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When jobs get automated through technology, the displacement causes upheaval, but eventually most of the affected people move to other areas of employment. If you automate people, then there is no other work.
In the future, new jobs we can't yet imagine will be created, but AI will be able to do those jobs better than any human can retrain. There is a fundamental difference with this change that we are not talking about enough; we are attempting to replace intelligence. That encapsulates logic, planning, learning, reasoning, the whole human gambit. We are attempting to create something which is on par with humans at a cognitive level and eventually surpasses it. This isn't so much a new technology but an attempt to create our general ability as humans.
From a job's perspective, AI won't just replace certain jobs; it will replace humans themselves.
History is littered with examples of inflection points where we fall into these new paradigm shifts rather than plan towards them, which usually ends up causing extreme hardship for the majority. We can't afford to wait until time horizons narrow enough that actions are reactive, but instead, we need to be proactive now.
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Some fields work in theory but not in practice. Some fields work in practice but not theory.
The uniqueness of economics is that it works in neither theory nor practice.
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"The price of progress in capitalism is inequality."
"We should therefore focus on taxing capital rather than labor, and we should use these taxes as an opportunity to directly distribute ownership and wealth to citizens." - Sam Altman @sama
moores.samaltman.com
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Putin : 73 years old
Trump : 79 years old
Netanyahu : 76 years old
Narendra Modi : 75 years old
Xi Jinping : 72 years old
Khamenei : 86 years old
All of them have lived their lives and witnessed their peaks already. The next generation wants peace and growth, not World War 3
The world needs young leaders now
Dear Europe, America’s having second thoughts about its French-sounding genius called Claude. Could we offer asylum and a decent healthcare plan?
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What an iconic shot.
Finding pleasure in the *process* of high pressure competition, rather than the win itself, is the key to lasting success.
It’s really hard to experience both relaxed joy AND elite performance at the same time, but she nailed it.
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Take Irelands name out of your mouth when you want to rationalize white supremacy. The Irish didn’t come to America to share their culture. They came fleeing destitution and starvation in their homeland, courtesy of the kind of imperial power you now fetishize. We don’t forget.
The algo feed is insane. I like one cool Dostoevsky quote and now I can’t escape the Russian despair industrial complex. wtf
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Founder of @signalapp, @moxie Marlinspike on Telegram:
"Telegrams not a private messenger. There's nothing private about it. It's the opposite. It's a cloud messenger where every message you've ever sent or received is in plain text in a database that telegram the organization controls and has access to it"
"It's like 'Russian oligarch starts unencrypted version of WhatsApp', a pixel for pixel clone of WhatsApp. That should be kind of a difficult brand to operate. And somehow, they've done a really amazing job of convincing the whole world that this is an encrypted messaging app and that the founder is some kind of Russian dissident, even though he goes there once a month, the whole team lives there, and their families are there."
" What happened in France is they just chose not to respond to the subpoena. And so that's in violation of the law. And, he gets arrested in France, right? And everyone's like, oh, France, but I think the key point is they have the data, like they can respond to the subpoenas where as Signal, for instance, doesn't have access to the data and couldn't respond to that same request. To me it's very obvious that Russia would've had a much less polite version of that conversation with Pavel Durov and the telegram team before this moment. "
When did all this vibes, aesthetic, intuition talk suddenly dominate culture so hard? Gen-Z seem like ground zero from where it has buzzed in the background but feels like it has seeped out hard into a wider sphere. This article is good but the language typifies what I mean.
I noticed an analogy between how some friends of mine are working, in a little apartment above a bakery, and how Anthropic engineers seem to be working, in a great big building with a bakery in it, and I noticed some similarities. No. Not the bakery. Why would you think that.
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Goosebumps! People often ask, is Shakespeare still relevant? Here is a great example, from the Steven Colbert Show, in which Sir Ian McKellen delivers an extraordinary speech. Shakespeare’s words are timeless, urgent and important.
#Shakespeare #ianmckellen #stevencolbert
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BREAKING: My discovery could bring down the $100B company Starbucks
As someone who isn't a barista, I'm now able to vibe brew at home without the need to pay Starbucks $120/month
Thread on the death of CaaS (Coffee as a Service):
Good piece which expands on these ideas although its a particularly grim direction of travel outlined (For Humans) scimitar.capital/p/state-of-…
The thing MoltBook showed me that I haven't seen much chatter about is how easy it is to spin up a reddit alternative or any social network. The major barrier has traditionally been a critical mass of users which you can now artificially create.
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Endorsing a nepotistic aspiring dictator with preposterously ignorant stands on economic and international policies and who praises other authoritarians is clearly, *clearly* not the best way to promote meritocracy, peace, prosperity, and free expression.
Look, reasonable people can have divergent opinions on the best ways to approach issues like regulations, economic policy, and social policies, *while* being respectful of democratic principles.
But one simply cannot throw democracy and competent governance out the window just because one wants lower taxes and less regulation.
