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It’s easy to imagine the end of the world (mass unemployment, war, caste systems, starvation, Terminators) Much harder to imagine the miracle: 1. We are birthing gods 2. AI-powered robots could produce limitless food, water, and shelter (the foundations of life) for every human being 3. Medicine will leap forward: longer lifespans, extended healthspans... maybe even the end of aging itself 4. Distributed, open-source AI will develop in parallel with closed systems, ensuring that frontier technology isn’t locked behind elite walls 5. Universal Basic Income feels inevitable (and will soon dominate global politics) 6. If UBI is inevitable, then we are standing on the threshold of history’s most profound shift: when work becomes optional 7. A few generations from now, people may look back at our "jobs" the way we look at child labor or debtor’s prisons: as a grim necessity of a more primitive age More 🧵

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8. Virtual worlds will let us live a thousand different lives 9. AI will compress centuries of knowledge into a single lifetime. 10. We’ll form bonds across continents (in real time, with real depth) as if no distance ever existed at all And then, finally, in the quiet of this post-labor world, we’ll earn the right to ask the questions that matter: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

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Whatever you're smoking, please share. I get the idea to not lean too far into pessimism, and the importance of staying optimistic. However, it's easy to fall too far in the other direction and have a utopic vision that blinds you from the challenges of reality. The points listed don't take into account the systems designed to keep things exactly where they are, and the people who benefit from warding off anything that challenges their dominance. While it's important to think beyond them, it's also important to remember they exist as real obstacles to overcome and won't just disappear in a few generations.

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As always brilliant but scary for me.. 🤣🤣 @adam- 👋 hilarious response .. Insta follow + the first meme I saw on your feed just got me rofl..

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