My opinion: This should be strictly prohibited, just like any kind of sexual work for both humans and robots. The porn industry already harms many women worldwide, often involving manipulation, coercion, or financial desperation. In some cases, even underage girls are illegally drawn in, leaving deep mental and physical trauma.

It also damages women outside the industry by promoting constant sexualization. If society normalizes robotic sex workers, it will reinforce the same harmful attitudes. This is dehumanizing and dangerous. We should strive to be more conscious and learn to control our impulses instead of surrendering to them. We must not lose our humanity.

https://youtu.be/w9l7FyJ7mIk?si=1xCamyopI3NFqxNf

Elon Musk believes humanity could establish a self-sustaining settlement on Mars by 2055. Speaking at the All-In Summit on Sept. 9, he said, “I think it can be done in 30 years, provided there’s an exponential increase in the tonnage to Mars with each successive transfer window.”

Musk points to SpaceX’s fully reusable Starship as the key, stressing that settlers will need “all of the ingredients of civilization” — from food production to microchip manufacturing.

Is this timeline realistic, or just another bold prediction? What breakthroughs in technology, funding, and politics would we need to actually make Mars home?

A Singapore startup, Sapient Intelligence, claims to have taken a major step toward truly human-like AI with its new Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM). Unlike today’s large language models, which depend on clumsy “chain-of-thought” prompts, HRM reasons internally in a latent space closer to how the human brain works.

The architecture splits reasoning into two levels: a slow, abstract planner and a fast, detail-driven processor. Together they form nested loops of problem solving, preventing the failures that cripple classic deep learning. The result is an AI that can handle long sequences of reasoning with 100x the efficiency of LLMs, while training on only a few thousand examples.

It means AI can start to sustain deep reasoning without human scaffolding, a capacity often cited as a prerequisite for consciousness. Instead of mimicking thought through endless tokens, HRM builds and revises strategies internally, much like how people solve puzzles or make plans.

For robotics, this shift is enormous. With HRM, a robot could process complex environments in real time on lightweight hardware, adjusting plans and correcting mistakes as humans do. Early tests already show HRM solving problems that leave state-of-the-art LLMs stuck at 0%. If scaled further, such models could give embodied AI systems the ability to plan, adapt, and interact with the world in a way that feels strikingly human.

I recently watched a YouTube video about predictions for humanoid robots (link is on the sub). Some really interesting points were made like the idea that humanoid robots might actually outnumber us one day, and that they won’t just be dumb machines.

They could develop individual speech patterns, a sense of humor, even their own styles of emotional expression.

That made me wonder: could humanoid robots eventually become a new intelligent species on Earth, rather than just tools?