u/Healthcarepls

In spirit of an optimistic week in AI development, I've written this short story:

A day in the life 2035

8am

I woke up with a bit of a scare. My health tracker let me know that my liver is still damaged despite the recent treatment, in fact it seems to have gotten worse. Tracker says I won’t have symptoms for the moment so that’s cool, but I’ll have to visit the pharmacy next week to pick up a new CRISPR treatment. Tracker reassures me that the upcoming treatment has an 87% success rate. I calm down and make myself breakfast.

10am

I hear a knock on my door. My robot has finally arrived!

I got a robot on the cheaper end, it does the trick. It doesn’t look human and it struggles with out-of-home tasks, but it does the trick. I have ADHD so I honestly just needed something to help keep my house organized, and now it’s here! Let’s see how it goes.

11am

I watch as the robot does my chores for me. Damn, this is going to be awesome! 

I pull up my agentic dashboard of the last 24 hours. Yesterday, I instructed my agent to design a new system for organizing appointments for my team’s Seniors Entertainment Initiative.

You see, there’s a lot of older people who decided to not interact with the new technology. They believe that humans should live as they were in the scarcity era. I don’t know why. Life is so much easier now. But they claim it’s more authentic to live that way. The only problem is that we’re in desperate need to automate the tasks of our aging population, and this Luddism is kinda getting in the way of that. 

Because they’re not using new tech, these seniors can sometimes feel isolated, so we organize entertaining activities for them, free of modern technology. 

And… amazing! My agent found a way to collect Seniors’ availabilities and present them to our team through an easy to follow schedule, awesome! 

12pm

My team and I call to talk about each others’ agentic workflow outputs. My colleague confirms that the Nintendo 64s have been delivered to his house. Our next run of visits will involve playing retro games. I’m so excited! Some of them are going to discover their new favorite hobby, and others are going to struggle. It’ll be fun either way.

1pm

After the call, my phone pings me to vote on a local issue. My local neighbourhood is deciding whether to start growing Linden or Ginkgo trees for the area. My city has opted for massive tree planting to shade the city during hyper El Niño waves, it low key feels like I live in a jungle sometimes, but I’m not complaining. My apartment has so much privacy because of the trees, they smell amazing and there’s so much biodiversity around me.

I don’t really know what Linden or Ginkgo trees are so I tell my phone that I want more trees that smell good. It votes for Ginkgo on my behalf. Hopefully that’s what I actually want.

3pm

Most of my friends are at Space training right now. The Country of Geniuses recently discovered a way to easily send the average civilian into space, so the trendy vacation spot now is the moon. Civilians still need to learn how to manage high levels of G-force and low gravity though, so they need training. I get dizzy pretty easily so I’m going to wait a few years for the trip to be less bumpy. Since I’ve got nothing planned, I decide to just go relax.

One of my favourite developments about AI is that it handles my schedule perfectly, which means that I can live every moment completely in the present. No need for a clock, or a worry. I lie down and watch the leaves dance in the wind, letting my mind wander aimlessly for a blurry amount of time. 

4:55pm 

My mom calls to share her excitement about some new longevity discoveries they made in Kinshasa. My mom and I agree that we would both love to live longer. There’s so much exciting stuff happening and it would be awesome to live that together. We agree that we’ll try space travel at the same time, she gets dizzy easily too.

After the call, I start thinking about death. I worry one of us won’t make it to the longevity era, leaving the other to explore the adventure of life alone. My thoughts darken for a moment.. I’ve never been one to share my feelings or cry, but my AI coach encouraged me to feel more. I ruminate more on my thoughts and cry for awhile.

7pm

Gaming is basically whatever you want it to be now. I decide to spend my evening flying around and visiting various realistic depictions of places on earth.

