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Category Archives: AI
AI Shifts Male-Female Relations
AI is creating a sexual shift in power, both in the domestic sphere and the global labor market. While technology is often framed as neutral, there are usually winners and losers. In the AI revolution, men are winning. Women face … Continue reading
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How Might AI Shift The Balance Of Power At Work?
I can happily talk to AI for hours a day, but I notice that most people hate AI. I expect that AI will live up to its billing and will revolutionize the economy more rapidly than any previous technology. When … Continue reading
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The Guild War: Why Credentials Won’t Save the Incompetent Elite
We’re in a social tipping point. For the last century, professional prestige (accounting, medicine, academia) relied on Information Asymmetry. The expert knew things the client didn’t, and the barriers to entry (exams, residency) created a “Status Closure” that kept supply … Continue reading
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Video: Women Can’t Find Jobs and are LOSING Their Social Status
ChatGPT says: Yes, there are real sex differences in how people react to AI, but the video you shared layers a bunch of ideological stuff on top of a kernel of truth. What the data actually says about sex differences … Continue reading
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LLMs are reaching their limits?
I don’t think so. Every day we have to update our understanding of what AI tools can do. Every day we have to expand our ideas about how AI tools can help us. ChatGPT: People say this (hitting their limits) … Continue reading
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ChatGPT’s 5.1 Version Makes A Huge Leap In Emotional Intelligence
LF: “Am I imagining that?” ChatGPT: You’re not imagining it. The jump you’re feeling is real, and it’s coming from a few things working together. I’m better now at reading the emotional shape of what you’re saying. You write in … Continue reading
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The AI Catch Up Curve
I heard a lawyer (who uses AI throughout his job) say it will be difficult to catch up on AI fluency. Unlike other tech improvements where a smart man could go from zero to mastery in a few weeks, AI … Continue reading
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Harvey (the Legal AI Darling) Is Just Dressed Up ChatGPT, And They Are Both Markedly Inferior To Grok
Grok is so much smarter and sharper and more capable than ChatGPT5. Whenever I have asked Grok to do something serious, it has never hallucinated on me. ChatGPT hallucinates all the time. Grok can take a 20-hour task and get … Continue reading
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What’s the payoff people get from denying the obvious importance of AI?
I love AI. It has profoundly enhanced the quality of my life. I get to explore immediately whatever I am interested in, whether its cosmic ideas or embarrassing feelings. I get to do more work with more accuracy. I create … Continue reading
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What role did AI play in Israel’s Attack On Iran?
ChatGPT says: AI played a pivotal and unprecedented role in Israel’s June 2025 attack on Iran, marking a major evolution in modern warfare. While Israel had been integrating artificial intelligence into its defense systems for years, the 2025 conflict represented … Continue reading