David Gross

May 4, 2024 | lesswrong.com | David Gross

Shannon Vallor is the first Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She is the author of Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting. She believes that we need to build and cultivate a new virtue ethics appropriate to our technological era.

Apr 15, 2024 | floortrendsmag.com | David Gross

While the floor covering industry has been largely focused on the immediate challenges of recruiting and retaining skilled labor, attending to the long view of the industry’s future and what we’ll do to attract the next generation of installers remains just as pressing. How will the industry engage this new generation? What will attract them to the trade? How will we balance their needs with maintaining the professional standards our industry has worked to establish?

Apr 10, 2024 | floortrendsmag.com | David Gross

While the floor covering industry has been largely focused on the immediate challenges of recruiting and retaining skilled labor, attending to the long view of the industry’s future and what we’ll do to attract the next generation of installers remains just as pressing. How will the industry engage this new generation? What will attract them to the trade? How will we balance their needs with maintaining the professional standards our industry has worked to establish?

Mar 4, 2024 | lesswrong.com | David Gross

This post examines the virtue related to awe. As with my other posts in this sequence, I’m less interested in breaking new ground and more in gathering and synthesizing whatever wisdom I could find on the subject. I wrote this not as an expert on the topic, but as someone who wants to learn more about it. I hope it will be helpful to people who want to know more about this virtue and how to nurture it. “The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious.

Jan 30, 2024 | bassmusicianmagazine.com | David Gross

Much like our original ODS amps were initially inspired by the legendary Dumble amps, the new Fuchs FBS-1 bass amps have found their inspiration from the iconic Walter Woods © bass amps, but with Andy’s own enhancements.