10 Thoughts: Please Stop Marketing Cigars to Children

10 Thoughts: Please Stop Marketing Cigars to Children

Over the weekend, Jas Sum Kral sent out a press release announcing a new line of flavored cigars sold under the “Munchies” name with the first flavor being Rocky Road and images of chocolate ice cream with marshmallows on the packaging.

It takes a lot for me to have a visceral reaction to a press release announcing a cigar, but this was one of the few moments over the last decade where that happened. It upset me that we at halfwheel were being asked to participate in promoting a product that is almost certainly going to be destructive towards the

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Thoughts of its very own: Will “common AI” be like an alien invasion?

Thoughts of its very own: Will “common AI” be like an alien invasion?

An alien species is headed toward earth. Lots of gurus forecast it will get in this article inside of 20 many years, while some others propose it might get a very little for a longer period. Either way, there is minor doubt it will get there just before this century is out and we individuals have no rationale to believe that it will be pleasant.     

Even though I just can’t say particularly what it will look like, I am self-confident it will be as opposed to us in almost every single way, from its physiology and morphology to its psychology

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