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erything. So, no, I think that some of the science is backwards. Having good self-esteem might get you on the field. But then being on the field, if you did well, or maybe even if you don't, might boost your self-esteem. So, it's sort of a two-way situation is my guess. DoorDash has been testing for a few years now some autonomous devices. One of them it looks like they'll have something for aut…

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s phone like you are. What would be more dangerous? An autonomous device on the sidewalk that sees you and adjusts and moves out of your way or a human looking at their phone and walking down the middle of the sidewalk? Which do you prefer? How about two fat people in front of you that don't get out of the way? What's better?

Well, see, sidewalks are a problem. Have you ever had anybody in a wheelchair attack you? I had that experience in San Francisco there. Apparently, there was some well-known wheelchair guy who would literally just run his wheelchair into you and it hurt. It hurt because it's a wheelchair and it's moving into you. And he was just some bastard that would just target people and wheelchair into them because nobody was willing to call the police on the wheelchair guy, including me. Yeah, I jus

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t took it. Moved on. Anyway, I'm not too worried about the DoorDash robot, but it won't be completely smooth sailing, but I think they have to get there eventually. Got to do it. OpenAI has released a list of work tasks it says ChatGPT can already do in replacement of human activity. Now apparently OpenAI is sort of trying to walk this fine line between scaring you that AI will take all your job…

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