OpenAI is trying to partially nationalize itself. I wrote about its potential motives, how a narrow partnership between Uncle Sam and OpenAI could go wrong -- and why the government should take a stake in *all* corporations instead. On the last point: vox.com/politics/491608/trum…

My son has watched exactly 2 Knicks games. The last 2. He is their biggest fan. Last night was "the best night of my life."

Anyone ever have dark thoughts when they're alone...?

The game was fun and all but back to reality... School tomorrow 😒😩

I’ve been a Knicks fan for 14 long days, so tonight was very special for me personally

Unbelievable that the Washington Post opinion page would print something this straightforwardly false

Mostly just wanting to mess around with my AI microdata set up. Adjusting for age composition and marriage rates wipes it out. Though marriage itself could perhaps be smartphone-related.

Bzzzt wrong. There will be no video at 11

I think it is pretty condescending to suggest that anyone who describes this as a "crisis" has not thought carefully about it. In my view, one can very reasonably look at the projection highlighted here and conclude that Thailand is entering "an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which a decisive change is impending." And many scholars who've devoted their lives to thinking about this issue would agree. Totally fair to argue that we are wrong! But it is not fair to claim, without evidence, that people who disagree with your preferred nomenclature have put no thought into their word choices

As a feminist worried about declining birth rates it is straightforwardly positive that teenagers and very young adults are not having largely unwanted/unprepared pregnancies. Making it easier for people to match/have kids in their mid-to-late twenties and thirties as well as improving reproductive technology to assist in having kids in your thirties and forties and even fifties should be the goal!

And ironically humanity will spend the next few decades as this unfolds arguing about migration. In reality, the country that can overcome its baser instincts and attract and welcome younger immigrants will be at a major advantage. US is well poised to win on that front, given our immigrant-friendly tradition, but we still might lose for obvious reasons.

A collapse in the global population looks increasingly inevitable. Fertility rates have fallen below replacement in more than 66% of nations. No policy intervention has substantially reversed this trend. And technological progress seems to be accelerating it. A smaller, weirder world is on its way vox.com/politics/491167/ai-s…

Some in the tech industry believe that AI will soon render sex obsolete imo, sex has staying power. Yet people are *already* substituting digital technology for real-world intimacy in myriad ways. AI-infused sex tech could accelerate that trend vox.com/politics/491167/ai-s…

Must-read from @EricLevitz on the "smartphone theory" of post-2010 birth rate collapse. If it's true, the AI age is very likely to accelerate it. And that's before the sexbots show up. vox.com/politics/491167/ai-s…

Smartphones appear to have accelerated the global fertility crisis -- by making social isolation and singledom more comfortable and entertaining. Chatbots could nudge humanity even further in this direction. Today, digital technology doesn't just provide loners with perpetual stimulation but also, forms of emotional support that previously required real world relationships. Full article here (and for now, no paywall!): vox.com/politics/491167/ai-s…