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I don’t know if I feel like the headline features improve much over the last version.

But I might be in the minority of people who don’t talk much to their TV.

As a provider, I can add a tool or change instructions on my MCP server, and you'll get it on your next connection, sometimes even mid-session.

With a skill, updates depend on whatever channel delivered it to you. Whichever channel that is, it's out of my hands as a provider.

So, MCP solves the problem of coordinated distribution of updates to a larger subscriber base. Think inside of a company, for example. I don't have to go around and tell people to `git pull` their skills folder.

As far as I understand, quantum computing can cut it in half, to 128 effective bits. Still way too large to brute force from there.

I’m guessing that passing the tokens through the visual cortex doesn’t matter as much as how you engage with the content.

Right, I'm not saying that they would be regulated, but rather the provider of the instrument, and the market adoption of it.

Take the emotions he experienced after the event: "Who do I talk to, how do I undo this, what do I do" etc., and the fact that he's met with a wall of silence from Anthropic.

Perhaps there needs be more concerted preparation, guidance, direction and less trial and error for how society adopts it.

The imperfect comparison that sometimes comes up is to that of nuclear power, where international regulation and guidance quickly was adopted. I'm not necessarily endorsing the literal comparison, but an attitude of "well, let's just see how people choose to use nuclear power" would have yielded a significantly different world, I'm sure.

> he asks who is accountable when an AI agent causes autonomous damage

He is. On the other hand, when a tool of massive power becomes increasingly easy to use, it becomes increasingly easy to misuse, intentionally or not.

The question is if self-regulation is enough. Not that I necessarily trust legislators to know any better. But like we have observed from the world of agentic coding, sometimes two stupid things can behave as a unit of higher intelligence than the individual parts.

With the bare minimum of modern electronics. The dream.

While I hear you, I think AC is better centralized for the building, along with heat and water.

Yes, there are numerous reasons why this is harder to do than just doing it ad-hoc per apartment, but if we’re to see it as infrastructure, it should receive the same level of consideration as other utilities.

To be fair, this seems consistent with what they normally do, and arguably consistent with what their voters want.

It's cultural.

I've read that German society, for example, is largely based on contracts between the family unit and the state. Sweden, as a contrast, is largely based on contracts between individuals and the state.

As an example, Germany treats a married couple as a fiscal unit, Sweden abolished joint taxation in the 70s. Swedish parental leave is allocated per individual, and is mostly non-transferable.

In a lot of ways, individualism is produced by state contract in Sweden.

They could build them somewhere where people don't care. But you can't co-opt 70 years of public infrastructure investments out in the middle of nowhere.

And didn’t Genghis Khan more or less go to war with most of the known (and some of the unknown) world and for all intents and purposes win?

You'd probably want to be more precise regarding "important for what" as well. And the philosophical angle: if the person hadn't existed, would someone else have slotted in to take their place? Is the impact measured in years/decades, because the overall historical forces were heading in a direction anyway?

Is it like trying to say "the most important bacterium in a petri dish"?

Without diminishing the impact that Musk has had, I'm fairly certain that Musk isn't the answer. And either way, the intent of saying that Musk is the most important person in history I'm fairly certain wasn't a very grounded decision. I'm sure it was more an expression of reverence and fealty.

Whoever came up with the wheel, maybe? Perhaps someone carrying the original homo sapiens mutations?