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.
@packym
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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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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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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-
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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.
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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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AI Bridging Political Divides Through Bipartisan Support
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AI bringing back bipartisanship 🥲 https://t.co/k5ttd5OW9R
— Packy McCormick (@packyM) 26 février 2023AI bringing back bipartisanship
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Four Essential Business Essays from Top Tech Thinkers
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Like the 12 Days of Christmas but business essays instead. We each picked the 4 that had the biggest influence on us. Impossible to choose, but my 4 gems are from: – @Alex_Danco – @benthompson – @samhinkie – @cdixon Give it a listen to fill your reading list.
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Microsoft Should Eliminate Ads, Charge Monthly for Safe AI Search
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This is why $MSFT should do away with ads in search and charge users a monthly fee for a version where Sydney doesn’t expose their dirty laundry or turn them into paper clips. Google would never.
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Modern Tamagotchis: The Evolution of Interactive AI Agents
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Speaking of modern Tomagatchis! https://t.co/MOjJkpz7Bv
— Packy McCormick (@packyM) 22 février 2023Speaking of modern Tomagatchis!