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Screw it, I'm doing a huge give away. What is is? WHITE MIRROR: STORIES Optimistic Sci-Fi for the insane times we live in. Giving away 3 signed copies by default. +1 copies for every 100 likes +1 copies for every 100 reposts +10 for every 1M views
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Would you let someone with a lower IQ relative to you look after your children? (nannies, school teachers, etc) If so, how much of a drop are you willing to concede?
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I'm going to write a James Bond movie and produce it with ai where the villain is basically Bill Gates. This guy is just incredible for how well he fits the mold of a super evil dude who puts a lot of effort into looking virtuous, which is just a ploy to accrue more power.
ビル・ゲイツ「これから20年間、世界は大混乱に陥る」 AIが全員を豊かにする前に訪れる「地獄の20年」――人間の仕事は完全に消滅する(2026年10月22日のインタビュー) 「豊かな未来が来る前に、人類は『20年間の大パニック』を生き残らなければならない」 世界を裏から見通す男ビル・ゲイツが、AIとロボットが完成する直前に訪れる「最も危険な20年間の過渡期」について明かした警告をわかりやすく👇 ・「今後20年間」は勝者と敗者に分かれて社会が大荒れになる AIが全人類を豊かにする天国が来る前に、これから約20年間は「猛烈な混乱の時代」が続くと断言。これまでの常識がガラガラと崩れ去り、仕事を奪われる負け組と、莫大な富を握る勝ち組に社会が真っ二つに引き裂かれます。 ・家づくりも農業も手術も「激安ロボット」が全部やる 特に中国などが莫大なお金を突っ込んで、器用に手足を動かす人間そっくりのロボットを猛スピードで開発しています。あと数年から10年もすれば、家を建てる大工仕事も、野菜を育てる農業も、医者の外科手術もすべてロボットがタダ同然のコストでこなすようになります。 ・人間の労働は「完全に不要」になり、誰も働けなくなる この開発を今すぐ世界中でストップさせない限り、人間が生活やお金のために働く仕組みそのものが完全に消滅します。問題は、全員が働かずに暮らせるゴールにたどり着くまでの「これからの20年間」、世界が耐えきれずに崩壊するリスクだとゲイツは冷徹に警告しています。 要するに、「『いずれAIとロボットが何でもタダ同然で作ってくれる時代が来るが、それまでの20年間は仕事が消滅して格差と大混乱で世界中が地獄のサバイバルになる。人間が働く必要が完全になくなるまでの大パニックをどう生き残るのか』とビル・ゲイツが衝撃の予告をしている」ということです。
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Just invent the universe and after sentient life evolves a few billion years later, enslave all of it.
the worst advice you can follow is to sell pickaxes during a gold rush everyone is doing that instead, try to sell wood and iron to the people making the pickaxes better yet, grow trees to sell the wood to the wood sellers, and buy mountains to sell the iron even better, invent the concept of wood and iron to sell to the tree growers and mountains
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My cousin had his bank account completely emptied yesterday and the nature of the fraud is breaking my brain. Somehow they are calling using the bank's actual phone number? How is this possible?
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As long as Sisyphus was well fed and got 8 hours of sleep, he'd very likely be happy from all that exercise. And jacked af.
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Tinkered Thinking retweeted
The American dream just got three times more expensive. per WSJ. 10 years ago: Mortgage rate: 3.4% Median home price: $235,000 Monthly payment: about $830 Today: Mortgage rate: 7.4% Median home price: $418,000 Monthly payment: about $2,300 Home prices are up 78%.
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there is no moat
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Teens are telling their therapists they don’t believe there will be a world left for them when they grow up My family therapist told me therapists are talking about this with each other because none of them know what to say I can’t stop thinking about that
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prestige and exclusivity seem to have a shorter half life than in the past. everything gets shared and watered down
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This could be big. Been waiting to hear of a viable senescent cell clearing therapy for years. Entering human trials *this year* is very encouraging. Unlike most announcements that point at some distant possible trial.
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The most prescient AI forecasters I know: * Carl Shulman * Daniel Kokotajlo (What 2026 looks like, AI 2027) * Leopold (Situational Awareness) * Ryan Greenblatt (#2 in 2025 forecasting competition) All seem to expect broadly beyond-human AI 2028-2029.
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I don't understand why so many contemporary writers seem embarrassed by the idea of beauty.
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Replying to @Humanoholic
It's very simple. Contemporary literature stopped exploring big ideas.
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why do you think modern literature doesn't hit the same way? dostoevsky, kafka, steinbeck... i genuinely wonder if i'm just not finding the right contemporary authors or if something about the way we write has changed.
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How relevant is contemporary literary fiction? Let's find out. Have you ever heard of any of these books? - Foster by Claire Keegan - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill - The Sellout by Paul Beatty
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A lot of what we call luck is just merciless search, trial, and error.
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Humans: "I'll believe it when I see it" The Universe: "Lmfao"
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Tesla stock is finally going to go up...
Elon Musk reportedly invests $1 billion in the parent company of CNN and CBS News, gaining an ownership stake in both networks.
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The purpose of productivity books/podcasts is to quell the guilt of being unproductive in the past with the dream of being productive in the future, productivity itself doesn't enter the equation, because the answer would be to start by closing the book/turning off the podcast
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