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Extrapolating from my current experience with AI-assisted work: AI just makes work more meaningful. My output has increased 10x, allowing me to focus on ideas and impact rather than repetitive tasks. Now apply that to entire industries and whole divisions of labor: manual data entry, customer support triage, etc. Will people be out of those jobs? Most certainly. But it gives all of us a chance to level up—to focus on more meaningful labor.

As a father, my forward-thinking vision for my kids is that creativity will rule the day. The most successful will be those with the best ideas and most inspiring vision.

A teacher of mine often reminds me that in many cultures—like Japanese and Native American traditions—the role of having an enemy is viewed with a certain respect. Enemies help define us. They challenge us, sharpen us, and push us to grow. Western culture tends to abhor the idea of having enemies, but sometimes, having them simply means you’ve stood for something meaningful—something worth noticing.

It seems Pope Francis had his share of critics—those who opposed his beliefs or feared his vision. And yet, he stood firm and made people think. In that sense, perhaps even his enemies affirmed the impact he was making.

No. This isn't an economic policy.

It’s time to stop bending over backwards pretending that Trump’s tariff threats are part of a coherent economic strategy. They’re not.

When you drop the economic lens and view tariffs as a political tool for consolidating power, everything suddenly makes sense.

Here’s how it works: - Tariffs hurt corporations. They jack up costs, raise costs. Executives know this. The markets know this. - But there’s a loophole: carve-outs. Trump has the power to exempt individual companies or industries from these tariffs. That means if you’re a CEO and your business is on the line, your only option is to go to Trump and ask for mercy. - That’s not policy. It’s leverage. It creates a system where corporate leaders must show loyalty to get relief. Not because it’s good for the economy, but because it’s good for Trump. Maybe it's public support for his initiatives, attacks on his enemies. Whatever it is, it gives him political power.

This mirrors the playbook used by authoritarian leaders throughout history. Look at Putin. His use of tariffs wasn’t about growing Russia’s economy—it was about punishing enemies, rewarding loyalty, and projecting control. Tariffs became a way to rewire power dynamics.

> The obvious solution is not to hurt the economy as a whole, but rather for the government to lower the cost of high-quality education, build out social systems, and invest into onshoring select strategic industries by raising taxes at the high end.

You are assuming that this administration has the same goals as you, just different ("foolish") methods of arriving there. I'd posit that they have very different goals that these methods are solving for.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that many were given away at deep discounts or for free to help grow "awareness" and make it look more popular than it is.

Such a strange name choice for a startup - my mind completes the name, which evokes the name of their competitor.

To follow that line of thinking, it could be way more profitable for you to take your $180/yr "bonus" and put it into angel investments. If you have decent connections and have a good eye - you'll probably have a much higher expected return than your 1% at a startup.

In your view, is that how all businesses should be run as well? Hiring your least qualified friends? Surely, cronyism exists in corporate America, but I'd venture a guess that a company run in this way would fail almost immediately. No, this style of management and hiring is more like that of a crime boss - and it's not about friendships - it's about LOYALTY.

This is a very important conversation to have right now. Thank you for your vulnerability in sharing it.

It would be nice if such a ban meant that a small competitor could get a jumpstart. Instead I fear the result is that Meta just gets bigger.

One important function that public school offers to society is protection for children. Teachers are mandatory reporters, and so are many school staff. Parents are not.

"That’s the term the climate left is suddenly using" - suggests a partisan bent that is not suitable for HN.

Final Update: A Meta employee was able to resolve the ban and restore my account. Thanks all for the visibility and support.

Update: Because they banned everything associated with my account, my developer account has been disabled, which broke a live mobile app. I have no way to restore or fix it because they seem to have blocked my IP from creating new accounts. Absolutely bonkers!

I’m learning my lesson: no more FB integration.

Thank you, I really appreciate it. It's definitely food for thought that this can happen!

Calling it now: Google will ultimately lose this consumer battle. How? By doing what they've always done: building better tech. Gemini will be faster/better and it will have more features; but they will continue to fail to productize or explain it to consumers.

Google's offerings here are still a huge mess. OpenAI is crushing them right now at building products that people want, and making them accessible.

I can't wait for the home assistant device roll-out. ChatGPT is miles beyond Siri and Google.

I don't even drink coffee and I want one! Nice work

With zero doubt. Faster than we expect. And yet, it's nice that we are learning to distrust what we see before the "real real" stuff comes out.

And yet, OP referred to a thread where the reality of the shorts were being questioned by "average" people. Imagine a world where OpenAI were the first out the gates with this and just started producing their own videos without telling anyone about their technology or letting creators play with it. They'd make loads of money, probably could topple governments... I'm glad these tools are being made generally available versus the alternative.

On the other hand, because these tools like this are being made available before output is perfected, you and many others are being trained in AI discernment; being able to detect fake things will be a helpful skill to have for some time: another form of critical thinking.

It would be FAR worse if a privately held advanced AI's outputs were unleashed without the population being at least somewhat cautious of everything. The real danger imho comes from private silos of advanced general intelligence that aren't shared and used to gain power, control, and money.

Videogen is still not generally available. It's just a beta sign up, as it's been for what- a year?

Are ads what people want?

Reference? This isn't mentioned anywhere and certainly is not implied.

It's available today for Plus users at chatgpt.com.

Seeing "nedanriqgjbwantecoja.supabase.co" as the site name when I attempt to log into your site. Doesn't inspire a ton of confidence.

As much as that’s an eye-catching headline, even the author admits it was a bad study that hasn’t been reproduced.

If you're a Waldorf fan, you might be interested to learn that Steiner was against left-handedness, thinking it caused by a spiritual deficiency. Modern Waldorf schools actively "correct" left handedness because of this. [1]

[1]: https://waldorfcritics.org/faq/

My kids love making their own board games. There are simple kits from amazon with blank boards, cards, dice etc - great for creativity.

> that the team is totally working on solving it any day now.

With just a itty bitty bit more funding!