Important note from Jack. Tell yourself this every single morning.

Rights aren’t given, they’re taken. nostr:note1a7te2kjz9d9tl089ff3pmq6znzlkujnctel2sxrvzwsfu7gv9rlqu6rnkg

So far, I only hear physically weak, low testosterone people screeching about DOGE. Women, soy boys, and the elderly.

Growing up, my mom hoped I'd convert to a coffee drinker.

I traveled with a pastor and my mom jokingly asked him to influence me.

Eh, after about a year of me being on his team traveling about once a month, he took a break from coffee 😅

Then I worked as a substitute teacher for a bit, also a super heavy coffee culture and lots of people convert there. Nope, still not for me.

Then I worked at a church for a while, another high coffee consumption place, still nothing.

Then I worked nights at a hotel... the day staff kept being surprised how much energy I had in the mornings, still without having had any coffee!

Now I'm married to someone who likes coffee, and my mom has handed over the reins, hoping that maybe at least my husband would be able to convert me.

I have tried his coffee sometimes, (TINY sips) and I have to admit that it doesn't have as big of a negative effect on me as it did before, but still not for me.

Then I tried his mocha once, and it was better, but still had that awful aftertaste.

However, the Starbucks peppermint mocha cut the aftertaste, so I have had one of those, once! And I finished all 12 oz!

However, those are super expensive so I would not consider myself converted yet! 😎🤣

The first week off alchohol after drinking regularly for years is enlightening. The chemicals are all out of wack, i feel like a different person. Not better per say, just different. even a bit down to the lack of constant dopamine injections. Didn’t realize how strong of an effect it’s been having on me.

Dont make the mistake of not recognizing these are the same kinds of people who elected Adolph Hitler. nostr:note1jj4lapjxm5uwc60cheege20eewrc5cuxatw5lf96sykjr6sr7q5qzx073w

Seeing a bunch of whining federal employees on LinkedIn that have been let go from their cushy jobs. Always good to have a backup plan no matter how secure you think your job is.

When it comes to AI, philosophical people often ask "What will happen to people if they lack work? Will they find it hard to find meaning in such a world of abundance?"

But there is a darker side to the question, which people intuit more than they say aloud.

In all prior technological history, new technologies changed the nature of human work but did not displace the need for human work. The fearful rightly ask: what happens if we make robots, utterly servile, that can outperform the majority of humans at most tasks with lower costs? Suppose they displace 70% or 80% of human labor to such an extent that 70% or 80% of humans cannot find another type of economic work relative to those bots.

Now, the way I see it, it's a lot harder to replace humans than most expect. Datacenter AI is not the same as mobile AI; it takes a couple more decades of Moore's law to put a datacenter supercomputer into a low-energy local robot, or it would otherwise rely on a sketchy and limited-bandwidth connection to a datacenter. And it takes extensive physical design and programming which is harder than VC bros tend to suppose. And humans are self-repairing for the most part, which is a rather fantastic trait for a robot. A human cell outcompetes all current human technology in terms of complexity. People massively over-index what robots are capable of within a given timeframe, in my view. We're nowhere near human-level robots for all tasks, even as we're close to them for some tasks.

But, the concept is close enough to be on our radar. We can envision it in a lifetime rather than in fantasy or far-off science fiction.

So back to my prior point, the darker side of the question is to ask how humans will treat other humans if they don't need them for anything. All of our empathetic instincts were developed in a world where we needed each other; needed our tribe. And the difference between the 20% most capable and 20% least capable in a tribe wasn't that huge.

But imagine our technology makes the bottom 20% economic contributes irrelevant. And then the next 20%. And then the next 20%, slowly moving up the spectrum.

What people fear, often subconsciously rather than being able to articulate the full idea, is that humanity will reach a point where robots can replace many people in any economic sense; they can do nothing that economicall outcomes a bot and earns an income other than through charity.

And specifically, they wonder what happens at the phase when this happens regarding those who own capital vs those that rely on their labor within their lifetimes. Scarce capital remains valuable for a period of time, so long as it can be held legally or otherwise, while labor becomes demonetized within that period. And as time progresses, weak holders of capital who spend more than they consume, also diminish due to lack of labor, and many imperfect forms of capital diminish. It might even be the case that those who own the robots are themselves insufficient, but at least they might own the codes that control them.

Thus, people ultimately fear extinction, or being collected into non-economic open-air prisons and given diminishing scraps, resulting in a slow extinction. And they fear it not from the robots themselves, but from the minority of humans who wield the robots.

Let’s make a deal.

You say something true below and I zap you 615 sats.

Funny how the people sitting closest to the money printer are the biggest #Bitcoin haters. Must be hard to watch your scam get exposed.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. #Bitcoin

The wife and I are looking for something wild to watch…

What’s the most mind-bending movie you’ve ever seen?

Doing > learning

Believe it or not, i have never looked at onlyfans. Im realizing thats kinda rare. I just have much more interesting things to do.

Yeah he used a bunch of bad words and the account got taken down

NO NOT TRUE. Deception