Back at my first engineering job, our management offloaded all drafting work to a company in India.

Their work was so bad we had to manually check and edit everything they delivered, and when all was said and done, the final products were pretty shitty. But it was so much cheaper that that was just how things were. AI is going to be the same thing.

high-assurance software development is going to be driven into the ground soon enough

AI is totally from Satan. I don't care if you believe in Satan and his demons or not, He is real and has spent your entire lifetime to winning your soul the last day you are alive in this life.

AI is the closest pathetic attempt at being all knowing as God is. Quantum computing and AI is fancy guessing what you will do in the future but God already knows this. Satan has wanted what God has from the very beginning.

It's nothing to play with especially if you don't put everything through the lens of Heaven and Hell, God and Satan, Spiritual and Physical.

We have all been lied to from birth about a great many things including some of our history. It's a great deception!

AI is lowering the bar for code quality the world over.

The massive deflation it created in our economy allowed governments to swell into monsters creating intense amount of inflation. This lead us to be even more dependent and addicted to tech because we had to be even more productive.

Vicious cycle that did not have to happen.

What do you think the world will be like 50 years from now, in the 2070s?

And specifically, what kind of tech do you think will surprise to the upside by that time, and become pretty dominant or ubiquitous? And what tech do you think will underperform expectations, and not exist at the scale that people now might’ve guessed would be common by then?

I agree. Romans 13 is seriously the most depressing chapter in the Bible for Christian libertarians like me. The bit about being subject to earthly authorities and whatnot….. ☹️

Deflation impoverishes the rich because they have 12 times more debt than regular people and the debt gets bigger.

Inflation, meanwhile, impoverishes everybody else.

Guess who the Fed caters to 🤔

Cognitive dissonance in one sense, but I think there is something else. There is more than one cohort who are interested in Bitcoin. The transhumanists etc. are ideologically committed to technology. They have a fetish for technological solutions to problems real or imagined. Bitcoiners like myself are often very sceptical of technology, but have come to the conclusion that Bitcoin is one of those rare moments—like the discovery of the wheel—that a huge impediment to human progress can now be overcome.

Embarrassing what we have let our countries turn into.

The Atlanta Fed’s estimator for Q1 GDP growth, which gets updated based on various economic reports as they roll in, currently looks like a cartoon:

Every morning, as the sun rises, for 45 minutes or an hour. Coffee and a book and a pencil.

I'm actually finally methodically getting through books for the first time in a while rather than bouncing around between a few at once at random times.