lotta use cases for this zap tech, may build an api
@packym
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Eco’s Ambitious Monetary Experiment Attracts Top Talent
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Eco keeps pulling people I really respect into the Eco-system. Usually a good signal that something special is happening There's something attractive about designing what Annika said "might be the most ambitious monetary experiment on earth."
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Forever Games Redefining Work and AI Integration Society
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I think Asimov's view is more prescient, but that we'll wrap "whatever we wish" in game-like work (or work-like games). According to @mitchlasky
's definition of a Forever Game from Gamecraft with @blakeir
, a lot of us already are. https://
open.spotify.com/episode/10GsRW
exiOT9NhK0CsAKEx?si=7177d55cee0e4937
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New Technologies Will Soon Surpass Current Digital Trends
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Anyway, at some point pretty soon, those day in the life TikToks and NFT trading are going to look pretty quaint. Let the games begin.
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OpenAI explores UBI experiments as AGI approaches workforce transformation
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At some point, we might not *need* to work to make a living. In that Planning for AGI post, @sama wrote that OpenAI's nonprofit could do things like “sponsor the world’s most comprehensive UBI experiment.” https://
openai.com/blog/planning-
for-agi-and-beyond
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UBI as Permanent Stimulus: Reimagining Work and Society
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UBI is ZIRP on steroids rolled up with perma-stimmies. Instead of saying, “Here, you can borrow money for practically nothing but you’ll need to pay us back,” UBI says, “Here, take this money.” What would we do in a world with UBI, where we don't need to work to live?
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Vonnegut vs Asimov: Two Competing Visions of AI Future
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Kurt Vonnegut and Isaac Asimov had two very different visions for that future. Vonnegut: dig holes, and fill them back in. Asimov: Whatever You Wish.
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ZIRP Phenomena: Glimpse Into Wilder Economic Future
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Start taking weird shit more seriously. Like ZIRP Phenomena. What if they're not a one-time aberration, but a glimpse into an even wilder future? https://
notboring.co/p/the-appetizi
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Automation reduces farming jobs, creates abstract new work roles
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The fact is: fewer people need to work to keep everyone alive. 83% of Americans farmed in 1800. It's 1% now. So we keep making up new, more abstract jobs.