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It’s not that it’s an easy job, it’s that software is verifiable and iterable in a way that e.g. writing a legal brief is not
February 12, 2026 at 2:37 PM
It is, I hope it remains so.

Social skills are necessary to communicate with humans, and there may therapeutic applications for agents to do more, but it’s a gross artifact at best.

When it’s a bot from a trillion dollar company the purpose is even more obviously manipulation.
February 7, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Some of the necessary reforms here will be very bad for big tech.

Here’s the charming Joseph Gordon Levitt to say more!

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With The World On Fire, Why Talk About AI?
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January 26, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Corey Doctorow’s book lays out a strategy for fixing things. #bullshittification
January 15, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Not a lot of manipulation involved in pulling a trigger
January 9, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Butlers are barely useful except with ADLs, but I can’t imagine how you go between the two and what happens to the economy.

Maybe you get from ADLs to elder care, and since everyone needs that you can expand from there.
November 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Do you have one?

There’s a big gap for me between when get butlers that can do tedious, but easy, home labor, and machines that can do advanced labor to assist any artisan / trade worker / farmer

Once your get to the second, you’re sharing and copying brains and data (no DMCA 🤞), shared hardware.
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Jumping back in feet first!
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Yeah it’s bizarre that parts of the business world think of this as a new product or commodity.
October 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A mechanical engineering professor tells about teaching undergrads problem solving. He says if he shows the students on configuration of the robot they make that one.

If he shows the kids two configurations they build one of the two.

If he shows them 3 he starts getting novel configurations.
October 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It’s not just risky, it’s counter to big money interests. If scale is necessary they have a natural moat for a while.

DreamerV4 dropped last week and it uses a 2B model that could conceivably do some general robot labor (maybe).

It runs on one H100, gpt4 uses 1.8 trillion params and needs infra.
October 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Clear No, then compliment the idea or person (if you think it’s good), then explain that your are too busy.

People react negatively to squirreliness, but adults respect boundaries and honesty
August 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I don’t know any lawyers who are using the special law LLMs, but chatGPT is garbage at law according to lawyers.

They probably seems great to laymen around simple issues but it’s a risky area for them.
August 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
That sounds like a consciousness puppeteering a computer.
July 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
By LLM do you mean something like a transformer? Or just some future system that can generate language
July 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I don’t think he was murdered, but maybe he was allowed to kill himself based on the failed precautions and video surveillance malfunction.
July 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
It needs Kismet’s face
July 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Sounds like you’ve got a freeloading baby on your hands
July 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
He’s conflating the problems of corporate aggregation and monopoly with a potential LLM bubble, but yeah, give us right-to-repair!
June 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Everybody’s got the same damn inseam
June 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM