Stepping Into the End of the Year
Dec. 23rd, 2022 01:16 pmI celebrated Hanukkah at home for the first time in my adult life this week, since Erica (ever interested in any holiday she can get her hands on) was real insistent.
Heading off to visit the in-laws for Christmas break this weekend. Erica had a half-day yesterday, so I got a little time to myself. Wrote a post on ChatGPT and AI safety for my essay blog. (I also got the syndicated feed for that (![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png)
complexmeme_feed) updated so that's working again, it had been broken by the site migration.)
Last evening, went out with Julie to see a production of Life of Pi at ART. First time I've been to a play for quite a number of years. Was a great adaptation, the staging was amazing, really great acting and in-plain-sight puppetry and several dramatic uses of practical effects that were really emotionally striking. Magical.
Julie is looking after Erica today, so I'll try to get a jump on tidying and packing. I also got a long-overdue haircut.
Also, still following the Elon Musk / Twitter / Tesla saga, which continues to be absolutely insane. Tesla stock is down 30% in that last month, 65% in the last year. With plenty of room to go: its P/E still runs way ahead of other companies in its industry, whether you construe that as automotive or tech. Using something so optimistically priced as collateral on a leveraged buyout has its hazards, and acting like a maniac immediately after seems unwise. This thread (via![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
solarbird) describing an investor call is absolutely insane.
Looking forward to break. Hopefully travel will not be too impacted by the crazy weather.
Heading off to visit the in-laws for Christmas break this weekend. Erica had a half-day yesterday, so I got a little time to myself. Wrote a post on ChatGPT and AI safety for my essay blog. (I also got the syndicated feed for that (
complexmeme_feed) updated so that's working again, it had been broken by the site migration.)Last evening, went out with Julie to see a production of Life of Pi at ART. First time I've been to a play for quite a number of years. Was a great adaptation, the staging was amazing, really great acting and in-plain-sight puppetry and several dramatic uses of practical effects that were really emotionally striking. Magical.
Julie is looking after Erica today, so I'll try to get a jump on tidying and packing. I also got a long-overdue haircut.
Also, still following the Elon Musk / Twitter / Tesla saga, which continues to be absolutely insane. Tesla stock is down 30% in that last month, 65% in the last year. With plenty of room to go: its P/E still runs way ahead of other companies in its industry, whether you construe that as automotive or tech. Using something so optimistically priced as collateral on a leveraged buyout has its hazards, and acting like a maniac immediately after seems unwise. This thread (via
solarbird) describing an investor call is absolutely insane.Looking forward to break. Hopefully travel will not be too impacted by the crazy weather.
