Actually, AI/Robotics will mean everyone can have a penthouse if they want. The output of goods & services will be several orders of magnitude higher than today’s economy.
Read the Iain Banks Culture books for the best imagining of how it will be.
That said, what is the future you want? Amazing abundance seems the best to me.
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.
@elonmusk@GailAlfarATX@Tesla@aelluswamy @tesla@elonmusk@garyblack@sawyermerritt. When will us pre-2018 owners get the upgraded cameras. Lot of paid for FSD and cant even run beta due to older cameras. Service has no info on timing!
@truth_tesla@elonmusk Even if Elon can prove bots are > 5% of mDAUs, given the company’s caveats in their SEC filings that 5% is an estimate and the % could be higher, it will be very difficult for a DE Court to find this triggers an MAE. Unless Elon can show $TWTR knew the % was above 5% and hid it.
@garyblack00@tlake11 Gary, i think most of the responses to this tweet says it all. If expansion at shanghai and Fremont alone can get to 50% as elon mentioned….how the heck can PMs not hear the additional 2 factories coming online that will scale up to 500k/ea??? PMs are beyond clueless
@JoeBiden Tesla has created over 50,000 US jobs building electric vehicles & is investing more than double GM + Ford combined
[fyi to person controlling this twitter]
@garyblack00@wanda_hudson@heydave7@elonmusk He already told everyone! Fremont and shanghai ALONE can get to 1.5million this year. Austin and berlin will ramp similar to shanghai….as he said. If this doesn’t spell it out, no answer will please investors. this is during a parts supply shortage baked in too!!!
@garyblack00@DowJonesAl@POTUS Well Biden has refused to acknowledge Tesla at all….Imo, Musk is taking it easy on him. Biden is not just shunting Tesla but holding back the EV transition with his political Rhetoric
@christoph_leitl@ButTsla@garyblack00 It is a pretty dumb question tbh. 50% growth avg/yr. Hmm by ramping up production from the factories they have now and are opening soon. They can not make cars fast enough to satisfy demand…period! Analysts are so short term focused its sad. Musk is 5-10ahead of you all!
@garyblack00@leadsboosters He is showing his maturity with regards to tesla. Focus on working out supply chain issues, while ramping 2 factories at once. They haven’t stopped CT or Roadster or Semi….just slower than many want. This is an industry wide issue that Musk beat!