> 1. Make a video documenting each piece and its story while she’s still alive. Get her to tell the family history, where items came from, what they meant to her. This preserves what actually matters.
The wild thing is that “what actually matters” likely becomes “what doesn’t matter” after one more generation when people who never met the person in the video inherit the video.
We are all just here for a brief time and yet we (myself certainly included!) cling so hard to attempting to leave a mark.
Most people we know only think about us for a month or so after we’re gone. Only our closest family and friends think about us longer and even then maybe not so many years later.
I spent a good amount of time digging into genealogy tools last year, tracing some family as far back to the 1500s. I felt it was a pretty mind-expanding exercise, learning about the places people lived and the journeys they must have taken. It inspired me to read from other sources about what life was like at each juncture.
Among the various records there were some that involved wills and estates—lists of who got what 200 years ago. Land, horses, money. It was fascinating in its own right, but I'll say that a video of any of those people talking about their life experience would have been absolutely incredible, if for nothing else but to conceptualize how extraordinarily the world has changed, while also feeling connection with the little human details of daily life that have likely remained much the same.
Those targets don’t seem like they would generate in excess of $1 trillion in profits. Not entirely sure they would generate that much in revenues, so why wouldn’t Elon just buy that many robotaxis and AI bots himself as a profitable strategy to unlock his comp package?
I generally agree with you about it the article and would have preferred more data, but I don’t think specific regulations are needed to understand that when the rest of the world has 95% of the worldwide elevator market and North America carved itself out on an island with different regulations that limit the market for elevator equipment and replacement parts, the price will be higher and the supply with consequently be lower.
If it is good enough for the entirety of the rest of the world I have a hard time thinking our regulations are doing anything but protecting entrenched local interests.
I have elevators in a number of my buildings and I can tell you first hand that something is wrong with the market. Elevator technicians are no more highly trained than electricians or plumbers and yet their hourly rates exceed that of my Bay Street lawyer. Repairs are obscenely expensive.
Clearly the US needs a constitutional amendment to preserve the right to keep and bear AI tools. Then we can arm the victims of AI tools with their own AI tools, for self-defense. If we're lucky, AI will send its AI thoughts and AI prayers in carefully calculated quantities.
