And the #crazy# part is: just a few years ago, $50 or $60 could get a family of four a pretty decent meal at a sit-down restaurant. But now, because inflation has gone up so much while salaries haven’t kept up—and for some people, salaries have effectively gone #down—things# that used to be affordable are no longer affordable. #McDonald’s# becoming a “#luxury”# is already a sign of how much has changed. The same thing is happening with eating out in general. Back then, a working-class family could go out to eat maybe once a month. Now even that can feel like a luxury. Places like Applebee’s or Cheesecake Factory used to be treated as “cheap” or even a joke—people would say #things# like, “If your boyfriend takes you to Applebee’s, dump him.” But today, that attitude doesn’t even make sense anymore, because Cheesecake Factory is expensive too. Eating out has become a middle-class luxury, not something normal.

AI models don't need to slow down because things are already extreme compute is the bottleneck openai spent millions on compute and cleared a Millennium Prize problem, so a lot may already be possible. there just isn't enough compute it comes down to how fast hyperscalers can bring more compute online

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump rejects calls to slow down AI development. Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk have all backed calls to slow things down over serious safety concerns. They’re worried upcoming AI could become hard to control, be used for major cyberattacks, or even become a threat to humanity. Trump disagrees. His view: America needs to keep moving fast, or China could take the lead.

here are 7 rules to drastically improve Claude's writing: 1. have it dumb things down a lot... it loves to overcomplicate 2. challenge it to write as little as possible, that's usually the sweet spot 3. ask for contractions, small asides, ellipses: the human touch 4. one idea per sentence, one sentence per line (helps the structure a lot) 5. make it talk like it's chatting with a good friend over coffee... 6. never one-shot a full copy, have it work section by section 7. let another model judge the final piece and flag anything unclear for your audience