Ryan Amato

@kl85412270 @teixeiramark25 Not helping the average joe too much relative to owners of capital

@RyanTheMato @teixeiramark25 Trump has brought literally trillions in investments into the country, commitments to build mufacturing here, tax cuts to millions. Pretty solid place to start.

I had the pleasure traveling this country for fourteen years during my career in Major League Baseball. Early on, I loved visiting Seattle and would spend hours before every game just walking the streets and exploring—it was my favorite road trip. Years of liberal policies ruined this city, by the end of my career (2016), I was saddened to see what it had become. It’s only gotten worse since then—Democratic leadership is destructive, not just in Seattle but cities all over this great nation. VOTE RED in November and stop the socialist takeover of America. foxnews.com/media/seattle-…

@Celiksei @Dr_Singularity Robot police suppression perhaps

Never underestimate the extraordinary extremes human greed can reach. There’s a substantial number of people in the world who see AGI exclusively as a means of eliminating labor to maximize value and consolidate wealth, on the gamble some order mechanism will prevent societal collapse.

Retirement Dead If you're under 50, there's no point in financial planning for your "retirement." The concept of retirement as we know it know won't exist in 15–20 years. You’ll live comfortably whether you worked and saved for 40 years or were a bum living on the street, abundance will be so great that no one will be left behind. Some form of UBI will likely arrive well before 15–20 years. What we call 'retirement' today is built on scarcity, on the assumption that you need decades of labor just to secure a few decades of rest. That model will start to break down once productivity is driven by systems that can operate at a scale and speed far beyond human limits(robotics driven by AGI's/ASI's). When output becomes effectively abundant, the idea of "earning the right to stop working" stops making sense. Work itself won't disappear, but it will become fluid, and driven more by interest than necessity. The line between working, learning, and living will blur. Instead of saving for a distant endpoint, people will navigate continuous access to resources, services, and opportunities.

@jayvanbavel Given the trajectory of past few centuries, one needs to have a bit of illogical faith to see how climate change plays out in a positive way this century. Despite best efforts, temperatures climb, economies grow, populations expand, militaries invade, resources dwindle.

There are very serious downsides to doomerism. It might be fun to get engagement on social media, but the reward system there does not apply very well to the things that drive real policy change or behavior. We should be very wary about leaning on doomerism when the same set of facts can be conveyed in a more powerful message. This has been well known for some time in the persuasion literature. Messages that appeal to our fears (known as fear appeals) are only really effective when they increase a sense of efficacy and focus on one-time behaviors. Alas, the doom and gloom messages on climate change often undercut a sense of efficacy and require repeated, long term habit change. Does this mean we should avoid sharing the scientific facts about climate change? No, not at all. In fact, the message about scientific consensus was more effective than negative emotions on every single measure in our study—except sharing on social media. In short, people are highly responsive to scientific messages when they are framed in the right way. powerofusnewsletter.com/p/the-best-way… Do fear appeals motivate you? If not, why?

@PeterDiamandis We have already created abundance it just isn't distributed all that well. We're more productive than ever yet so many still suffer. Distribution is harder to solve than endless material creation.

A humanoid robot will cost us $30K and works 24/7 for $0.40/hour. A solar panel generates electricity for 3 cents/kWh. What exactly is the argument that we CAN'T create abundance?

@r0ck3t23 Good bc I just had my first kid after 20 years of working til exhaustion and I'm ready to play with him and teach him and love him without the constant worry of losing money. So when will the transition happen?

Elon Musk just named the single variable that will decide the next hundred years. It is not compute. It is not capital. It is not the chip. Musk: “Nothing will make you happier than having kids. We’ve evolved to have that, as all creatures have.” The consensus says this century belongs to whoever stacks the most GPUs. Musk is pointing at something the spreadsheets will never quantify. Look at the West. Birth rates are in freefall. Below replacement. Below recovery. Not because people stopped wanting families. Because the modern economy turned families into a math problem no one could solve. Rent took two incomes. Careers swallowed your twenties and thirties whole. Biology became a scheduling conflict you kept postponing until the window closed. A whole generation traded the continuation of their bloodline for the privilege of staying solvent. AI is about to shatter that equation permanently. When machines do the labor, your time stops being currency. The grind that ate your life ends. The moment it does, a question arrives that no algorithm can answer. If you no longer need to work to survive, what exactly is the point of you? Musk handed you the answer before the question landed. When survival is automated, you finally get the runway to do what four billion years of evolution actually built you for. Now zoom out. America is locked in an existential technology race with China over the future of intelligence itself. But China is staring down something no supercomputer can fix. The most catastrophic demographic collapse any modern nation has ever seen. A workforce aging off a cliff with no generation underneath to catch it. You do not win a long war against a country that runs out of people. The real American moat was never the chip. It was the cradle. We are racing to build superintelligence that secures the future. But a country without heirs is just a building with the lights still on. Spend the AI dividend on digital sedation and civilization dies quietly on schedule. Spend it on being human again and the West becomes physically impossible to replace. The machines will run the grid. They will route the supply chains. They will win the arms race. They will never love you back. We spent a century outsourcing our humanity to the economy. Artificial intelligence is about to buy it back. The nation that owns the future will not be the one that builds the most powerful intelligence in history. It will be the one that builds it and then walks away from the screen to go hold its children.

