Eric Weinstein just described the end of the mapped life.
For ten thousand years, humans had to earn the right to exist.
Pick a noun. Become the noun. Die as the noun.
Accountant. Teacher. Radiologist.
The box had a name. You climbed inside and stayed until retirement or death.
Weinstein: “Every occupation that is named is over.”
Not automated. Not replaced.
Named.
You picked a noun. It told the world who you were. Then it told you who you were.
If your future has a title your parents recognize, that future is already dissolving beneath you.
Weinstein: “A tsunami of a lifetime is coming and nothing your elders have seen is gonna prepare you.”
People hear this and assume it’s about unemployment.
It’s not. It’s about identity.
The machines aren’t absorbing tasks. They’re dissolving the categories we built ourselves around.
You spent your whole life becoming a noun. The noun is about to stop existing.
When the label disappears, what’s left of you?
Weinstein: “Get flexible. Get good on a bunch of different stuff. Learn how to think across disciplines.”
Stop being a noun. Start being a verb.
But the most important thing Weinstein said has nothing to do with strategy.
It touches something much older. Something closer to the bone.
In a world where AI is world-class at everything, what is the point of a human being?
Weinstein: “I think you should be able to just have a life. I have a golden retriever. I don’t know that it’s the greatest golden retriever in the world.”
For ten thousand years, human worth was measured by output.
How much you could lift. How fast you could think. How much value you could squeeze from a single day.
We trained ourselves to think like machines because machines didn’t exist yet.
Now they do.
And they will be better than us at every measurable thing.
Most people hear that and feel terror. They should feel something closer to relief.
When a machine can do it better, the metric dies. When the metric dies, the cage opens.
You were never supposed to be a spreadsheet. You were never supposed to justify your breath with a job title.
Your golden retriever doesn’t optimize. It doesn’t produce quarterly earnings. It doesn’t prove it’s worth to anyone.
It just lives. And you love it anyway.
That was always the offer. We just couldn’t afford it.
Now we can.
We spent ten thousand years trying to prove we were machines.
The machines just arrived to tell us we never had to be.
BREAKING🚨: A once-in-a-lifetime sky. 🌌
The Great Pyramids stand beneath an incredible six-planet alignment of Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, Uranus, and Neptune. As if that wasn't enough, a stray meteoroid streaked through the frame just as the shutter clicked.
While the distant ice giants (Uranus and Neptune) required long-exposure photography to be pulled from the darkness, the final composite captures the full, chaotic beauty of our solar system.
Let me spell things out for people who still don’t get what’s happening.
Not ONE Utah MSM outlet- who protect foreign criminals by perpetuating the “Utah Man” garbage- has touched what I exposed about the SLCo Sheriff’s data blackout.
Zero coverage.
The Sheriff’s Office is actively hiding arrestee data from taxpayers, PROTECTING CRIMINALS, and the media is pretending like this never happened. Not so strange from my perspective, because it’s all connected.
This is exactly why I started this account. There is a criminal transparency crisis in Utah.
Taxpayers should be furious. You’ve helped me ratio the MSM into oblivion in the name of transparency. We shouldn’t have to do that at all.
If you’re here to tag fake news MSM, or the Sheriff, save it. You’re missing the point. That’s like going to HR about the CEO. Needless to say, I’m pissed, and every single Utahn should be too. It is up to US to fix this. Helping me on this looks like sharing the below post and letting your reps know this is going on as it requires legislative oversight to be remedied. I’m working my own channels offline on this.
Feminism betrayed women by promising a safer world for them and their children. Instead, it left them much more vulnerable to harm and abuse. Husbands and fathers were never the problem. https://t.co/NjvUAMd3fH
Just a reminder to my fellow LDS…
We are not descendants of weak men.
When faced with the mob taking away the saints liberty he said:
“Free trade and Sailors rights be our motto, and go a-head David Crockett like, and lay down our lives like men.”- Joseph Smith
It just seems implausible this is what we are made of, essentially, nanotechnology about a billion years beyond anything we can design or make ourselves.
In a single post, my dear friend @NicoleBehnam cuts through geopolitical noise to explain exactly why this President, explicitly affiliated with a campaign of Non-Interventionist ideology, has specifically chosen 2 nations, Venezuela & Iran, for direct U.S. Military intervention.
I grew up in Iran at the height of oppression. My world was ruled by fear, censorship, and silence. @jk_rowling books showed me a universe where courage beat fear. That kind of storytelling saves minds and lives in ways people in free countries rarely understand.
Michelangelo described the Pantheon perfectly after seeing it for the first time in the early 1500s.
He said it was “an angelic and not a human design.”
The 3rd place ACC will be playing in the CFP Semifinal.
DON’T EVER TELL ME 3 LOSS BIG 10 or SEC TEAM IS BETTER THAN A 2 LOSS ACC OR BIG 12 TEAM EVER AGAIN.
Hezekiah's Tunnel
Nearly a half mile underground aqueduct carved through bedrock in 701 BC by King Hezekiah.
It diverted water from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam inside Jerusalem's walls,
Securing the city's supply against Assyrian siege.
This was cool.