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Masayoshi Son is the zany founder and CEO of Japan's most dynamic software company, SoftBank. He has allied with Sam Altman in the AI race and is betting $65 billion on OpenAI becoming the most valuable company in the world. Read the new @bismarckanlys Brief (link below):

In the long and cold demographic winter of the late 21st century most countries will develop a similar pattern.

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Masayoshi Son is the zany founder and CEO of Japan's most dynamic software company, SoftBank. He has allied with Sam Altman in the AI race and is betting $65 billion on OpenAI becoming the most valuable company in the world. Read the new @bismarckanlys Brief (link below):

The Lifecycle of an Apocalypse Since 1914, theories have proliferated about how industrial technology would destroy civilization. While the culprits change — climate change, overpopulation, nukes — the structure remains the same. New article by @benlandautaylor (link below):

I just read an excellent article from Palladium. Title: The Lifecycle of an Apocalypse: Since World War I, our society has been convinced that civilization is on the brink of technological apocalypse. The specific technology changes, but the underlying belief has stayed the same. Author: @benlandautaylor . Link: letter.palladiummag.com/p/new-article-…?

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@viriditax Sometimes!

@SamoBurja alas even the best pedigrees reliably produce complete dumbasses

The no-genes people have taken the very questionable assumption that we can simply educate children whatever human stock and sustain our civilization that way.

@SalticidX Yes.

@SamoBurja Blank slate theory has been largely proven wrong, hasn't it?

@goblinpunditry Cheap labor for special interests, that comes with negative externalities for the rest of the economy.

@SamoBurja Nah, it's mostly undertaken for cheap labor

Mass immigration is mostly undertaken for special interests, moral conviction, and political expediency. The economic reasons are rationalizations, that empirically never workout when measured.

Honestly even incentivizing people to work is technically difficult. Money helps but isn't enough, you need some kind of alignment beyond money for even a basic business to work.

I actually do think education is technically difficult, so the institutions matter as do the genes.

This moral program where global wealth redistribution is to be achieved through mass immigration then motivates technocrats who provide economic rationalizations for it as needed.

The moral conviction is something like capitalism in one country, socialism on one planet. People feel it is awful to be born in a terrible poor country, and try their best to work to correct that perceived injustice of birth.

The people who expect AI to end mass immigration will be in for a disappointment. If eliminating the economic rationale would do that, the steam engine would have ended it long before it started. I'm bullish on AI. But am I Admiral Hyman Rickover optimistic? 1957 speech: