altruists are also “helping to create the field of AI alignment research.” Effective... by John Macdonald | May 17, 2023 | AI, The250
Time is everything. Time is the one resource that we can never recover. A wish for one more year, one more day, one more minute. Regrets of missed opportunities, wasted time, and wrong place at the wrong time. Chronos is time as you and I experience it.... by John Macdonald | May 16, 2023 | AI, The250
AI should do your work chores. You know the Eisenhower Matrix? Urgent versus important, etc. A method like this helps us because we tend to put off the hard stuff. The human stuff. We use excuses of urgency or money or whatever else we can grab onto to... by John Macdonald | May 15, 2023 | AI, The250
Faster, cheaper, better. I’ve been on the front lines of outsourcing almost my entire career. I’ve hired, led, and worked with off-shore software teams and contracting firms for over 20 years. I help my current company work and scale better through... by John Macdonald | May 14, 2023 | AI, The250
AI doesn’t have a mother. Plenty of people don’t have, and never had, a mother in practice. But they did ultimately have a mother. That’s how human life works. What does AI have? Theorists, programmers, trainers, feedback providers, tweakers, and... by John Macdonald | May 13, 2023 | AI, The250
I sure would love to outsource my hard conversations to AI. I’m non-confrontational. My nature is to shy away and deflect. But I’m also adult enough to have them when needed. I’m currently in the middle of a couple of them, both professionally and...