This good little Nazi repackaging the Reaganist gaslighting that has broken the entire society just in time to prevent any Gen Z revolutionary sentiment from actualizing.
These NYC apartments are standing empty, not because the owners don't want to rent them, but because rent stabilization laws prohibit them from charging enough to earn back the costs of necessary repairs.
My latest for @WSJFreeEx
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Every billionaire "started in a garage" story conveniently leaves out the parental loans, elite university connections, and safety nets. Bezos got $300k from his parents. Gates' mom was on IBM's board. Musk's family owned an emerald mine. The garage is aesthetics. The capital is inherited. Stop calling it self-made when it's generationally funded.
The American professional economy is 85% this. Almost exclusively performative competence by privileged midwits who do not deserve their station in life on any true meritocratic basis.
"My feelings on recent developments are very mixed and complex," said the patient to the therapist before his rant about his ego wound stemming from his mother.
TERENCE TAO
“My feelings on recent developments are very mixed and complex.
On the one hand, many of the AI-generated proofs appear to introduce clever new ideas that will be fruitful once digested, while also building upon the existing contributions of countless human mathematicians past and present. But at the same time, I am deeply frustrated that, in sharp contrast to traditional breakthroughs, none of the humans involved in these proofs are available to take questions, give talks, attend conferences, submit papers to journals, train students, or otherwise participate in the subsequent development of these results.
Similarly, I am excited by the possibility of the community being able to use these tools to tackle ambitious and large-scale projects that one could not have even dreamed of in the past. But I am horrified by the many person-years of ongoing patient and deliberately slow research efforts – particularly by graduate students and postdocs – towards many motivating problems in mathematics being casually disrupted or destroyed by such a release. Much as one cannot unhear a movie spoiler or a crossword clue, one cannot explore a problem as profitably and richly once one is aware of an existing solution. Yes, one can still analyze and digest such an answer; but the best opportunity to do so is at the moment of its discovery, and such moments are increasingly wasted when delegated entirely to AI tools.
And I mourn the path not taken, and the opportunities lost in the frantic race to develop this technology. Labs submitting their frontier models to independent researchers for proper scientific evaluation. Coordination with the research community to ensure these tools are applied to complement and enhance the abilities and activities of human researchers, rather than compete with them. Use of these tools to foster collaboration and sharing, rather than competition and secrecy. Opening new doors, without closing old ones.
But that is not the path we now find ourselves in. Instead, the community needs to come together more than ever. To clearly declare our own standards and values, to build our own tools and practices, to support our most vulnerable members, and to chart our own path forward. Let’s get to work.”
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Notice the affectations; they're part of a uniform.
1. The smug facial expression
2. The creaky little girl voice--this takes effort. No woman's voice is like this naturally. It's a simultaneous move to seem smol-n-cute while at the same time signaling volcanic feminine eruption might be imminent.
-J
Literally going to end up with mass suicides because so many of these seemingly functional striver types can’t exist without constant congratulations.
If you want to be a fucking poet write poems.
Go to the gym. It’s a more straightforward mating ritual and AI can’t take it.
Why wouldn’t mathematicians want solutions to these huge open maths problems?
shoutout @mathandcobb for being a consistent voice in this conversation
Seeing these obscenely cynical responses from academics is the greatest argument for AI acceleration.
Stop listening to people who pretend their personal pathologies are ideologies.
That is so far off from what is happening it’s a total misandrist hallucination.
The boys find it funny because they know they’ll get out and they deal with discomfort with humor.
The girl takes everything too seriously and has no sense of humor and is, as usual, concerned with herself to a hyperbolic degree.
If there were more girls with hurt feelings in the elevators the boys would start getting more serious to manage all them. If some of them were prettier some of the boys would break ranks in the hopes of having sex.
If you’ve got an issue take it up with the endless hetero gender norms that own all of your minds but the men are not the villains.
We need to separate “human culture” from “American culture” immediately.
The French and Italians will have zero issues transitioning to this new reality. But Americans are at risk of individual and collective suicide because they know nothing beyond consumption.
Our civilisation is going to have to move beyond the idea of people needing a full time job just to survive and be a valued member of society, and we're gonna have to do it very quickly.
The idea that we may soon have artificial superintelligence smarter than the sum total of humanity, yet force people to attend a job where they do fake work for fake status-maxxing retards, in exchange for fake fiat currency is completely insane.
If we reach ASI and humans are still forced to compete for 9-5 wage slavery to live in a dogbox and order slopbowls for dinner in one tap whilst doomscrolling tiktok in hyper-realistic VR, we have failed as a species.
Full time jobs, for the most part, should be optional in the future.
They should be replaced by optional side quests of one's own choosing.
Ironically, this is really what capitalism is supposed to be about. We were supposed to work hard for something, and that something is not retirement, it's life itself.
The money exchanged along the way was a means to an end - a construct to achievement-maxx, gain status, and signal yourself as a productive member of society to differentiate yourself.
In a hard currency system this is closer to what people's everyday lives would look like anyway, because they would have significantly more savings and hence be able to take more risks or not work full-time anyway.
Full-time work in exchange for fiat is ludicrous in a world of physical abundance.
There's no 'extra morality' in exchanging human time (work) for production in a world where production is fully automated by AI and humanoids.
Society will have so much output that what will it really matter that you - a mere human - add one more output to the pile? Who cares?
So all you are left with is side quests that maximise personal fulfilment, not full time work for an employer.
Nobody’s figured out what the Instagram of the AI era will be (certainly not Meta).
Everything so far is the “everybody will be a genius from Wikipedia” of the early internet.
Americans can’t even distribute enough wealth to give universal healthcare. Trusting this culture with the redistribution of wealth from AI is the real existential risk to humanity.
