Never use AI for friendship, it’s like admitting you only want yes-men in your life. I don’t want to be around anyone who uses AI for emotional support.

You can make ad blockers illegal, but you can’t actually enforce it unless you have a dystopian totalitarian government with a secret police to track down anyone using one. Does Germany have that?

Twenty years is a very long time, also “good” is relative. I give it about 2-3 years until we can run a model as powerful as Opus 4.1 on a laptop.

Things have improved, people’s standards are just significantly higher. Remember when we didn’t even have clean drinking water? Nope, wasn’t alive back then.

The bubble is irrelevant, that’s just capitalism being inefficient. When the dot com bubble popped it’s not like the internet died. We got things like Netflix and Amazon only after the bubble popped.

I don’t hate AI, and I think broadly hating AI is pretty dumb. It’s a tool that can be used for beneficial things when used responsibly. It can also be used stupidly and for bad things. It’s the person using it who is the decider.