That was a nice summary! You must spend a sick amount of time on these writeups! Also found the summary of what DocuSign does fascinating. Since they have gone from 7,000,000 to 7000 employees, I think it's now a buy!!
Thank you for including the piece from Brad about sports culture. American parents don't realize how brainwashed our culture is about kids sports because it just seems normal, we are all used to it. But kids actually like doing stuff and learning if it isn't regimented and strict and run by adults who yell at them all the time.
I had no idea about the under-13 Norway sports rules. Honestly kinda genius...especially i read that book "Range" about how speciliazing in sports too early is not a good move
So many people are upset about the Citrinni piece, often dismissing it as SF writing. It is not science fiction, even though the idea of advanced AIs reshaping society has been explored in science fiction for at least a century.
The simple truth is that most people cannot imagine a future where humans no longer need to work and material needs are met by AIs and their robotic labor. People interpret the future through the structure of the present. People who have invested their lives in the current economic model, and who have achieved status or success within it, become defensive stakeholders in preserving it. As a result, they instinctively dismiss arguments that suggest a radically different system, even when technological trends point in that direction and the shift could arrive far sooner than most expect.
In 15-20 years, perhaps sooner, I think it likely that an AI will be in charge, either by voter choice or self-proclamation and most/all work will be done by machines/AI or automated away.
Robots of all shapes and sizes will do almost all work better than humans. Politicians will be remembered like powdered wigs on judges, a note from past history. The concept of individual countries, national borders and multiple languages will have disappeared.
Money will have vanished because what’s the point of currency when machines can produce everything needed in limitless abundance?
This isn’t a fantasy; it’s the natural endgame of where our technology is taking us. The future won’t look like today or yesterday. Iain M. Banks described it decades ago in his SF Culture novels: a post-scarcity civilization where human struggling over work, power and survival becomes irrelevant.
Those who think society will keep limping along with the same constant political in-fighting, the same concerns with employment or lack thereof and the same focus on backward-looking economic statistics to drive us forward, the same wars, are deluding themselves.
This old order is fast dying, It’s just that those who continue to tout this obsolete business, economic, political and life model haven’t realized it yet!
Skillfully summed up. Key takeaway is that no one really knows where are headed. Fascinating times. Time to go open a restaurant or a gas station XD
Thanks for the read, Kashev!
That was a nice summary! You must spend a sick amount of time on these writeups! Also found the summary of what DocuSign does fascinating. Since they have gone from 7,000,000 to 7000 employees, I think it's now a buy!!
Appreicate the read, Mark! That Docusign 99% headcount reduction was wild lol
Re: time on writeups. I am, unfortunately, very very online. Basically just have a running doc of good tweets.
Great read, I feel educated and amused. The great AI war is beginning. Also going to start using the term Bear Porn around the family dinner table
Thanks for the read, John!
"Bear Porn around the dinner table" hahahahha...not investment advice!
Thank you for including the piece from Brad about sports culture. American parents don't realize how brainwashed our culture is about kids sports because it just seems normal, we are all used to it. But kids actually like doing stuff and learning if it isn't regimented and strict and run by adults who yell at them all the time.
Appreciate the read Nicholas!
I had no idea about the under-13 Norway sports rules. Honestly kinda genius...especially i read that book "Range" about how speciliazing in sports too early is not a good move
This was great as always.
Slight correction - it's *Zvi Mowshowitz (former MTG pro and overall genius)
thanks for the read! Updated.
So many people are upset about the Citrinni piece, often dismissing it as SF writing. It is not science fiction, even though the idea of advanced AIs reshaping society has been explored in science fiction for at least a century.
The simple truth is that most people cannot imagine a future where humans no longer need to work and material needs are met by AIs and their robotic labor. People interpret the future through the structure of the present. People who have invested their lives in the current economic model, and who have achieved status or success within it, become defensive stakeholders in preserving it. As a result, they instinctively dismiss arguments that suggest a radically different system, even when technological trends point in that direction and the shift could arrive far sooner than most expect.
In 15-20 years, perhaps sooner, I think it likely that an AI will be in charge, either by voter choice or self-proclamation and most/all work will be done by machines/AI or automated away.
Robots of all shapes and sizes will do almost all work better than humans. Politicians will be remembered like powdered wigs on judges, a note from past history. The concept of individual countries, national borders and multiple languages will have disappeared.
Money will have vanished because what’s the point of currency when machines can produce everything needed in limitless abundance?
This isn’t a fantasy; it’s the natural endgame of where our technology is taking us. The future won’t look like today or yesterday. Iain M. Banks described it decades ago in his SF Culture novels: a post-scarcity civilization where human struggling over work, power and survival becomes irrelevant.
Those who think society will keep limping along with the same constant political in-fighting, the same concerns with employment or lack thereof and the same focus on backward-looking economic statistics to drive us forward, the same wars, are deluding themselves.
This old order is fast dying, It’s just that those who continue to tout this obsolete business, economic, political and life model haven’t realized it yet!