Everyone at my company thinks they're a programmer/designer now. I just get tagged in everyone's shitty feature PRs and as the PM have to explain why most of them suck and create tech and UX debt, and don't actually solve the customer problem that well. So basically AI has made me less productive 😅

Have gone my whole life without ever needing to use the word "apropos"

What if all AI compute just goes into attacking or defending against other AIs, and then basically nothing else changes except we have robots that clean things badly

Yes the CCP is so smart that they implemented the one child policy and engineered a self-inflicted demographic disaster.

Most charitable interpretation of the Iran attack: It shows that Trump is serious and won't make empty threats the next time there are negotiations. Then restart talks soonish and give Iran regime an offramp (no more nukes, some reforms) from a point of weakness.

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I always like the Robinson Crusoe economic analysis tool. What happens when there is only one economic actor, then two, then threw etc. Useful for understanding trade and comparative advantage and the benefits of specialisation etc. May also be useful to understand the impact of AI. What do the islanders now do when no one has to do book keeping, or manage customer service, or code the apps? What happens when only one islander can do all of these things - can he then demand more output from the others? What if another islander can also do all the computer work? I think the equilibrium is people demanding more luxury/leisure goods and services, and more people providing these. Builders, landscapers, cooks, childcare etc. But also more and more novel needs in the digital sphere. Basically we can't know, but the one constant is insatiable human desire.

Balaji is a very articulate retarded person

Many people confuse simple incentives in action for "capitalism"

I must be retarded because I'm trying to set up OpenClaw with @clawi.ai and I've been stuck twice so far: 1. Need a credit card since Clawi doesn't accept Bitcoin (which is weird given it was built by @calle). Paid some crazy premium for a privacy.com card, so solved that. 2. Apparently you also need to do a credit card IDV for a Brave browser API key - currently looking for a workaround, da fuq? Obvs not Clawi's fault but seems pretty unreasonable since it's the default search API OpenClaw wants to use. Is everyone else just doxxing themselves? Should have just set this up manually with an anon VPS but was lazy :/ (Also failed at setting up a telegram link - never used telegram so maybe it's me, but got the pairing key etc. and it failed - still need to solve this, although hoping I can get my bot to do White Noise)

Two types of nostr users 1. Plants are trying to kill you 2. Plants are medicine

It's going to be interesting watching some of the Trump anti-immigrant fans switch to arguing for Bitcoin to subvert citizenship bank account checks

Me reading a bitcoin newsletter: skip to the part about why current events mean price will pump

Seems more and more likely that AI is going to have a large short term disruptive impact on employment. This will lead to panic - I'm already seeing it from normie white collar job friends who think they'll be unemployed in a year and are making big decisions factoring this in. I honestly don't know what the fuck will happen and I'll probably panic too. But you know who will really panic? Governemnts. And they will both feed off and feed into the panic. The most obvious thing people will demand is guaranteed income and more welfare to protect them - I think even normies will realise AI is too powerful to simply regulate. This will lead to money printing. And this will happen before AI has a chance to grow the economy enough (i.e. pay the national debt from more taxes paid by Google and OpenAI). I don't know if Bitcoin goes higher in this scenario, but it increasingly looks like the one thing that can't be fucked with.

Hmmm, wtf happened to Signal on @Zapstore ?

I often hear "Bitcoin needs a new narrative", and usually from people pushing for some change to Bitcoin. Pretty sure sound money is a timeless narrative that we don't need to dilute. Some people get it now, others will learn the hard(er) way. If you want something short term then feel free to push the robot payments narrative.

Used Cursor to make a small change PR to my company's app. Took quite a few iterations of it being retarded until it did what I sort of wanted. Still needed an engineer to help figure out why it wasn't able to make the exact change I needed, and then to help correct all the deployment tests that my change broke. Probably was a really bad example of AI coding prowess, but seemed to confirm my intuition that these tools will be complements and not substitutes for software development.

Damn, maybe most people want their lives controlled and fear being free