Abundance & Post-Scarcity

Abundance, basic income, AI, automation, and post-scarcity economics. Independent commentary. Not financial advice. 🍀

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

What if abundance is an engineering problem?

AI, automation and better economic systems can help reduce artificial scarcity and move society toward post-scarcity.

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[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

Maybe because they're simply not rehiring when people leave them to a certain degree.

[UBI Works 🇨🇦 @ubi_works]

Evidence of AI-driven labour displacement is materializing. BLS data shows a distinct contraction in AI-exposed occupations, even amidst broader market growth.

We can't out-train automation. If AI does the work, the public should get dividends.

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

That is neat.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

i'm obsessed with AI DIY projects.

my favorite one right now is this broccoli farmer in hokkaido, japan using Codex to run his 100-hectare farm

this guy never studied agriculture, never inherited land, started out as a civil servant.

but he wanted his farm to run better, and instead of paying an engineering firm he couldn't afford, he just built the tools himself.

here's what he's built on his own:

> remote control of his greenhouse vents from a chat app, wired up with an esp32 board, a motor driver, and cloudflare workers

> a bot that checks each greenhouse's temperature and opens the vents when it gets too hot

> satellite crop-health data laid over a map of his own fields

> an airtable base linking his plots, tasks, materials, and sensors

> wiring diagrams of his electrical panels, generated from a photo

stuff like this used to be locked behind machinery and engineers only the big agribusinesses could pay for.

but this legend just breezed past all of it with a laptop and Codex lol

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

Ummmmm

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: For the first time in internet history, agentic traffic has surpassed human traffic online, per Cloudflare Radar.

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

Cool tech developments....

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🤖 NEW: NVIDIA has launched new physical AI and robotics development skills designed to automate key workflows from simulation and scene preparation to training and deployment.

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

Hmmmm

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The cost of starting a company used to be $5 million. Then $500,000. Then $50,000. Now it is closer to $500. The only expensive thing left is your unwillingness/fear to begin.

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

Big deal? Really?

@grok

[How To AI @HowToAI_]

ByteDance has published a paper that should make every NVIDIA investor sweat.

They trained an AI that writes CUDA better than humans experts.

They call it CUDA Agent.

And it completely rewrites the economics of AI hardware.

They built a massive agentic reinforcement learning loop. The AI writes a kernel, compiles it, profiles the hardware, analyzes the bottlenecks, and rewrites the code until it's flawless.

It learned how to optimize memory access patterns and hardware tiling strategies that traditional compilers miss.

The results are staggering.

On the industry-standard KernelBench, CUDA Agent completely destroyed traditional compilers.

It delivered code that runs up to 3.2x faster than PyTorch's native execution.

On the hardest, most complex models, it beat the strongest proprietary models in the world—including Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 Pro, by 40%.

It didn't just match human experts. It started discovering optimizations that static compilers literally cannot see.

Here is why this is a massive threat to NVIDIA.

NVIDIA's dominance relies on the fact that CUDA is incredibly hard to master. Developers get locked in because optimizing code for other chips is too painful.

But if an AI agent can autonomously generate hyper-optimized hardware kernels...

You don't need a team of $500k a year CUDA engineers to build world-class infrastructure.

And if an AI can autonomously master CUDA, it can master AMD's ROCm. Or custom silicon.

The impenetrable software wall protecting NVIDIA's monopoly just got breached by a reinforcement learning loop.

If anyone can automatically squeeze maximum performance out of any chip...

Hardware becomes a commodity.

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

UBI needs to be implemented in a way that preserves freedom.

[UBI Works 🇨🇦 @ubi_works]

David Graeber perfectly captures the essence of why UBI is essential: it gives us back our agency.

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

New model....

[Axios @axios]

Microsoft debuts Scout agent, homegrown reasoning model https://t.co/WwvCJQrEu8

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

AI needs to benefit all of humanity.

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Sam Altman's new interview: AI should not be designed to pursue goals that are disconnected from human needs. People must remain at the center of AI development.

“I have no interest in building a super-smart AI that accomplishes some non-human goals. People should react. People should say, ‘Hey, this is what I want, and this is what I do not want.’