@antibearthesis I see it as a basic physics problem. If we don't solve (or put a dent) in global emissions, nothing really matters second half of my life. Thus, placing large bets on efforts to decarbonize makes a ton of sense to me. We either decarbonize or we decompose.

Unpopular opinion: $TSLA is the most overvalued stock on earth Last 3 years performance: - 0% revenue CAGR - Constant earnings misses - Profit margin 15% → 3% - 50,000 unsold cars Meanwhile: P/E has gone from 34x to 365x Same company, 10x multiple What am i missing?

⁦@Yankees⁩ #PinstripePride baby Luca

@CNN Doesn't count if you don't have to hold off taking a dump for that long

A humanoid robot won a half-marathon in Beijing in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, finishing faster than Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo's world record. Read more: cnn.it/4dWXNC6

@BeTheChange1980 @cb_doge @grok Don't we already live with those risks today and it's much more comfortable for the average Joe?

Abundance of goods means nothing without resilience of the systems behind them. @grok In a post-scarcity economy, what are the highest-risk single points of failure in physical infrastructure (energy, water, food systems), and how concentrated is control over them likely to become?

"Things will just be free in the future. Sounds nuts, but if you've got an AI or robotics economy that is anywhere close to million times the size of the current Earth economy, literally any need you possibly want can be met. If you can think of it, you can have it" 一 Elon Musk

@BJChippindale @IsabellaMWeber @NewStatesman Smarter, wiser, more ethical people should run government but they lack the cunningness, political savvy, and ability to lie, cheat, steal, and kill required for running governments and nobody is going to hand them the keys.

@RyanTheMato @IsabellaMWeber @NewStatesman Not sure that is a certainty. I believe it depends on the human's "time horizon." Environmental pain? We store wood and fuel for winter. Society evolved with that standard. Most CEOs see the next 3 months. Most Greens think in generations or centuries. Who should run government?

The world energy shock is coming — it will deepen inequality in ways we've seen before. Our new @newstatesman piece argues that without urgent government action, the Strait of Hormuz crisis will ripple through our economies and rip apart our societies. Here's why. 1/

@YankeeWRLD Me on dating apps vs. me married

And then there’s Bo Naylor’s height, in the span of 1 year:

@AndrewYang study hard, work hard, invest all you possibly can into our AI overlord corporations such that your net worth rises exponentially even after you get fired...also pray for UBI

The Fuckening of white-collar workers has arrived. blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-end-of-t…

@RGIII Clearly a ball on replay but close enough in the moment for acceptable margin of human error. I've been watching late 90s/early 2000s highlights and the zones were ridiculously large back then. No umpire is perfect but I don't want robots running the game/world.

Dear baseball fans, this is a Safe Space. The USA and Dominican Republic just had one of the best baseball games of all time. Was this a ball or strike?

@chamath Why did those geniuses hire that 50% if they did nothing? Work harder softees.

What if AI doesn’t need to show an immediate ROI but instead is the plausible deniability companies use to RIF 50% of the workforce they already knew did nothing??

@Mattialive79 @typesfast @Scaramucci people are tired of the endless war machine mission while society crumbles from within and people can't afford healthcare or rent

@typesfast @Scaramucci It’s mind boggling how much you people are rooting against us. You genuinely would rather see this mission be a failure ultimately putting American lives in danger just to be able to say that President Trump fu cked up.

Guys, relax, the only risk in transiting the Strait of Hormuz is that Iran will shoot a missile at your ship. Otherwise it's open for transit. An all-time quote from our Secretary of War.

@Hadas_Gold polls are really just for entertainment tat this point right? No real big decisions considering peasant polls.

Poll after poll shows people don't feel great about AI. This Economist/YouGov poll shows 47% feel AI will have a negative impact on society vs. 16% who think it will be positive yougov.com/en-us/articles…

@RealXBailey @larrybehrens @DanielTurnerPTF Only from a price point perspective but clearly consumers would rather have a $40k model Y than an MB EQS for double the price. Legacy auto has very little to compete with in the $40K EV range bc they started 15 years late.

@RyanTheMato @larrybehrens @DanielTurnerPTF The equivalent Tesla model to the EQS would be the S model which retails for $96k.

Honda joins the billion-dollar EV regret club with up to $15.7B down the drain. Add in Stellantis ($26B), Ford ($19.5B), and GM ($6B), and we're talking ~$67B collectively torched because no one wants glorified golf carts. Reality is undefeated.

@RealXBailey @larrybehrens @DanielTurnerPTF Bc $104k for an EV from a company who never made an EV when Teslas are $35k is ridiculous

@larrybehrens @DanielTurnerPTF And people that bought them are suffering massive depreciation when they sell or trade their EVs. 2022 Mercedes EQS - sold for $104k new. 4 years later, one owner, perfect condition & never wrecked, is worth only $26k. That's an $80k loss in just 4 years!