it will be invitation only so I can keep out the stupid people and evil AI bots

12/4/2025 7:32:13 PM

Quote :

""Even if the computer is a bicycle for the mind and a multiplier for intelligence, most people's intellectual output is zero, zero times a multiplier is still zero!""

This seems obvious even with something approaching AGI. Ultimately, you'll have to distribute capability to the population. But how does the population even use it effectively? Who does the distribution and who gets it becomes more of a social political question than a technical one.

Appalachia and rural NC didn't get the benefits of slave labor based internet technology like SF or even Raleigh did. Even if you 10x, 100x GDP, who says even 2x of that growth goes to those place? Why would say, Sam Altman*, not just round up problematic people and areas with humanoid robots if they needed resources or just became unhappy with the goods given?

Even places like SF are famously dystopian and poor in a lot of areas. The border of Tenderloin and Nob Hill have addicts shitting on the street with the worst poverty you have ever seen three blocks from a social club with Bentleys and Rolls Royce cars. Human nature is such that a decision between space faring yachts for the 1% and a 1960s style middle class life for the masses the space faring yachts are going to win every time.


* Altman has argued they would be token distributors and give access to people in allotments that could then use their AI power to build things.

[Edited on December 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM. Reason : a]

12/5/2025 7:11:39 AM

12/9/2025 11:35:04 AM

Just saying the most embarrassing shit to market your product

12/9/2025 1:02:31 PM

Jimmy Fallon is such a great interviewer and late night host! The best in the biz, if you ask me!

12/9/2025 1:38:02 PM

That's the best ad for modern conservatism I've ever seen.

12/9/2025 4:07:21 PM

"trad wives" downing antidepressants and 3 bottles of wine while AI raises their kids and their husbands go to alpha male retreats?

12/9/2025 5:31:51 PM

$2 million surrogate born designer babies with gay tech dads using robots to raise the baby so they can go to brunch in their $4.6 million Koenigsegg Regera. So relatable.

[Edited on December 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM. Reason : While progressives laugh at trad wives]

12/9/2025 6:57:12 PM

so you’re a fan of the trad wife movement?

12/9/2025 9:02:32 PM

trad wives is one of the dumbest abbreviations

12/9/2025 9:40:25 PM

i didn't want to ask what it was cause it sounded so gay

12/9/2025 9:50:21 PM

I thought trad wives were just SAHM is that an actual movement?

12/9/2025 10:29:59 PM

^ I would assume tgl meant the influencer variety. There has been a trend of TikTok influencers selling the SAHM mom thing but like Martha Stewart where they are tending the farm and making everything from scratch. There is some times a religious component, but not always.

It’s just a reversion to mean. Girl bossing PowerPoints to pay for your luxury apartment isn’t as fulfilling as staying at home with your three year old actually.

Quote :

"For readers of Betty Friedan or viewers of “Mad Men,” the idea that the interior life of a mid-twentieth-century housewife could be anything but tormented is strange, but the trad wives want to reclaim the role and show it as a source of pride and happiness. Though many trad wives voice suspicions of contemporary feminism, there is no singular model. The current queen is Hannah Neeleman, a homesteading mother of eight, who milks cows, bakes, dances, and takes part in beauty pageants, to the delight and incomprehension of her followers. Some, like the American Estee Williams, a quasi-Marilyn Monroe with white-blond waves and a cinched waist, advocate marital subservience"

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-trad-wife

I think staying at home with your kid in the early years is a great aspiration. Selling it for likes not so much.

12/10/2025 8:33:55 AM