Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

While the AI safety cultists are worried about the singularity, what we should be concerned about is how AI can be used to make existing problems worse (boldface mine): An explosive and newly partially unsealed court filing alleges that the US Department of Homeland Security built up dossiers on ICE observers—including their photos, license plate numbers, and other information—and stored them in a system called the Investigative Case Management database…

Victor Marx said it was to teach her a lesson, and that she was “fake crying” afterwards.

He’s not planning on leaving.

Dear LGM Readership: I was digging around in the history of the financial disclosures of Elon Musk’s companies, as one does, and it appears to my no doubt naive eyes that on net those companies have collectively lost tens of billions of dollars, and that to the extent this isn’t true it’s because operating losses […]