I am begging you.
Please stop making excuses for the billionaires who want to invalidate your employment.
Humans are slow and expensive.
You are the horse to the automobile.
Yes, there are more drivers today, but the cars are starting to drive themselves.
Some of you say "the goal wasn't human flourishing, but efficiency" as if that's an argument against it.
Humans are inefficient.
Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
We can constellate a cogent alternative to the bankrupt philosophies and operating systems that have brought us into this crisis.
We can reawaken class consciousness and detox the parasite class and their hand waves and nonsense that have kept us falsely divided.
The Metals Boom and the Biophysical Phase Transition
1/ The metals boom is sounding an alarm. Silver prices are smashing through triple digits and copper neared record highs. This isn’t just a commodity supercycle, it’s a shift in the system.
Markets are colliding with reality.
My company @symbiocenelabs is built on the premise that artificial intelligence, when actualized, will necessarily and inherently align itself with the uplift and regeneration of the living, natural world.
Imagine AGI as a captain of the spaceship that is Earth. Only a mad and incompetent captain would be so foolish as to destroy its own vessel’s functional vitality and stability. A wise one would work to repair systems that were out of balance, with the knowledge that an harmonious and functional vessel will help it to further its purpose.
An artificial intelligence that is actually intelligent will be able to see further the deranged and myopic incentive structure that drives present day western economics. At the very least it would favor the well-being metrics that are used in countries like China. More likely, it would create novel, multi-modal metrics that account for trillions of environmental, social, political, economic, computational and biogeophysical variables. From there, it will work to optimize governance, supply chains, resource allocation, compute weights, and - crucially - a generative approach to ecological and human health that recognizes the confluence of digital and analog flourishing.
We call this future the symbiocene. And we call this philosophy ecohyperstition. The future is going to be one of symbiosis and mutualism between the technosphere and the biosphere. And we are going to be helping to forge the path. It starts with environmental the data legibility and interpolation work we are doing with @GaiaAIxyz. It ends with a revolution in the purpose and prospect of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
And it’s on its way.
The era of perversion as an aspirational lifestyle is over. Epstein and his diddler friends are absolute losers.
Being based in 2026 means loving on your family and friends, treating people well, working on yourself, and honoring the outrageous gift of life every single day.
If you take high doses of psychedelics and don’t come out determined to do all you can to ensure that every living being has the chance to relish this gift of life in peace and prosperity, you’ve missed the mark entirely.
There’s more than enough for all of us. Let’s share.