Bookmark this for later and let's see if I'm right about where AI is headed. For better or worse, by 2040: ✅ Learning will be replaced by simply doing: Traditional education will shift to teaching AI direction and evaluation rather than content mastery. You'll use AI to handle most tasks with minimal preparation. ✅ Any company not fully embracing AI will be dead. ✅ AI will become mandatory in every profession — law, medicine, engineering — with human override potentially seen as introducing unnecessary bias or error. Avoiding AI assistance will be considered negligent. ✅ Human oversight for ethical decisions will persist, but as a socially imposed requirement rather than a technological limitation — AI could make these choices, but we'll keep humans involved for accountability and comfort. ✅ Copyright and patent laws will fundamentally restructure: either AI outputs gain full protection, or the economic value will shift to prompts and directions, creating new intellectual property categories. ✅ Human economic value will migrate to the "input layer" — your ability to direct AI systems will outweigh your ability to produce final work. ✅ Decision offloading will accelerate: People will delegate increasing numbers of daily decisions to AI, from meal planning to relationship advice, raising questions about autonomy and agency. ✅ Today's technical skills will become recreational: coding, data analysis, writing, and design will be appreciated hobbies rather than career necessities — similar to calligraphy or manual transmission driving today. ✅ Physical world integration: AI systems will increasingly control physical infrastructure, manufacturing, and transportation networks with minimal human supervision. ✅ Status hierarchies will invert: "human-only" work will become either a luxury statement or viewed as unnecessarily error-prone, while the most prestigious positions will involve orchestrating multiple AI systems. ✅ Cultural AI tensions will emerge: Without global standardization, AI systems will embody different cultural values and priorities, creating new forms of ideological and practical conflicts. ✅ Public vs. personal AI divide: Tension will grow between shared/public AI systems and personalized ones tailored to individual preferences, creating new forms of information bubbles and governance challenges. ✅ World superpowers will be defined by their AI capabilities. And finally, ✅ AGI will be achieved in 2026-2028, with ASI following by 2035-2040 in line with these predictions above.

American metro / subway stations need to normalize playing classical music over the intercom. Such a lovely relaxing experience in Amsterdam. Cleaner metros would be nice, too.

Here’s their official post

Since at least 2023 I’ve been warning that governments would soon restrict civilian use of advanced AI; but I didn’t think my concerns would materialize until at least the 2030s. I wrote then that “…we must temper AI before we lose it forever, before our own governments lock it down, forever depriving us of the extraordinary, beautiful potential it offers not just civilization as a whole, but individual people like you.” Yet here we are already. marchoag.medium.com/future-i…

MYTHOS IS... NO LONGER JUSTA MYTH!!!!!!!

iPhone 17 Pro Max (The Orange One) is the first iPhone I’ve ever gone sans case. It’s been 3/4 of a year now and my theory has proven accurate: the more banged up it gets, the more of a Star Wars-style patina it develops: the scratches and dents on the gorgeous orange metal just feel so lived in and rugged while also looking otherworldly. Most importantly, eliminating my paranoid obsession with protecting my phone has been an unlock for peace of mind.

If this isn’t AI — and I don’t think it is — I’m utterly speechless. x.com/theSciTechGuy/status/2…

X should mandate ID verification for everyone and the use of full (first/last) names, too. Agreed? Cc: @elonmusk @X @grok

Fascinating

This is pretty genius; never occurred to me.

This is undeniably stunning.

Starlink LiveATC FlightAware AirPods is AWESOME

I was inspired by @davepl1968's MacOS disk read/write menubar applet, so I decided to build my own during a 3-hour flight just now. I think we built fundamentally the same thing, but I expanded mine to include a secondary LED for showing swap file read/writes too, and also have a few other features planned. Just need to tweak a few things, but it's otherwise basically done; will share soon!

When I was a kid growing up, if I gave too much attention to any aches or pains, my mom would admonish me not to be a hypochondriac; my dad, a US Marine, would tell me to tough it out unless it was something truly dangerous. At this point I’m starting to think this guy’s social media antics are nothing more than medical parody. To be clear, I don’t discount the medical data from his experiments; but suggesting others pay such clinical attention to their health and follow such discipline, while perhaps physically healthy, is undoubtedly psychologically harmful (which in turn can cause physical damage). Reminds me of yet another joke my mom used to tell me: Guy goes to see his doctor for an annual physical: Doc: So how much alcohol do you drink? Guy: Nothing at all. Doc: Do you smoke? Guy: No. Doc: How many sexual partners do you have? Guy: None. Doc: What was your question again? Guy: What’s my life expectancy at this point? Doc: Why the hell do you care?!