NoCodeWithAI

“UBI” is obviously nowhere near the panacea many of you seem to think it is. The median left-leaning Westerner isn’t angry at Elon Musk because he can buy a million times more groceries than them. They aren’t upset with Palantir because Peter Thiel can afford to eat a thousand burgers to their one. This whole thing is in large part post-material. It’s the hierarchy & subordination they’re uncomfortable with. They feel their dignity is being trampled and their autonomy progressively diminished – rightly or wrongly they feel politically disenfranchised and stripped of a say over the future. Offering a guaranteed food budget and a pod to spend the night in return for further disempowerment is incredibly tone-deaf and should be expected to provoke more, not less, outrage.

when I was young, the worldwide threat was global cooling, and the solution proposed was full communism. then later the threat became global warming, and the solution was full communism. nowadays the threat is AI, and you'll never guess what the solution is. yep, full communism

Tech in SF is characterized by something I can only call the “Dionysian Work Ethic” where people engorge themselves on productivity (or the performance of productivity) with a kind of mania, as if it were wine, women, and song

jesus christ

This message is so devious. Scaring people and then asking the technically clueless bureaucratic U.S. government to impose taxes and regulations that will destroy Anthropic’s upstart competition/startups and slow down AI innovation. Of course, simplistic media types will eat the narrative up.

America leading in open source/open weight AI is crucial. this matters at all levels of the stack from models to harnesses to applications.

The extensive UBI we already have is not resulting in very much hunting, fishing, or herding. In fairness, it is generating quite a lot of criticism.

Every friend I talk to is overworked since AI. Working weekends. Always on their phone prompting. Kinda sad.

AI is freeing people to work as much as they want when unencumbered by previous knowledge gaps and points of friction/frustration. It unlocks latent demand for work.

“Once I don’t have to work I’ll make art and write books” No, you’ll smoke pot and play video games UBI will maximize the Pareto principle, devastating most humans

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