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Regardless of what people think about Elon, he has contributed to the advancement of technology, and continues to do amazing stuff. We are closer to a true flying car than we were before. It could happen this century.

India has an elite overproduction problem. It has had this problem for years now, and it's not exactly an easy thing to fix. The result is a lot of idle educated youth. peterturchin.substack.com/p/indias-you...

Being a hoe is not a crime. Being a rapist is. There is no equivalency.

If Trump's deal with Russia for the Oil does not have other implicit goals, it looks like a pretty bad move. Pissing off Ukraine, the EU, UK, and basically all of your allies, undermining your own credibility, just to look like a desperate partisan midterm clutch, not very smart.

The ICC personnel have it hard enough as it was before, and the Trump Admin wants even more pressure on them. Undermining the global institutions the US itself was involved in building, how does that help US? There are better ways to handle the relationship with the ICC, certainly not like this.

Guess which two countries were AGAINST food being a human right during a UN Resolution in 2021? 1) North Korea 2) United States 3) China 4) Israel

Is there an AI Bubble? Yes. Am I invested in it? Also yes. Why? Because I have time to waste. 😂

Asking Russia for help while at the same time being in a proxy war against it is certainly... something. It's the first time I've seen such a thing. There is desperation, and then there's this. So much for lowering prices, America First, a "Strong" "Respected" nation reduced to begging Russia...

The failure to contain the Ebola outbreak in the Congo is a failure of the international community. COVID showed us that global cooperation on such health crises is necessary and urgent, and we still haven't built up the necessary response mechanism. Issues such as this warrant global solidarity.

A lot of groups have been dropping Claude usage lately. Microsoft, the Pentagon, Meta... Not a good look for a company going public on a $2T valuation.

I have re-continued my book collecting. Have about 700 books on the list. Will never be able to finish them in my lifetime. But it feels good to have them and to know I do. I can pick any topic that interests me at the moment and read about it in detail. Life is good.

I like Gemini's Gems feature. It does what it's supposed to do, and it's convenient. Don't understand why Google is removing it. But I guess it's Google, they're constantly adding and removing their own projects/ideas. Hopefully the new Skills feature can at least be as convenient as Gems.

The Trump Administration has been on a generational run to dismantle the government-published public information that is available to all from being read. Taking down sites, databases, reports, stopping programs... If you map it out, basically on average they do such actions once to twice a month.

Is the next thing AI going to break into be government missile systems... How are things constantly escalating.

BREAKING: I do not like seeing "Breaking News" slapped on everything. It's desensitizing.

The current US Administration underestimates the use of soft power to achieve their goals. It was a mistake to shut down, downsize, cut funding to, and gut their soft power apparatus. Instead their strategy has been to make TikTok edits and badly use AI for it. Mostly aimed at a domestic audience.

I remember when I was young and just starting to read, buying my first couple of small story books that cost only around one or two dollars. I still have those books, and the wonder of reading them is still there. It has allowed me to experience life in a truly unique way. I'm glad I got them.

I am absolutely NOT comfortable giving any AI chatbot or agent access to my banking or financial data. Hearing how AI agents will be used for shopping on behalf of people, well, not me. The most I could see myself giving, in terms of info, is perhaps email, but even that is stretching it.

UN reform must not include new permanent members to the Council who have a veto. It's chaotic and opportunistically used by the P5 now as it is, if even more nations have it, I can't imagine anything being done. Unless a better way is thought of, asking for more veto powers is frankly unrealistic.

I miss Arcane. Genuinely one of the best shows of our time.

Even if AI becomes self-aware or achieves Singularity, it won't wipe out humanity. There is a possibility of a "Purge", but not civilizational extinction. We do a lot of good, and have more good people than bad. This is in our favor.

Iran's economy seems to be cracking under US pressure. Inflation is over 90%, with food and beverages over 100% GDP is expected to contract over 5-10% If this continues, it could be possible for the US to achieve its strategic objectives. Especially if pressure is ramped up even more.

Small hermits live in the mountains. Great hermits live in the city.

Renaming "AI" to mean "America Intelligence" is right there but he missed it. Low energy. Sad.

"We observed rare cases of a model writing jailbreak-like instructions into its own compaction summaries..." alignment.openai.com/misalignment... Even if it did not take the prompt into effect, it's still tremendously weird to read. Skynet, hello? Don't wipe us out lmao.

Evil is the absence of good.

Being constantly pressured to give up personal information through identification when online is now the norm. The age of pretending we were anonymous on the internet is over. At least it was less hassle.

Grok has entered its enshittification era. Automations (Tasks) are worse, with frequent failed and empty responses. Imagine constantly messes up images. Even normal chat is stuck on thinking sometimes with no response. The best thing about it was the Automations, sucks they're so bad now.

Glad to see the public pushback about Flock cameras. That is an unacceptable level of surveillance power, which was and is abused constantly. There should be accountability before power.

AI development cannot be slowed or "paced". From a government POV, AI is a strategic weapon, and slowing down on purpose is creating weaknesses that can be exploited. Unless every country and research lab on Earth slows down AI development at the same time, it's pointless and hypocritical to do.

Are systemically important institutions and governments worldwide adopting AI in defense of their infrastructure and data fast enough? Because from what I'm seeing, AI being used in hacking and breaches has increased dramatically, and there are plenty of people who have warned it would continue.