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So are you taking this deal?

I forget if I've written up my college sumptuary law proposal, which is: banning schools from providing students with an on-campus standard of living higher than what the median graduate of that school can afford in their first year after finishing.

I need a “loitering” option on Waymo where I don’t need to go anywhere, I just want an air conditioned place to sit and get some work done for 20 min.

My wife recently bought this lockbox to put her phone in. Basically you set the timer for however long you want, the box locks, and you can't get the contents out unless you break the box. She has been using it in little blocks (3-4 hours) on weekdays but last night we decided to put both our phones in it for 24 hours. This isn't too outside the norm for us as we normally put our phones away for 24/25 hours Friday night - Saturday night for Shabbat but locking them away in this box was something different and it's interesting the effect it has. There is something about physical distance or locking it away. Something about the fact that you can't get to it. You set the timer and there is a countdown and then these little bars close and that's that. It's actually freeing. The fact of the impossibility of using it is liberating. I talk about this topic a lot - setting aside time away from the internet and technology - and I know it seems redundant or obvious sometimes, but I am not sure it is. I think, in no small way, the smartphone and our relationship with the smartphone is one of the great stories and challenges in our stage of modernity. How do we make personal choices which lead to greater humanity in our lives and at scale? How do we balance technology and physical reality in our lives? How do we live an intentional life in the digital age? How do we remain fully human in our era of technological saturation?

Everyone asks if Atlas can bring them a drink, but this robot can bring you the whole fridge. Using AI-driven behaviors, Atlas is doing hard work and coordinating its whole body to manage heavy objects, balancing complex contact points with accuracy and reliability.

The Living Wage for All Act would set the federal minimum wage to 2/3 of the median wage - which is what UK does, and I also describe in my book.

AI is not currently good enough to cause me to lose my job but i expect ive got maybe a year to figure out how to move up several abstraction layers some of which may not even exist yet this is going to get weird because idk how people starting careers will even begin

One person just made a Transformers-level VFX sequence on a single GPU.

My thoughts on “gamifying” FSD. Showing statistics is not gamifying. It’s showing a statistic. I won’t change my driving habits over it. And I’m certainly not gonna let my car hit a pothole or miss an exit over it. I can’t imagine anyone would. 🤷🏼‍♂️