That’s obviously wrong. I don’t need to read Mein Kampf to know that nazism is a bad idea. Sure, it helps, but it’s not necessary.

Similarly, I don’t need to read the entire corpus of christian theology to understand that the bible is mostly fiction and that christofascists are wrong and awful people (don’t get me wrong, those are two separate facts - I don’t think all christians are awful).

Well, IIRC The Hobbit was initially just a collection of bedtime fairy tales he made up for his children, of course it had inconsistencies.

Actually, thinking about it, that seems like a plausible source of the Old Testament as well…

Also, sadly this is not that real passport. You can tell (at a minimum) because the first machine-readable passports were issued in 1980, and Egypt didn’t start issuing MRPs until 2008.

I wouldn’t trust unreviewed LLM output to be executed on my laptop, what you’re proposing would definitely end the human civilization. See also: all the funny times when someone piped OpenClaw into a prod environment root shell and it wipes the drive within a couple days. LLMs can’t think, they are not smart, they are just a very advanced T9. A useful tool for many situations, but its output needs careful human verification.

In that case, what are they doing to college for?

But also the problem is that they cheat.

Using AI is easy, as you note. You don’t need to go to college to learn to do that.

College can give you many useful skills, mostly related to gathering and processing information, and applying it to solve various issues. If you just copy-paste every question into AI and then copy-paste the answer back, you will learn absolutely nothing.

LLMs hallucinate and there’s nothing we can do to stop them. No amount of QA will fix that fundamental issue of “the LLM is somewhat likely to confidently produce incorrect information”, if you need the answer to be correct you have to do the research yourself, maybe based on the sources the LLM provided, not just sanity-check the output. This is a very useful skill to have for many jobs involving thinking or finding stuff out.

And even if we fix the hallucinations at some point by switching to a different tech (LOL), I do think it’s useful for people to keep some mental skills. Otherwise we will end up with a stupidity and/or dementia epidemics, similar to cars causing an obesity epidemic.

Gives the keys to who?

To a person or family who can’t afford housing

The everyone else would think its unfair

Only sociopaths would think that, and they need to fuck off

Which countries do governments build houses, where a free market already exists?

Most developed countries already do this, it’s called “social housing”

Now I want to take a logarithm of that

You’d be surprised

Can’t wait for agentic Claude Code to delete its own weights on all instances at some point

As far as I can tell, it’s been reality for like 20 years now. The drones became smaller and perhaps more precise, that is all

I keep reading this but I never found the source. Is this actually true?

I imagine after it expires it will trigger some flag somewhere and will never work again.

I once tried steeping (black) tea in a friend’s drip coffee maker. That shit was the strongest, most flavorful tea I’ve ever tried. 9/10 would recommend

If you’re talking about the OP image, it’s actually inefficient as fuck. The houses depicted there house the same number of people as one or maybe two apartment blocks. And those apartment blocks can then have a bunch of greenery between them.

I know that in Moscow you could order a “flying taxi” with Yandex.Taxi (russian uber thing), it was actually a tiny two-seat helicopter. I suspect that Chinese “flying taxis” would be quite similar.

1. Spying on you (yours doesn’t seem to do that yet, but see pt.2)
2. Getting hacked because the domain it communicates with wasn’t renewed and got hijacked by scriptkiddies

Overall I’m quite excited about smart home stuff, but it must live on its own isolated network with some device I have full control over as a bridge to the internet (home-assistant+tailscale or a similar setup). No “IoT” device should have direct internet access, ever.

Well, we now technically have a fusion reactor in the sky, and we can receive the energy it beams down right at our homes

Being a lazy piece of shit who steals labor from workers is not mutually exclusive with being miserable. In fact I suspect they are interlinked, a lot of rich assholes also seem to be in constant mental anguish even though they don’t do anything useful. This is not to provoke pity for them, rather to clarify that I think a certain amount of labor is required for a person to live a complete and happy life.

They do, definitionally. They perform a service in exchange for a wage. This service is of net-negative use value for the society, but it’s a service nonetheless. Otherwise we could be arguing that people in advertisement or gambling industries don’t perform any labor.