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

12/4/2025 7:32:13 PM

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""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