Kyle

One of Thiel’s best insights is that companies that are true monopolies will do everything to avoid telling the public that. They will minimise themselves. They will tell us that they are not a monopoly to avoid scrutiny. On the other hand, companies that aren’t, or don’t have defensible markets, will do everything to project the opposite—to brand themselves publicly as monopoly-like powers. A lot to reflect here in the OpenAI/Anthropic narratives. It’s not exactly the same, but the permanent underclass language, the grandiosity, the ‘AI will take all your jobs’ seems close to Thiel’s second category. What’s frightening is how far they’ve taken it, seemingly without considering the weight of their words, and how it’s now putting their lives at risk. I felt Sam’s pain reading that blog post. It’s especially sad to consider that, if Thiel is right, they’ve frightened the public into taking these kinds of actions for a marketing lie.

Serious question: Did religion make people stupid, or does it work because people are stupid?

3 hour poll: How long before Melania leaves Donald?

Beyond The Horizon So with the mass roll out of Mandroids on the way I did some thinking about what we're actually looking at here. So keep in mind that the other day Elon hits the update button and suddenly all the teslas can now be self driving taxis. Meaning that the rollout of the mandroids will be slow and goofy at first but then they will gather and share unfathomable amounts of data and all will become better at every task in real time. If you think a job can't be automated a mandroid will follow you around until it can replicate your work. Now here's the more important thing. As we automate away the repetitive tasks and even the coding and creative work with robotic factories, 3D printing, and products made with self assembling nanobots, we will approach something like a post scarcity society. Not fully post scarcity because scarcity is a psychological phenomenon as well as a physical one. But, my concern is that with human labor deprecated by automation we will experience a society wide capital freeze as incomes dry up. Then comes the UBI. But how is anyone meant to build wealth when our markets have operated off of human driven labor providing utility since the first human sharpened a stick? Essentially we aren't evolved for this. Our society isn't evolved for this. So are we going to all just be locked in whatever socioeconomic level we are in right now while the Uber rich live like Gods with all the land and medical and life extension technologies? The economy is going to switch from physical labor to people selling shitty art, music, and poetry to each other? And what about all the new found spare time? You're high if you think people will suddenly pursue hobbies, they're going to get more intoxicated and more politically and socially extreme. The background level of generalized human rage won't go away just because people have lots of stuff. And there will be lots of nuts willing to give people that meaning and purpose they so need and desire. So there will be an increase in irrational social justice movements, traditional religious extremism, and new weird fragmented identity groups. Not to mention the sex robots. So it seems like the future looks more like Altered Carbon than Star Trek. It's weird to write about these things in an increasingly less abstract way as AI ascends, cars drive themselves, and mandroids are coming sooner than you think.

I have read the San Francisco Chronicle’s account and I am deeply distressed by its allegations. This woman was brave to come forward, and we should take her story seriously. I am withdrawing my endorsement immediately, and believe that he should withdraw from the race.

OMG. They broke the baseball bat during the unveiling of Ichiro Suzuki's statue at T-Mobile Park. 😂😂😂

How out of control is our govt spending? Individual income taxes + corp income taxes will be about $3 trillion in 2026. We will spend $1.3 trillion in interest payments on the $39 trillion national debt. 43% of all income taxes ... goes to interest payments on the debt. The other big pieces of the govt revenue is collecting social security taxes, which just pass through to social security recipients. Within the next few years we will reach the point where interest on the national debt is consuming 50% of all individual and corporate income taxes collected. And our annual budget deficits at $2 trillion to $3 trillion per year and making the problem worse. If the debt grows faster than the US economy, then eventually the interest payments consume all of the tax revenue. We are entering a debt doom loop, where we have to borrow more and more just to pay for government to function.

BREAKING: A Molotov cocktail was thrown at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home, per FOX