Pygmalion
235 posts
@tailpygmalion
Aspiring SuperVillain
Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.
Hard to fight communism when you yourself are a communist
Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.
JUST IN: Elon Musk proposes universal "high income" to deal with unemployment caused by AI
This Gen Z said she was gonna start a bootcamp to teach millennials social media “etiquette” & baby they have been dragging her to the pits of hell so badly for weeks that she had to private her account and disappear like Nancy Guthrie. She hasn’t been seen or heard from since 😭
this is exactly why I moved back to china and I genuinely think most people reading this from the west have no idea what it actually feels like to build here the thing about shenzhen that changed everything for me is the access, makerspaces everywhere open to anyone, components available in any quantity at any hour, hardware meetups and deeptech demo nights happening every single day where founders show up with actual physical prototypes & get torn apart by engineers who’ve been shipping products for 20y +++ investor sessions where VCs ask about your thermal dissipation strategy before they ask about yourt revenue, the density of ambitious people building physical things in one city is something I’ve never experienced anywhere else on earth and the education pipeline feeding all of this is staggering, chinese kids start building robots & programming microcontrollers in middle school as part of the national curriculum by high school they’re doing projects in machine vision& embedded systems tsinghua, USTC & zhejiang these universities produce researchers who go from publishing a paper to founding a startup with gov backed seed funding in a matter of months… the pipeline from fundamental research to applied engineering to company creation is seamless here in a way that would make any european researcher cry and what most people in the west completely miss is the role of the tech giants as ecosystem builders, juawei alibaba, tencent & baidu are operating as deeptech accelerators at a scale that has 0 equivalent in the west huawei alone runs the ascend AI ecosystem where they give hardware startups access to their custom AI chips their toolchains& their cloud infrastructure for free or near free so founders can build on top of chinese silicon instead of depending on NVIDIA alibaba’s academy funds and incubates in quantum computing chip design and autonomous driving then plugs them directly into alibaba cloud’s customer base & tencent invests in robotics companies and connects them to its manufacturing partners these aren’t passive financial investors writing checks from SF, they’re active ecosystem architects who provide silicon compute distribution channels & manufacturing access in a single integrated package Q1 numbers that just dropped tell the whole story, 5% GDP growth driven almost entirely by hightech manufacturing, integrated circuit production up 49.4% in a single quarter under maximum US sanctions, electronic materials up 32.5%, lithium battery output up 40.8%… the 4 AI chip startups they call the « four dragons» moore threads, metaX, biren & enflame all going public simultaneously valued at billions, huawei rolling out a 3y roadmap to overtake NVIDIA & the deeptech VCs here write checks with a technical depth I’ve rarely seen anywhere these are people who read your papers who understand your architecture at the gate level who challenge your engineering choices on EMI coupling & power stage layout before they even look at your market I genuinely think think the sanctions have been the greatest unintentional R&D program in history, they forced China to build in 5y what would have taken 20 without them, and now the country is sitting on a self sufficient semiconductor ecosystem, a dominant position in clean energy tech, a manufacturing base that operates like a collective intelligence network and an education system that produces millions of engineers who see building physical things as the highest form of ambition meanwhile the west is spending trillions on a war in the middle east and debating whether AI needs another ethics committee I know where I want to be and it’s here ft.com/content/f2b53a…
