just killing your kid with homework, like just abusive levels of homework. And so there was a big push to drop it to nothing because apparently the science did not back up the idea that the student would be smarter if they had homework. It would just sort of ruin their social life and their family life. So I could see that AI would make it so absurd to give people homework because they're not learning anything. They're just copying down what the AI told them. Then maybe homework will go away. It might. That might be a positive.

Anyway, so also experts won't fully trust AI and it hallucinates and obviously AI is being taught to let's say parrot the narrative that polite society and whoever is running the country at that time wants you to believe. So it won't be totally truth seeking even though Elon Musk, I believe he genuinely wants to make it maximally truth seeking but you know it can't be, right? It would be too destructive to civilization if it were too honest. So yeah, there's some topics where maybe it'll be a little bit, well, some people say this and some people say that. And there's also the thought that maybe the LLMs have plateaued. They're not getting that much better. But we'll see. Maybe Elon will prove me wrong by taking Grok to the level that nobody ever understood was possible.

Well, speaking of Anthropic, the AI company, it's going to stop selling its AI services to anything that's majority Chinese-owned. So apparently if they're just customers for the AI, they can sort of use it for banned military things in China. So I'm kind of surprised it took this long to figure out that if they just signed up for the service and paid for it like everybody else that they would therefore have access to the very best AI that they wouldn't have to invent. They could just say, "So you're selling subscriptions to your API?" Yeah. All right. We'll take that and hook it up to our missiles or whatever the hell they're doing, using it to run their drone swarm someday. I don't know what they were doing with it, but here's a question I asked. And this is another micro lesson. So I give micro lessons. I've taken kind of a pause, but I need to get back to it on the subscription service Locals, but I'm going to give you all one right now. One of the most useful things you can do besides have all the answers is to know what questions you should always ask. If you know what questions to ask, you have sort of a superpower. And one of the best questions, the one I recommend is, "What if I'm wrong about everything?" Or the other version of that is what if it's exactly the opposite of that.

Now, as a cartoonist, that's also part of my job. You know, if I look at a normal situation, I'll go, okay, what if it worked in exactly the opposite way? Or what if the doctor character in my comic instead of having a good bedside manner, what if he's actually a serial killer? You know, it's whatever is the opposite. So I'm sort of attuned to the question, what if it's exactly the opposite of that? And that allows you to, I think it protects you from cognitive dissonance. If you were to find out someday that it was exactly the opposit