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In a future where most (if not all) productive work is automated, the remaining scarce activity will be human reproduction and child-rearing. The recent comments and initiatives associated with Trump, @MichaelDell, @elonmusk, and @Gwynne_Shotwell can be read as early attempts to re-rank socioeconomic status according to fertility. For the time being these pilot efforts are limited to Americans, which is consistent with treating citizenship itself as a controlled resource. Once that boundary is secured, a second priority becomes deliberate expansion of the American population and its footprint.
At the end of World War II the United States held not only clear productive advantages but a temporary nuclear monopoly. Even under those conditions the arithmetic of welfare costs versus tax revenue was still enough to deter large-scale demographic expansion. In a fully automated economy that arithmetic largely disappears:
The binding constraints shift to land, energy, and political will.
Under those conditions, the people who end up in the largest houses and the most expensive cars will be those positioned to respond to the explicit fertility and expansion incentives that are already being tested.
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He mentioned top speed using Mach instead of MPH. After the car did a McMurtry then flew then topped it off with a sub one second 0 to 60. Elon has clearly been through the simulation at least once already.
At this point, it should be clear to everyone that we live in a simulation, and @elonmusk has been through it at least once.
We announced an agreement to acquire a nationwide low-band spectrum license portfolio that will pave the way for @Starlink to become a major mobile carrier in the US.
With this new spectrum and our Gen2 constellation, Starlink Mobile can ensure Americans have access to high-speed mobile broadband no matter where they are → spacex.com/updates#starlink-…
I hate the term "empty calories" because it misrepresents what calories actually are and vilifies them. Calories are units of energy the body needs, and that's deeply valuable.
Where things go wrong is when someone consumes so many low-nutrient calories that they ignore proper limits and damage their health.
Calories aren't the problem.
I hate the term “suicidal empathy” because it misrepresents what empathy actually is and vilifies it. Empathy is the ability to understand how others think or feel, and that's deeply valuable.
Where things go wrong is when someone has so much compassion for others that they don't set proper boundaries to protect themselves or others because of their immense desire to help. When they sacrifice their own well-being (and their community's) or enable harmful behavior simply because they feel bad for someone or a group. That's the "suicidal" part people are actually referring to.
Empathy isn't the problem.
You can understand why someone behaves the way they do without excusing the behavior or care about someone's suffering without taking responsibility for fixing it. And you can want to help without causing harm.
Blocking replies is what losers do.
Kicking out the free press is what fragile authoritarians do. Not American presidents. instagram.com/reels/DdovJZPT…
It really is that simple.
Back in the late 1800s and early 1900s when millions of immigrants flooded our shores, no paperwork was required to immigrate. No passports, visas, or work permits. Anyone who could afford a ticket could board a ship, arrive in America, answer a few basic questions, and be on their way.
They could stay as long as they wanted, work wherever they wanted, buy property, start businesses, and basically do anything any American citizen could do. In fact, in most states, they could legally vote in local, state, and even national elections, subject to the same poll tax, literacy test, or other qualifications required of American citizens.
If they wanted to naturalize, they just needed to register their intent and were given seven years to complete the paperwork necessary to become American citizens, which millions of immigrants were proud to do.
Things began to change in the 1930s with the advent of social security numbers, and then more so with the Alien Registration Act of 1940, signed into law as a WWII security measure. When the war ended, instead of being repealed, in 1946 it evolved into what we now call Green Cards.
In effect, we had completely open borders and the country thrived. In fact, during the decades we now call the Gilded Age—the high-growth period that Donald Trump claims he wants to emulate—our borders were wide open. The reason this worked so well is that we had no welfare state. People came to America for freedom and opportunity only. They came to contribute to our economy, not live off it. They did not drain our resources; they added to them.
The lesson is that immigration is not the problem. The problem is the welfare state. Shut off that magnet and America will no longer attract people looking for free stuff. In fact, we need to turn off that magnet for everyone, so those who are looking for free stuff will leave to seek it out someplace else.
Do they not realize they are obsolete? Just do 24hr streaming directly from the White House. These legacy networks still don't understand how little they are trusted and how happy most people will be to see them gone.
The major television networks are standing with CNN by declining to replace its White House pool crew after the Trump administration barred the network from fulfilling its assigned duties on Monday. cnn.it/4hk4jmy
MSM is becoming obsolete as people get news and events directly online and through streaming. Refusing White House pool coverage only limits the networks' own access and relevance, accelerating their own eventual irrelevance.
Politicians want to regulate AI because they know AI is an immediate way Americans to quickly identify when a politician is full of it. All they have to do is ask Grok "is what this politician is saying true" and get a fact-based answer. No more Newspeak or Doublethink to control.
AI is the new Climate Change. They tried to control you through fear of a climate crisis. That didn't work. Now, they're trying to control you through fear of a robot invasion.
How many times did they tell you that we have 10 to 12 years to solve the climate crisis? Now it's 10 to 12 years before AI ends us all.
More than likely, in 10 years AI will have solved the world's greatest problems and mysteries.
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Glitch is back. Poster senior for term limits.
A group with no intelligence demanding the control and regulation of artificial intelligence. A group that can't even balance their own budget or recognize the horrors of collectivism is going to somehow comprehend and regulate super intelligence, but only in USA? Um, no.
I resigned from Congress today.
I spent the last twelve years watching both parties write budgets, hold hearings, and pass continuing resolutions. Neither caucus is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to fiscal insolvency and gambling with the currency, the bond market, and every working person's future.