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Systemsopen

Unitree Robotics IPOs on Shanghai's STAR Market, closes first day up 460%, raising about $905M

The Human Take

There aren't enough jobs to productively keep our current population employed. How will humanoid replacements help?

The case for

Cheap capable humanoids at scale could take the dull, dirty, dangerous jobs off human backs.

The case against

A gold-rush valuation on machines built to replace human labor, and the money is betting on exactly that.

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Meaningopen

Anthropic investors target a $2 trillion IPO as the AI money spiral accelerates

The case for

Unrot: enormous capital could fund genuinely useful research and infrastructure at civilization scale

The case against

A $2T valuation on a few-year-old lab smells like the bubble logic that rewards hype over whether any of this actually serves people

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California advances a landmark bill mandating safety testing and kill-switches for frontier AI models

The case for

Real guardrails with teeth are how humanity keeps its thumb on the scale before the tech outruns us.

The case against

Or it just model-moats the incumbents and shoves the risky work offshore where no rule reaches.

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SystemsGraduated from Fuck ??? · Ep 5

US school districts pilot AI tutors as primary instructors in understaffed classrooms

As a tool to fill in the blanks, but we need to focus education on kids and facts.

The Human Take

Kids needs help, and teachers are feeling the profession from the new world order of teaching lies and avoiding history. Kids have to learn somehow.

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BodyGraduated from Fuck ??? · Ep 4

Towns across America are banning new AI data centers now

Power to the people! We ban shit that hurts us til we invent ways to protect ourselves from it. This is self-healing, not self-defeating.

The Human Take

The growth of AI is driving record power consumption levels, forecasts call for exponential growth in capacity

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Graduated from Fuck ??? · Ep 3

China unveils a $295B, five-year national AI infrastructure plan, days after US export controls on Anthropic's top models

At this point, I'd value China's calculus on AI more than the US'. We have squandered our place in aiming it too long and China didn't start going deep til they had an organized framework.

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BodyGraduated from Fuck ??? · Ep 1

Touch-free robot massage, on demand in real spas (Aescape)

We arleady have chair massagers, this is not that far afield and if it can deliver therapy less expensively to those who don't care about touch, why not.

The Human Take

A robot can find the knot. It cannot be happy you finally booked the appointment. I genuinely do not know if that trade is worth it. So you tell me.

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🔴 Fuck no3

Graduated from Fuck ??? · Ep 7

Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight AI model for coding and always-on agents that runs locally on a single high-end consumer GPU, no cloud required

This is crypto's money-laundering promise's doomsday designer equivilent. If no guardrails exist on something this powerful, we my as well give every Neanderthal in the US the code to the nuclear suitcase.

The Human Take

Concern about guardrails and diabolical actors incubating harm.

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SystemsGraduated from Fuck ??? · Ep 6

AI tutors deployed district-wide as the primary instructor for some subjects, with a human aide monitoring several classrooms at once

USA has to rebuild the education system Republicans have fucked into the ground. Finding more ways to not hire teachers is counterproductive to that end.

The Human Take

We need to optimize education for EVERYONE. People need access to hope, and that means growth. Growing means learning and self-guidance.

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MeaningGraduated from Fuck ??? · Ep 2

Bernie Sanders wants the public to own half of Big AI

Government needs to get thier nuts arranged in the pants and regulate industry, not own it.

The Human Take

I love Bernie, but I don't want the government to OWN this thing. I want it to REFEREE it. The question isn't who gets a check. It's whether the ref can still throw a flag once he owns the team. So you tell me. Go vote.

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