Have you seen Mark Rober's lidar video?
https://youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ?si=55HZk9Wn6MHLclXU
On 3/18/25 2:12 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
All this talk about immigration and displacement of jobs of "native" workers.
It will be nothing compared what happens in a few more generations of AI. I expect
semi-trucks slamming into AI centers in a few years. Humans are done.
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To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Courtesy
As a forcing structure, they can re-tune it to a different frequency or mode.
But a dominant element of capitalism is to externalize costs (and internalize
profits). So as long as there's a cost sink like mother earth, they can
maintain the current mode. As that sink clogs and fills, they either need other
sinks (Mars!) or they'll have to switch to a mode that involves some
reciprocity within the proletariat, pit one against the other in a way that
allows them to invisibly harvest the remainder. So while Bob and Alice
tit-for-tat each other, the wealthy act like Visa and take a (maybe very small)
portion of each transaction.
They still need a source for new Bobs and Alices, though: Pro-Natalism! And
there's still the practical issue of growing them and keeping them alive. But
advances in big tech can do that. Soylent, a baby formula for adults ... maybe
grow 'em smaller. We don't need the proletariat to be as tall as the bougies.
And the only reason they're so fat now is because we haven't gotten the formula
for Soylent optimized yet. We'll get there.
On 3/18/25 1:41 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
Glen writes:
< And the ultra-wealthy *know* this. They spam us with bullshit
(X/Twitter/LLMs), surround our cities with below-cost box stores to
destroy businesses, destroy unions, lobby legislators up and down the spectrum,
etc.
They do this because they *know* we're resource poor. And we're
approaching the point where none of us can afford to be courteous ...
or at least we don't think we can afford it because our values and
priorities have been so bent by the forcing structure they've trapped
us in. >
What's the long-term win for the ultra-wealthy? If much of the
population can't earn enough money to survive, they won't be very good
consumers.
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