Joe Rogan and AI

About 40 minutes into this interview, Jensen Huang talks about how ai has effected REAL JOBS. One of the foundational researchers of ai predicted that radiologists would lose their jobs since ai is better at reading the x-rays. However, what actually happened was that radiology jobs increased over that time. AI was not replacing the radiologist, is was making an individual task more efficient and accurate.

I think we need to look at the law industry in a similar light. It's not replacing the lawyer, it's not holding depositions, or implementing strategy, or the million other hats lawyers wear. But it can be really good at speeding up discovery while reducing errors just like AI did for radiology.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hptKYix4X8

Books<Youtube?

While I agree with the sentiment that attention spans are dwindling and people are too distracted by consumerism, I suspect there is a bit of boomer doom sprinkled in.

Yes, people are not reading as much. They are watching tv, or going out to drink, or working on their next side hustle, but was this ever different? People have been distracted and refuse to learn since distractions were available.

We so easily forget the progress we have made. Look at YouTube! It's a free resource with nearly unlimited useful information. Need to fix your washer? YouTube. Need to know how to cook something? YouTube. yes, I can read a cookbook or instruction manual, but being able to see what is going on is a huge boost to people's ability to accomplish the task.

Yes, reading is dying, but maybe it's not only a bad thing.

Source: https://www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferguson-without-books-we-will-be-barbarians?amp%3Butm_medium=organic-social&%3Butm_source=twitter&https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefp.com%2Fsubscribe=

Apple Intelligence…

Where has apple been in the ai race? While Google has arguably advanced farther than anyone else controlling the entire ai stack from custom hardware to its own models, apple not only has fallen behind with Siri, they don't have any fill scale hardware or even a competing model; instead relying on chat gpt when things get hard.

Where is the apple that shook up the compute works with m1 apple silicon? Where is the apple that dominates chip design, power efficiency, and raw performance? Apple seems to be in a prime position to dominate, yet they don't seem to have any roadmap for success.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/12/01/apple-ai.html