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Eric McKay

@ericmckay

Founder of RealTalk. Free AI for real estate agents.

 Phoenix, AZ
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Joined July 2011
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Backlash is inevitable when the AI leaders are debating QALY equivalence between shrimps and our unborn descendants and the people being displaced by it are writing like this. thebaffler.com/salvos/paid-p…
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At work Claude 1: Review my code Claude 2: I found the root cause of the error Claude 3: I'm out of tokens Claude 4: Let's delve into these seams At home Kid 1: Play chess with me Kid 2: Can you read to me? Kid 3: Listen to what happened at school Kid 4: *cries*
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The best arg for banning Chinese open source models is like the arg for patents: grant a monopoly to reward R&D at the frontier. Patents work well for pharma but not for fashion. What do you do about AI, which has the R&D reqs of pharma but the shelf life of fashion?
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Has there ever been a Streisand effect as strong as demoting Pluto? My kids who were born 15 years after it was re-classified couldn't tell you a thing about Neptune but are obsessed with Pluto.
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After a few weekends of testing, i have discovered my Clawdad constant: # of claudes running + # of children supervised at the same time = 6
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Related: why do all kid dentists baby talk to my kids? “We’re going to give you some sleepy juice to buzz buzz the sugar bugs away” 🤮
Matt Bateman (@mbateman) profile pictureMatt Bateman
@mbateman11 Dec 2025
My vocabulary level when speaking to my 2yo and 5yo children is somewhere around “smart undergraduate”.
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This makes my kids more scared of the dentist. A man who intends to put sharp objects in their mouth is talking like an idiot. I wouldn't trust him either
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In an alternate universe where DOGE had been the one to uncover massive terrorist-funding fraud by immigrants in Tim Walz’s state, how much faster would humans get to mars?
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Montessori schools are magical. One teacher can deliver a top tier, personalized education to 25+ kids aged 3-6. But it's an open question how to replicate Montessori magic for older students. Schools like GT are betting that AI tutors is the answer. I'm skeptical... 🧵
gt.dad (@gtdad) profile picturegt.dad
@gtdad12 May 2025
*The* pedagogical problem of schooling—(insofar as schooling is a serious endeavor at all)—is homogeneity of instruction across 20ish very different students. This is an intrinsic feature of the age-old teacher-in-front-of-classroom model, made worse by modern equity frameworks.
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You can't just plop a box of Montessori materials in your local public school and suddenly have a bunch of kindergartners learning 3rd grade math. So I'm betting it will require both new tech and new school structures to get kids to CARE.
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It's tough, but I'm hopeful that startups like @primer (in a position to reinvent school structures and develop tech) and @synthesischool (the only(?) ed-tech that has figured out how to make kids CARE) will figure it out before my kids are age out of the Montessori magic.
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Fewer farmers but more chefs
Tom Blomfield (@t_blom) profile pictureTom Blomfield
@t_blom30 Mar 2025
Software engineers are highly-paid farmers, tending their crops by hand. We just invented the combine harvester. The world is going have a lot more food and a lot fewer farmers in very short order.
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As a father of a kindergarten math learner, I have to ask that we keep the penny. The negative seignorage is subsidizing an invaluable pedagogical tool.
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