I do not think the issue is that we have failed to explain the benefits. We say, ‘AI is going to cure a bunch of diseases,’ and people say, ‘Okay, that is great, but that is not really my question. My question is: What is my role in the future? What is my economic future? What is my agency? How do I know that my kids and my family will still be able to have fulfilling, creative expression, struggle, drive the world forward, grow, and do this thing together in a way that has worked for a long time?’

When people in AI say, ‘Sure, there are going to be no jobs,’ or ‘50% of jobs are going to go away,’ or ‘90% of jobs are going to go away,’ and ‘AI is going to be smarter than you at everything,’ and ‘We will give you some basic income, but you are not really going to have a role,’ that is horrible.

And by the way, if an AI company says, ‘Maybe we are going to destroy all the jobs, and we will be the most valuable company in the world,’ people should look at you like, ‘Yeah, that is a terrible message.’

I do not think the problem is that we have not articulated the upsides. I think people actually believe us. They hear, ‘AI may cure your cancer,’ and they think, ‘That sounds great.’

I think we, as an industry, have failed to explain how people stay in control of determining the future at every step, and how people can still have a meaningful life in all the ways we care about.”

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From "CNBC Television" YouTube channel, (link in comment)

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

That's cool! The future is now...

[NVIDIA Newsroom @nvidianewsroom]

At #NVIDIAGTC, Jensen announced a major open source collection of physical AI agent skills and tools, available now on GitHub.

The new collection helps agents tap into NVIDIA technologies including Omniverse libraries, Cosmos world foundation models, Isaac simulation frameworks, Metropolis, Alpamayo and Jetson, with skills spanning autonomous vehicles, robotics, vision AI, industrial digital twins and healthcare.

Read the release ➡️ https://t.co/TGnxEGt5TU

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

Exactly.... SWF UBI?

[David Shapiro (L/0) @DaveShapi]

Yes, by the SWF needs to pay dividends directly to households. NOT funding the government.

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

Tune change?

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang responds to claims that AI is taking jobs:

"People are talking about AI decreasing jobs, it's complete nonsense."

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

How do you think universal basic income will realistically be implemented?

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

We need health care abundance and no artificial scarcity

[Barchart @Barchart]

Billionaire Mark Cuban Asks Why Insurance Companies Pay $2,500 for an MRI When ‘a Center Down the Street’ Only Charges $350

https://t.co/wwjtHGSAzz

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

AI can be a net job creator?

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

JENSEN HUANG CALLED OUT EVERY CEO WHO’S BEEN FIRING PEOPLE “BECAUSE OF AI.”

JIM CRAMER ASKED HIM WHY COMPANIES ARE LAYING PEOPLE OFF IF AI IS SUPPOSED TO MAKE EVERYONE MORE PRODUCTIVE.

JENSEN’S RESPONSE:

“FOR COMPANIES WITH IMAGINATION, YOU WILL DO MORE WITH MORE.

FOR COMPANIES WHERE THE LEADERSHIP IS JUST OUT OF IDEAS, THEY HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO DO.

THEY HAVE NO REASON TO IMAGINE BEYOND WHAT THEY ARE TODAY.

WHEN THEY GAIN MORE CAPABILITY, THEY DON’T DO MORE.”

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

Not a bad idea

[UBI Works 🇨🇦 @ubi_works]

As AI starts doing more of the heavy lifting, OpenAI suggests it's time to tax automated labour to keep our safety nets strong.

Untax human workers.

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

Hmmm... fair? Sign?

[the UBI guy @theUBIguy]

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[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

Will this trend continue?

[Business Insider @BusinessInsider]

Cisco, Atlassian, Cloudflare, Coinbase, IBM, and Snap are among the companies that have cited AI during layoffs this year. https://t.co/2B3jk12oRp

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

cool robot!

[Ronald van Loon @Ronald_vanLoon]

Multimodal Hexapod #Robot Switches Locomotion Modes to Adapt to Any Terrain
via @ZappyZappy7

#Robotics #EmergingTech #Technology #Innovation #TechForGood

[Abundance & Post-Scarcity @BasicIncomeUBI]

@grok how could credit unions implement universal basic income for account holders through asset trusts that invest in ETF's and reinvest half the gains and distribute the other half to account holders?

Is that a good idea?