Oliver Minshall

@AndreTI @ohlennart Sure there is Trump, Doge, War etc. were in an era of profound and destabilizing hangs

@fraidycat22 @ohlennart I agree there are questions about how this holds up long term, and we need to have conversations about how to make these machine age political structures durable, but in the short term there's little reason to think much would change.

it's funny that we might be closer than ever to all the left's marxist dreams: post-scarcity, end of wage labor, etc. but many of them still won't take AGI seriously. the thing that could actually deliver it. instead it's denial and cope.

@AndreTI @ohlennart Even if we don’t literally starve I don’t want to live in a society controlled by them tbh

@fraidycat22 @ohlennart If the government retains a monopoly on force, currency printing, and taxation, and is still accountable to elections, then people will vote not to starve.

@AndreTI @ohlennart That’s a big if.

@ohlennart Musk's AGI policy is the same as his US AID policy, if you're unable to generate enough income to prevent yourself from dying of HIV or Malaria or starvation, too bad, go die.

@lull_no @impostersyndrum @MorePerfectUS maybe they have medallion debt, maybe the ai powered robot is great at flipping burgers.

@fraidycat22 @impostersyndrum @MorePerfectUS What an insane take. Maybe if driving costs go to zero they can work flipping burgers as fast food demand increases since it can be delivered everywhere for nothing.

NEW: If Waymo gets its way, 2 million workers will be out of work. When Waymo gets a firm hold on a city, wages go down. Some drivers now have to work 12 hours day, 7 days a week just to get by. This isn't inevitable — but Big Tech is spending millions to make you think it is.

@Ed_of_O @impostersyndrum @MorePerfectUS Well if you watch the video, drivers were killings themselves and working 12 hour days not getting better jobs

@fraidycat22 @impostersyndrum @MorePerfectUS Millions of exploited drivers employed by an evil company doing an awful job with zero stability and zero career path that didn't exist a few years ago. So again, why are you perpetuating this exploitation? Just end it already. They need real jobs. Real jobs. Not shit jobs.

@Ed_of_O @impostersyndrum @MorePerfectUS Well it’s relative. Their lives are getting worse now bad a few privileged Waymo employees don’t make up for millions of drivers

@fraidycat22 @impostersyndrum @MorePerfectUS Uber is never gonna give that to them and everyone working at Waymo is paid pretty well for their work.

@impostersyndrum @Ed_of_O @MorePerfectUS It’s not really progress if it results in widespread worker displacement without adequate redress. Progress for whom

@fraidycat22 @Ed_of_O @MorePerfectUS How far back does this go? To the cobbler who had the store before the small bookstore? To the Indians whose land it was? To the Indians who had that land before that? Blank slate anti-progress ideology is insidious and has no rational end

@impostersyndrum @Ed_of_O @MorePerfectUS Obviously new technologies have improved well being but I think we were too quick to cast aside traditional institutions in favor of disruptive hyper efficient mega firms.

@Ed_of_O @impostersyndrum @MorePerfectUS Realistically, most workers displaced by ai will work for large/exploitative companies. I don’t want the companies to survive per se I just want the workers to have dignity

@fraidycat22 @impostersyndrum @MorePerfectUS If you opposed all the underhanded sht Uber did to taxis, which were a decent blue collar job especially for immigrants, then it's dumb to defend their further exploitation. If you wanna strengthen anti-trust law, awesome, do that. But this is an evil company to support.

@Ed_of_O @impostersyndrum @MorePerfectUS No I didn’t. At each step it moves further away from workers and small businesses and I oppose each step.

@fraidycat22 @impostersyndrum @MorePerfectUS So you supported Barnes & Noble putting all small book stores out of business?

@Ed_of_O @impostersyndrum @MorePerfectUS That was bad actually. Brick and mortar booksellers are important institutions. I’m not defending Ubers business practices im defending the dignity of Uber workers.

@fraidycat22 @impostersyndrum @MorePerfectUS I'm not sure. How much did you fight to stop Uber when they were stealing taxicab jobs turning their career into an unstable part-time gig? Defending Uber is like defending Barns & Noble against Amazon. Good riddance.

@serenedoge11 @impostersyndrum @MorePerfectUS Pro tech people should seriously engage with the implications of these technologies rather than just assuming benevolent tech leaders will enact policies to ensure prosperity is equitably shared

@fraidycat22 @impostersyndrum @MorePerfectUS Yes, companies and wealthy shareholders should be taxed to distribute the massive profits from these job automations to the rest of society. That doesn't mean we should oppose Waymo. Leftists need to be sensible on tech policy and not reflexively take anri-progess luddite stances

@serenedoge11 @impostersyndrum @MorePerfectUS The leaders of major ai firms have stated openly that their technologies pose existential risks to humanity and could forever tilt the labor capital balance in favor of capital meanwhile they spend millions to prevent regulations

@impostersyndrum @MorePerfectUS How much structural lowering of low end wages should we accept, with all the social instability and problems that comes with that in return for preventing a car accident? Should alphabet pay anything to offset that?

@MorePerfectUS According to more perfect union, protecting low-skilled jobs is more important than saving tens of thousands of American lives. Quite telling

@mattyglesias But he’s gaining popularity

A lot of leftists talk about Mamdani's political successes as if the problem Democrats have been wrestling with is how to win elections in New York City, but obviously if Ohio voters had the same values and ideas as New Yorkers there would be no problem to discuss.

@GarrisonLovely coming to philly on the book tour?

Writing this has involved sacrifices. Mostly for everyone around me. My new housemate Tara, for instance, feels betrayed. She was told, “Garrison is a lot of fun and throws great parties.” Lies, she said. I'm sorry Tara. I swear I’ll be back (right after a small book tour...).

Nearly 3 years ago, I pitched an essay on AI to Jacobin, which became a cover story, which became a book about the biggest project in history: Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace You—and How to Stop It Preorders w/ @orbooks + @thenation ship in May 🧵

@redraiderman1 jordan, lebron, magic, duncan, shaq

What's your team?