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I find fascinating the difference between people who think of cars as a tool versus a toy. And certainly for some people it simply depends on which car.

For me, all cars are a tool. I don’t really enjoy driving. Driving is a chore I have to do in order to do things I do like.

I don’t yet own an electric car, but I find them very appealing because they would eliminate a chore from my life: going to the gas station.

I do wonder what it would be like to enjoy driving for its own sake.

> but Anthropic has a great product.

Give me $100 billion and I will make the greatest pencil sharpener that has ever existed, and possibly that will ever exist.

That’s not entirely true. There are parts of mathematics that have useful real world applications. Sometimes even the parts we thought were esoteric and abstract turn out to have applications that were not conceived of yet at the time of discovery.

What is “pure” energy?

That’s the risk. You can write it down or otherwise store it, but you’re trading one risk for another.

That feels like a broad generalization, but in either case that’s cultural. The underlying desires are still there, whether expressed or not.

How so? I think applied mathematics is the exception.

I’m pretty sure cryptocurrency enthusiasts are a small minority of cryptocurrency users.

Sure, the plot devices might be rendered moot by technological change but the underlying motivations remain the same.

Technology has changed, but humans haven’t.

It would turn the poor into organ farms for the rich. It would also further incentive coercive organ sales and provide cover for forced organ sales.

Commit it to memory, the original kind.

Fine, but first we must eliminate all poverty.

To simplify: it’s essentially work X hours per week, performing the job duties described for the position, the specifics of which will be supplied to you by your boss (they tell you what to do).

If your boss believes you are performing a satisfactory amount of work for the time spent, you keep your job. If not, or they just don’t like you for some reason not protected by law, you lose your job.

You do what they tell you and hope they are happy with the results.

No you do the opposite: you don’t charge those whose underlying values and beliefs you agree with. Everyone has broken some law.

So it’s there for them when they’re no longer a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.