What if abundance is an engineering problem?
AI, automation and better economic systems can help reduce artificial scarcity and move society toward post-scarcity.
๐ Abundance & post-scarcity economics
๐ Basic income & economic solutions
๐ Technology that expands freedom
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.
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
๐ค 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.
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.
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 worldโincluding 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.
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.
โI have no interest in building a super-smart AI that accomplishes some non-human goals. People should react. People should say, โHey, this is what I want, and this is what I do not want.โ
I do not think the issue is that we have failed to explain the benefits. We say, โAI is going to cure a bunch of diseases,โ and people say, โOkay, 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?โ
When people in AI say, โSure, there are going to be no jobs,โ or โ50% of jobs are going to go away,โ or โ90% of jobs are going to go away,โ and โAI is going to be smarter than you at everything,โ and โWe will give you some basic income, but you are not really going to have a role,โ that is horrible.
And by the way, if an AI company says, โMaybe we are going to destroy all the jobs, and we will be the most valuable company in the world,โ people should look at you like, โYeah, that is a terrible message.โ
I do not think the problem is that we have not articulated the upsides. I think people actually believe us. They hear, โAI may cure your cancer,โ and they think, โThat sounds great.โ
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.โ
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From "CNBC Television" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
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 โก๏ธ https://t.co/TGnxEGt5TU
Billionaire Mark Cuban Asks Why Insurance Companies Pay $2,500 for an MRI When โa Center Down the Streetโ Only Charges $350
https://t.co/wwjtHGSAzz
JENSEN HUANG CALLED OUT EVERY CEO WHOโS BEEN FIRING PEOPLE โBECAUSE OF AI.โ
JIM CRAMER ASKED HIM WHY COMPANIES ARE LAYING PEOPLE OFF IF AI IS SUPPOSED TO MAKE EVERYONE MORE PRODUCTIVE.
JENSENโS RESPONSE:
โFOR 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 DONโT DO MORE.โ
@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?