Well I know what book is next on my reading list now. I read The Ministry for the Future a while ago and loved the concept (it was a bit hard to get through due to the structuring though).

They get it but it costs more to develop over parking lots. That’s it. It cuts into their profit.

I think we’re headed towards a Troubles type scenario. Like a decade or more of stochastic terrorism, some organized groups, lots of violent suppression by the government, and further corporate capture of the state. I guess that’s just the fascist end goal.

you joke… but that’s literally the plan. Thiel, Musk, Andreeson, Horowitz, and the rest of the Yarvinites are trying to consume as much of the government and state power as possible.

Trump and co are actively hostile to the US government though. There have been entire books written about how compromised he is. He’s the perfect insider threat example: in debt to foreign powers, selfish and looking to make personal money, lies about his dealings, easily temptable with honeypot women (and Epstein girls, fucking sick), no allegiance or any form of duty to country or anything bigger than himself because he’s a massive nihilist narcissist.

Really really scary times for anyone in America.

jesus christ

This regime has caused so much damage to our national security, much of which we won’t discover for years or decades. The Russians and Chinese (and literally anyone else) are probably fully infiltrated into our entire system in every aspect. SO fucking incompetent and corrupt.

That’s the entire elephant in the room of the future economy. Just don’t think about it, put your head down, don’t question things, and consume more short form social media slop.

This article strikes me as AI written or at least partially. Each paragraph topic is so broad to the point of being pointless.

As a response to the general topic, iykyk:

“Do not answer. Do not answer. Do not answer.”

Yep that’s what I’ve heard about Parable of the Sower but all the more reason to read it. I work on a cluster called Butler named after her so apparently she’s pretty good.

Interesting, thanks!

Not taking a photo, but here are mine:

• The Ministry for the Future

• I’m With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet

• Termination Shock

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

• American War (Omar El Akkad)

Books that I want to read but haven’t:

• Petroleum Papers

• Seveneves

• Parable of the Sower (Butler)

• The Language of Climate Politics (Guenther)

• The Deluge (Markley)

• Merchants of Doubt (Oreskes)

• The Big Myth (Oreskes)

Literally name any single industry with anything, and AI has vastly pushed it forward. It’s way to big to type here. Just off the top of my head: climate, pharmaceutical, other biomedical stuff (neuroscience, genetics, medical advances in every possible body system), energy (that alone has THOUSANDS of huge advances), science in general (astrophysics, geophysics, chemistry, agriculture, I mean every single scientific field). I’m listing every field I can think of, because it’s that pervasive.

The most visible advances which is just in like business/productivity for the sake of making money, I’d argue is the least important. It’s most important for a capitalist society that values profit over all else, but that’s a recipe for collapse, which is where we’re quickly headed.

It’s not AI that’s the problem. AI is an amazingly powerful tool (I’m an AI researcher).

The problem is that it’s in the hands of psychotic technofascist greedy subhumans that want to destroy basically all of society so their stock can go up 0.001%. If we can cut out the source of the cancer, the body can begin to heal itself.