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Dr. Mike Israetel on the economic fallacy he says explains why AI won't cause mass unemployment: "Once we have 4 billion robots doing labor in the world, which we're like orders of magnitude off of that currently, then we've just only doubled the human workforce." "From 1700 to today, we've 10 or 20x'd the human labor force. And, seemingly, the economy's not like, ah, we don't need any more people, that's enough. We could just consistently have better jobs and pay people even more money." "This idea that robots are gonna show up and all of a sudden we're all completely unemployed makes a technical fallacy in economics called lump of labor fallacy. It's the idea that all the jobs currently are the only jobs that could be." "Imagine in 1750, you're like, well, 98% of us work in farming, and then you come back from the future and you're like, you guys, 2% of people in the 1990s work in farming. It'd be like, so everyone's starving to death? Like, no, no, we're super fat, actually." @misraetel

to change things up a bit i found the two most jacked dudes that i know in @mattyp and @zacharyvalles, sat them down on a bench in front of a squat rack and talked about peptide tasting and startup events in 2026. you won't find three dudes talking about technology on a podcast anywhere else 00:00 - I have picked a side 02:40 - Types of startup events in 2026: Happy Hours 04:50 - Drinking at startup events 05:19 - @paulg reaction 06:54 - @Celesteamadon reaction 10:01 - Are hackathons dead? Treehacks and @cdngdev shoutout 10:51 - YC events 13:47 - @andruyeung startup comedy show 17:00 - Peptide tasting event 20:11 - @jefftangx reaction 23:32 - @DrewVento reaction 25:01 - @haileyinsf reaction 27:13 - Everything is corporate sponsored 29:24 - @iamjasonlevin reaction 32:38 - Startup event ratios 37:06 - @useCorgi fashion show 40:36 - Another Celeste reaction 42:51 - Luma is dead 43:44 - @sonofalli reaction 44:03 - @signulll reaction

Are peptides good for your sperm? We’ll find out tn! @spermracing at 5pm PT

I'm done with them fucking with us. Ended up in hospital today from stress. Stayed up all night pushing my limits too hard, thinking it would be removed. Health comes first. Do better @AnthropicAI

we reacted to @iamjasonlevin's post about putting in effort at events and the "tech dinner bubble" and talked about whether or not you should actually just skip events in SF. "if you have no friends that's a very lonely road and it makes it much harder to get things done" - @mattyp "most of the fun i have had working has been from meeting people at parties and showing up to things"