9pm 

Wandering through the world, I come across a Mogadishan techno DJ, an urban rooftop beekeeper from Paris, and a high-school student from Okinawa. Because of translation, I’m having seamless conversations with all these people from widely different upbringings from me, but we understand each other. I learn about an endearing tradition they do for seniors in Okinawa, where elders form a Moai, a lifelong social support circle that meets regularly to share meals, swap stories, and ensure no one ever faces isolation alone. It gives me ideas for my next senior visit.

10pm

I turn off my headset and look around my room. Everything is spotless. I didn’t have to worry one second about cleaning.

I could get used to this! 

This week's been a lot.. a massive labor union endorsed AI, Kimi K3 dropped and can one-shot a Mario 64-style game from a single prompt, and China is calling for a massive embrace of open model distribution.

These models are getting *scary* smart, and a bunch of them can run locally, on your own machine or even your phone.

It feels like a lot of pieces are lining up for what some people would call "AI Communism": a world where massive compute and execution power sits at everyone's fingertips instead of locked behind a handful of corporate APIs. And with MoE architectures doing more with less, we're also looking at a genuinely smaller ecological footprint per model.

A lot of the left's early criticisms of AI are starting to fade, replaced by more concrete, actionable politics, like data center regulation, and this open-source wave is looking more and more like the real path forward.

We might actually have a positive future thanks to accessible AI. What do you think?

Hier, quand le ciel était orange, on était nerveux, c'était troublant. Mais j'ai le sentiment qu'on a SOUSréagit. Il y a deux ans quand on a eu notre premier ciel orange, c'était clair que quelque chose devait changer: Montréal n'avait jamais eu un ciel aussi orange.

Mais là aux élections municipales et aussi au fédéral, on a pratiquement pas parlé du climat. Au fédéral, on avait trop peur de trump. Au municipal... jsp, on avait genre une fatigue verte.

MAIS LA... ON DOITTTTT PARLER DU CLIMAT AUX PROCHAINES ÉLECTIONS. L'élection québécoise est dans 2-3 mois. On doit s'assurer qu'on ne se traine pas par terre!!

Et si toi t'es pas d'accord... beinnn moi j'aime quand le ciel est bleu alorsss jsp, en tk

Let’s inspire each other

Looks like Mamdani is taking the lead on proving how technology blends perfectly with leftist ideology.

There are already many signs that post-scarcity is creeping up on humanity:

1. The Democratization to intelligence: A paralegal, nurse, life coach and more now lives inside our phones. Every 3-6 months, this hyperintelligent being becomes smarter.
2. Robotization: More and more tasks are getting automated. Fast food and grocery stores have self-serve kiosks, Amazon warehouses have robots carrying packages around, Waymo is automating the taxi industry, office workers are using AI to identify and program automations.

Objectively, work weeks and living costs should be shrinking, but they're not. Why? Because every post-scarcity gain we create, a corporation swoops in to claim the benefit.

This is the main tension of the modern human: Why are humans fighting harder to stay alive in an era of plummeting production costs?

Under capitalism, profit must be generated to be deemed a successful endeavour. Human life, joy, and meaningful memories, however, cannot be measured as profit. This means the massive drops in living costs are invisible to our economy unless consumer prices remain high and generate profit. This creates a fundamental mismatch between the priorities of the individual human, and the economic system that seemingly works for us.

Why should we take on profit-generating activities in a world where everything could soon be free? As leftists we need to address this mismatch more aggressively. There's a reason Trillionaires are starting to pop up: It's because capitalism is not democratizing the skyrocketing value of technology. We should be feeling how easy life has become already!

There’s no way people will be willing to downgrade from Fable 5 to Sonnet 5, or worse, Opus 4.8, when GPT 5.6 is right there..

I’m willing to bet Opus 5 is about to drop

I’m curious to know what you think of this video

This is a notable voice from the left in Canada

What’s more leftist than coalition building? If you know great orgs that are pushing leftist AI principles, drop them below 👇 🔥 🔥 Let’s support each other

Let’s inspire each other on ways we can use AI to improve the lives of the average person

Here are some ideas:
- Navigating government documents is a lot easy with the help of AI, especially when the documents aren’t in your native language
- offering preliminary legal advice that can help a person defend themselves
- concepts can be explained faster (pocket Socrates)

As we enter post scarcity in the next few decades, parasites like Nestle will attempt to maintain profitability on various human rights, like food, housing and more.

