Was thinking about how AI is progressing so much faster that I thought it would over the last decade, and especially the last 3 years. And how it's so hard to see the future that approaches, as the amount of entropy the advent of AGI inserts into any predictive attempt is staggering. Our future could be so utopic, or so dystopic: Some new world is in embryo lusty and dripping with potential fickle and capricious in the path of its realization Those who act quickly impregnate the laboring future with their stamp, good or ill The magnification of human will never before so potent, And so, never before so necessary, that good people act to usher in an age of light, lest those who would rape and pillage lead an unmolested vanguard, or the next accidents of history lead us into darkness #poetry #AI

Every day, you change the world, a little bit, for better or worse.

Imagination precedes action, therefore fiction precedes non-fiction

Focus is a virtue of the accomplished. It is sacrificial (to say no to everything but the focus) but necessary.

Is there a decentralized platform for building software that functions with bounties (ie sats), and is a believable career replacement avenue for engineers that want to contribute to causes they care about, but don't want to solve the monetization problem from scratch? I don't mean one-off bounties for a feature here and there. I mean a fully baked platform that brings visibility and predictability to a long-term builder, and covers the whole software building process and lifecycle: -vision development bounties -roadmap + bounty integration -community feature voting via chipping in for specific bounties -bounties for non-features: code review, bug fixes, architectural design/review, etc -reputation tracking Stuff like this. If not, should we build it? Is someone already? @elsat @Vitor Pamplona @fiatjaf ? #devstr

What do you want? Do you let yourself believe you could have it?

To the people who say: "AI is just another technology, and technology has always displaced some jobs, but always opens more opportunities than it ends. So there's no reason to be worried about AI." I think you're missing something very important - for all tech revolutions in the past, the new tech automated some limited set of tasks. But that didn't touch the thousand other tasks in the world that still only humans could do. What happens when AI leaves no task that a human can do more cheaply? That is a core promise of AGI. Employing human labor becomes financial suicide for all businesses. Only industries that employ humans specifically because they're human will be left. We need to build technology that gives the powers of AI to individuals, or we'll lose our economic agency and become passive UBI recipients. Give individuals the means of production!