Matt Collie

If Nintendo's NES Super Mario Bros was made with Unreal Engine

David Friedberg: "I think that AI may actually break education." "I think the internet was the first leg on the stool to break higher education." "The internet democratized access to information and knowledge." "You can watch MIT graduate courses. That's an incredible transition that's happened for humanity, for society, for the world." "AI is the next leg of the stool to break." "And I think that AI may actually break education." "It may break higher education, and then eventually it may make its way all the way down to childhood in terms of rethinking from first principles, how do we educate?" "And we could see kids in Africa and kids in South Asia getting the equivalent of a Harvard graduate school degree at a cost of zero through personalized tutoring enabled through AI, and the ubiquitous access to knowledge and information." "So that core function of the university, I think, is broken." "And they're now starting to reconcile what that actually means for the long-term viability of all of these higher educational institutions in the United States."

Why shouldn't grocery stores be nationalized? The margins are low but the volume makes up for it to where Kroger - which has 410,000 employees (with a median wage of $14.50 per hour) - made $8,500,000,000 Net Income from 2020-2023. That's big business. That's $8.5B in discounts low income families could have INSTEAD of SNAP/EBT. The avg. person receives $2,000 in SNAP benefits a year. Krogers profit could pay for 1 Million people's SNAP benefits for a whole year. In other words, all major grocer profits = about half our SNAP benefits per year. We're already halfway to government grocery stores - we just let people get rich off them instead of healthy.

Cognitive scientist Elan Barenholtz says memory isn't retrieval. It's generation. When you remember something, you're not accessing a stored file. You're prompting your mind, like an AI model, to synthesize a response. There is no image of your mother. He's exploring how we might improve our own prompt design, because “memories, in some ways, aren't real.”