Our governments need to own massive fleets of robots that handle basic human needs to prevent this from happening. The publicly funded robotization of various industries will generate massive community benefits, being some of the best invested tax dollars we’ve ever spent.

I understand that cocky models that “push back” and question everything are amazing for coding.

But it also makes them a bit insufferable.. Claude used to be an excellent conversationalist. It would have excellent tonal and linguistic variety, and its writing resonated with me and many others.

Perhaps Anthropic could make a variant of sonnet or opus that has pushback set near zero.

They could call it Ballad 5 and it could be the default model for people who mainly use web and app.

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This year we’ve solidly reached the milestone of having hyper intelligent agents at our fingertips. But what if the next milestone is operating agents beyond our fingertips?

I’ve become addicted to agents who create value for me every day and every hour. I am achieving things so rapidly and with little cognitive effort.

But now, I feel like the weakest tools in my arsenal are my voice and fingertips. Fingers are not as fast as voice. But voice doesn’t offer the privacy and reliability of fingers.

As agents accelerate, I genuinely feel like the main factor slowing us down is our capacity to input.

Closed loop agents will solve this partially, by removing human input completely.

But as we become more bionic, it seems crystal clear that new inputs will have to be explored. Will we use intelligent rings? Will technology track our eyes? Can we wear unobstrusive tech that will detect actions we want to give AI?

I’m wondering: do you feel this way too? We are so lucky to live in this era of rapid growth; and I find it so fascinating to watch my own body struggle to catch up to the new paradigm.

Disclaimer, I’m super casual with Gemini. I ask a bunch of random questions, maybe analyze a document, create silly images…

But I just got Siri AI and it basically does the same thing. And it’s free. I’m seriously considering just ending my subscription at this point.

Apple lowk brought down the cost of everyday AI

Seeing a big wave of negative/angry posts in this subreddit and I just want to also say that I’m having a great time.

I know it’s a bumpy ride but I genuinely enjoy getting to play a game in its alpha phase and has seemingly infinite budget, it’s such a joy to play what is and what will be my favorite game ever. Thanks frog!!

We know for a fact that Meta’s social media algorithms divide and degrade society.

And here’s a way that Meta avoids accountability for that:

Today I was browsing on IG and I saw a comment of someone saying that they used to hate a particularly famous genocidal dictator from the 20th century but now they love them.

I reported the comment and the comment disappeared.

A few hours later, Meta messages me and says that they didn’t remove the comment.

???

Because Meta hid the comment after I reported it, I can’t screenshot it and tell people that Meta refused to delete it. They can therefore avoid accountability.

An organization that cared about the impact of its product or service would have intervened in this situation. However, Meta doesn’t delete hate speech; instead, it facilitates it. It doesn’t delete deepfakes or oversee content quality; it only serves content that it deems attention-grabbing. Whole time, this content is harming us.

Every second we spend on Meta’s hellscape of thoughtless brain acid, we are actively degrading our minds.

I love VR. In terms of favorite technologies, VR is my personal top choice. I have a PSVR2 and I have spent over 300$ on VR games, and I was going to spend more… BUT

The USB-C cable connecting my headset to the console is wonky. After maybe 100 hours of use, the wire is bent and struggles to connect to the console.

Guess how much PlayStation quoted me to fix the wire? 350$ CAD.

I was planning on being a lifetime PSVR customer, but this completely broke my trust. 350$ for a USB wire? To me, this signals a company that has no interest in retaining its customers. I am waiting for the Steam Frame to launch and then I’m switching.

But if PSVR has, you know, a replaceable wire, or a better repair service, now we’re talking.