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s20e09: An End Of Year Opinion About AI Because Why Not; Good Enough Mitigation of Reasonably Foreseeable Harm

0.0 Context Setting

It’s been a minute. This is probably the third draft of an episode that I’ve tried to finish so maybe this one will stick. It has been hard to write, lately!

It’s December 29 in Portland, Oregon and it is getting cold. Also many things have happened in the world and it feels like things that suck have outweighed the things that don’t suck.

0.1 Some Personal News

Hey, did you know I do workshops and coaching now?

I could explain what they do, but I’ll let someone who’s recently finished the workshop go first and then I’ll come in:

Huh, that’s pretty good. I would totally try to persuade my company to pay for me to take that workshop. I will go and read about that workshop series right now.

That’s for groups of people, though. A bunch of people wanted to know whether they could do it as individuals, and guess what: you can! I’m doing coaching based on the workshop