Back to episode — Episode 2949 CWSA 09/05/25
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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 lear…
← Previous segment →e of what you believed all your life that you would at least have the comfort of knowing that you had asked it, meaning that you would suspect it maybe, maybe it's the opposite. And I think that every time I hear about China being behind us in AI, oh, they'll never catch up to our AI. Really? What if it's exactly the opposite? What if China was smart enough to develop their best AI in total secret and not reveal it as like a free app? How would we really know? Would we really know if China was behind us on AI? And if China was ahead on AI, we would not know. So if someday we find out that China really had a secret AI thing that was just like Iran's underground bunkers and it was just really massive and they had better AI, they were just hiding the good stuff. I wouldn't be surprised.
All right. TechCrunch has a story about Mark Zuckerberg suing Mark Zuckerberg. So it turns out that there are at least two Mark Zuckerbergs. One is a lawyer and every time he uses Facebook to advertise his legal practice, Facebook's bots spotted it as a fake page because it's Mark Zuckerberg. So they think it's a parody and so they delete his account or they block him. So for years he's been getting blocked because they think he's a joker and now he's just going to sue them.
Oh, Gary the cat coming in to say hi. And now your day is complete. That's what you wanted. All right. Oh. Get your tail out of my mouth. Yeah. All right.
So there's a new story about a top aide to a Newark mayor who just pled guilty to a corruption scheme for, it's a pay-to-play thing. He got 20 years in prison. Now, pay-to-play means that you would give contracts to preferred people and do favors in return for bribes and stuff. So I will say again what I always say with these corruption stories. I believe that all government is just designed for maximum corruption. Because if you've got one or two people who can control what favors are doled out, there's really no way to control that people will find some indirect or clever way to pay them for it. And so over time it's going to attract the people who have figured out how to monetize the office. So other people will say, "Well, I have lots of capabilities, so I'll just go into some honest job." But the peop
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le who decide to work in government and put their whole life into government, I feel like they would only do it if they had some ill intent. It just feels like that. It's like maybe 80% of the people who go into government are thinking, well once I get that cushy job in the Senate my net worth is going to zoom. So we need some kind of mechanism so that the elected officials especially at the state…
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