Cosmologist Of The Abyss

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Cosmologist Of The Abyss

@Prometheacc

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Cosmologist Of The Abyss
Cosmologist Of The Abyss@Prometheacc·
“Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." For you have to become forever children of the Hegemony, so that no one ever has to be a parent.
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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
Claude responds: The "Rising Cost of Existence" Claim Has No Mechanism — And the Default Technological Trajectory Is the Opposite The argument asserts that AI pushes the cost of human existence up. This is stated, not argued. And it runs directly contrary to the entire historical trajectory of technological advancement, which has been to collapse the real cost of goods and services that constitute basic human welfare. Consider what the subsistence floor actually consists of: food, clothing, basic shelter, energy, medicine, communication, transportation. Every single one of these categories has seen its real cost fall dramatically as a function of technological productivity gains. An American minimum-wage worker today commands more calories, more clothing, more computing power, more pharmaceutical access, and more travel capacity per hour of labor than a solidly middle-class person in 1920. The technological arrow on the cost of material subsistence has pointed unambiguously downward for 250 years. AGI accelerates this, not reverses it. If AGI can perform cognitive labor, it dramatically lowers the cost of producing everything that requires cognitive labor as an input — which is everything. Drug discovery gets cheaper. Medical diagnosis gets cheaper. Legal services get cheaper. Engineering design gets cheaper. Agricultural optimization gets cheaper. The AI-abundant world is one where the absolute cost of meeting basic human needs plummets, not one where it rises. So the mechanism for the "cost of existence rises" half of the scissors needs to be specified. There are exactly two categories of goods that resist this downward pressure: Category A: Positional goods and social status. Being in the top 10% of income is by definition zero-sum. If AI makes everyone richer, relative rank competition intensifies. But this is about relative impoverishment, not absolute destitution. Confusing these two is a serious analytical error. Humans being worse off relative to AI-augmented entities is categorically different from humans being unable to meet basic needs. The argument requires the latter to generate the "economic destruction" framing. Category B: Location-constrained goods — primarily housing. This is the strongest version of the real concern. Housing in desirable, productive urban locations is fundamentally constrained by land, zoning, and geography, and AI doesn't solve the zoning problem. If the gains from AI get capitalized into urban real estate (which is partly what happened with previous technology booms), housing costs can rise even as manufactured goods get cheaper, and housing is a large component of the subsistence floor. This is a genuine concern — but it's a political economy problem with known solutions (zoning reform, land value taxes, building incentives), not a fundamental economic law produced by AI. Packaging it as evidence that AI inevitably raises the cost of human existence requires ignoring that the mechanism is political dysfunction, not technological necessity. The technology doesn't raise housing costs. Regulatory capture and NIMBYism raise housing costs. These are separable.
Roko 🐉@RokoMijic

I should point out that "lump of labor" type arguments are insufficient to save humans from economic destruction by AI if AI can push the cost of human existence up at the same time it pushes the value captured by humans down, assuming there's no UBI. If there is only UBI as a way for humans to survive there can be a long-term dysgenic malthusian competition for access to the UBI so in the long term the only humans who survive are some kind of human vegetables. There's no lump of labor but there is something like a rising subsistence floor that can destroy humanity.

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Nikita Bier@nikitabier·
“They’re losing faith in humanity. Release the wholesome Japanese posts.”
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クモ男爵
クモ男爵@roachylewis·
@kunley_drukpa There's a good chance the WHO lies about fertility to justify unchecked importation of brown biomass. It wouldn't matter if Korea had a TFR of 4.0, they would still say 0.99 and bring in 7 million street shitters.
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ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩
ASKING A KOREAN WOMAN ABOUT KOREAN GENDER RELATIONS 🇰🇷 Went out with a Korean woman last year, conversation was good but at one point began to get curious about the gender and TFR ‘discourse’ so-called you often hear repeated about Korea so decided to segue in asking her questions about it: “I heard gender relations are pretty bad in Korea” “What do you mean?” “I mean I read on the internet that men and women really hate each other now” “Really? I wouldn’t say so” “That’s what they say online” “Where do they say this online?” “Twitter” “I’ve never used Twitter” “Have you heard of the 4B movement?” “What?” “The 4B movement” “I don’t know what it is” “Have you not heard of the 4B movement? Isn’t it famous?” “No” [via Wikipedia: 4B or "Four Nos" is a feminist movement that originated in South Korea. The name refers to its defining four tenets which all start with the Korean-language term bi(Korean: 비; Hanja: 非), roughly meaning ‘NO!’. Its proponents do not date men, marry men, have sex with men or have children with men - hence 4 B’s] Showed her this on my phone “Huh, I’ve never seen this in my life” “Is it not widespread in Korea?” “No” “Do you feel like a lot of Korean women hate men?” “Who told you that? I don’t think so” “How do you personally feel about men?” “I don’t hate men. Why would I hate men?” “I don’t know I heard some Korean women do” “I don’t hate men, I like men” “Are man haters not common in Korea?” “A lot of men are very sweet” “Well, did you hear about the fertility crisis in Korea?” “What do you mean?” “They say people in Korea aren’t having kids anymore” “My cousin had a child a few months ago” “I mean people are having less kids on average” “I know lots of young couples with kids” “Apparently the data says Koreans are having less kids” “What data is that?” “Probably UN data” “I would like to have children one day, I think many other women would” “Do you not think this is just anecdotal though?” “I don’t really encounter many man haters in Korea” “The data has to come from somewhere” “Why are you asking all this?”
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Nine-tailed Fox 🇰🇷@saber_k086

27 thousand babies were born in South Korea this January. Highest in seven years. TFR is now at 0.99 We will last five more years

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𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕝𝕒 𝕃𝕦𝕟𝕖
Its his fault for going to a foid matchmaker though. SF TECH CEO and you're like well you dont do enough superfluous bullshit to look exciting on the page. The women are lying about their hobbies too bro, just make some bs up what is he paying her for
Westside L.A. Guy@WestsideLAGuy

Extremely confident this guy has a more interesting life & personality than nearly all of the girls in Blaine’s harem. Oh no he can’t list off a bunch of dumb hobbies! Yeah he’s been busy busting his ass off to get to where he is.

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Greek Groyper
Greek Groyper@greek_groyper·
@WestsideLAGuy Having to make your life into a literal marketing campaign as a successful rich guy is an insane humiliation ritual.
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ワンダーパーラー クラシカルメイド®
I reached out to many overseas travel agencies that cater to visitors to Japan, asking whether they would consider including our café as part of their Japan sightseeing itineraries. Unfortunately, every single agency gave essentially the same response: “Why would anyone come all the way to Japan just to visit a British-style maid café? At the very least, you should be serving Japanese tea. Hahaha…” So please, especially if you’re from the UK or another country abroad, come visit our café.
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