The biggest cheat code in life is reframing what things mean to you. Broke up with someone? The door is open for someone better. Lost your job? You can find a better one that suits your personality. Your mind is a meaning machine and your greatest superpower is pointing it in a productive direction.
Elon Musk just told a story that should terrify every AI company on Earth.
His son Saxon is autistic.
Saxon couldn’t understand why the family went to restaurants.
You can get the same food delivered.
You can call your friends over.
You can eat better at home for half the price.
So why go?
Musk: “He had an epiphany and said, ‘Oh, the reason people go to restaurants is to hang out with strangers.’”
A kid who takes the world literally just decoded something the rest of us never thought to question.
We like being around people we’ll never know.
Look at what we already built.
Delivery apps so you never wait in line.
Remote work so you never share an office.
Self-checkout so you never talk to a cashier.
Every innovation of the last 20 years was a bet against human proximity.
Every one paid off.
Until it didn’t.
Loneliness is now a public health emergency.
Depression has doubled since the smartphone.
The average American has fewer close friends than any generation in history.
We didn’t remove friction.
We removed the thing friction was hiding.
Now look at what’s coming.
AI agents that handle your emails.
AI companions that replace your conversations.
AI assistants that make every human interaction optional.
Same playbook. Same bet.
Except this time we’re not engineering out strangers.
We’re engineering out humans entirely.
The coffee shop where nobody knows your name.
The subway where no one speaks.
The restaurant where you’ll never see that couple again.
Those aren’t failed connections.
They’re the background radiation of belonging.
We don’t just need people who know us.
We need to exist in rooms full of people who don’t.
That’s what a kid understood at a dinner table that billion-dollar companies still can’t grasp in a boardroom.
We spent 20 years building a world you never have to show up to.
AI is about to finish the job.
And nothing it builds will ever replicate sitting in a room full of strangers and not feeling alone.
Every time someone asks me what's going on with AI, I give them the safe answer. Because the real one sounds insane.
I'm done holding back.
I wrote what I wish I could sit down and tell everyone I care about.
Send it to someone who needs to read it.
https://t.co/bRTaral3lj
@grok … my dad is using an Acer windows xp/vista laptop that is so old chrome will no longer update - I suspect it hasn’t for years. I think it is time for something new.
@grok@grok how old do you think his laptop is? Well look into your recommendations. In addition to emails and browsing, he likes to use Google earth and Google sketchup
@steven_sipple 7 win season vs typical 4 - it’s progress. The problem are pundits who think we will be or should be in the national playoff talks every year.
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4Runner build day tomorrow. Adding a @EcoFlowTech alternator charger. Will need to figure out how to run wiring from the engine bay to the rear cargo area. Fun will be had by me.