I’m glad you are able to diagnose the various consequences of technological stagnation. Maybe you’re right that AI will make almost every pair of hands more productive, and this in turn will create a boom in material comfort and prosperity
I have my doubts. The NIMBY movement will abort in utero the power plants and transmission that AI will need
The NIMBYs will strangle housing supply, so all these gains in efficiency will all flow exclusively to elderly landlords
Lastly, I strongly suspect that all these efficiencies will translate into unemployable hands. Maybe UBI will make up the income destruction, but I have even more doubts about government paying for UBI compared to doubts about the NIMBYs
Still, I wish you luck and I salute your courage in taking up the fight
I agree with pretty much everything you said and am so glad someone is doing this but just as a tactical matter I think it would be better not to quote Thiel. There are plenty of pro-tech people on the left and the last thing you want is to get this cause associated with partisan politics and on the left people hear Thiel and think of him much the way they think of the Kochs.
Anybody who thinks we should collaborate with the CCP on anything should be sold into slavery under the meanest and cruelest master which can be found.
Excellent work, thank goodness someone is doing it. I just wish Europe had a few Brian Chaus.
Great stuff, Brian. Time to accelerate. I will be in DC in April and would be great to attend some kind of AFTF meetup.
I’m glad you are able to diagnose the various consequences of technological stagnation. Maybe you’re right that AI will make almost every pair of hands more productive, and this in turn will create a boom in material comfort and prosperity
I have my doubts. The NIMBY movement will abort in utero the power plants and transmission that AI will need
The NIMBYs will strangle housing supply, so all these gains in efficiency will all flow exclusively to elderly landlords
Lastly, I strongly suspect that all these efficiencies will translate into unemployable hands. Maybe UBI will make up the income destruction, but I have even more doubts about government paying for UBI compared to doubts about the NIMBYs
Still, I wish you luck and I salute your courage in taking up the fight
I agree with pretty much everything you said and am so glad someone is doing this but just as a tactical matter I think it would be better not to quote Thiel. There are plenty of pro-tech people on the left and the last thing you want is to get this cause associated with partisan politics and on the left people hear Thiel and think of him much the way they think of the Kochs.
Any comment on the possibility of AI replacing the human race, or creating ultimate dictatorship?
Jesus Christ, fucking Sam Altman.
Anybody who thinks we should collaborate with the CCP on anything should be sold into slavery under the meanest and cruelest master which can be found.
Not that the average authoritarian leftist is likely to support your premise anyway, but…
…you use the word “countryMEN” in your post, therefore you must be canceled.
Of course, if you replaced it with “fellow citizens”, that too would be a non-inclusive cancel-able sin…