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[Warren Mascarenhas @WarrenKarl]

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[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Whatever you need… make an app for that.

Now on your phone. For everyone. Free.

[0xJeff @0xJeff]

https://t.co/0XzlQbjW5L

[Warren Mascarenhas @WarrenKarl]

This is cool!

[Youmio @youmio_ai]

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[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Why AI Won't Cause Unemployment

Marc Andreessen
Reposted Jan 24, 2025

"In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of [running] a business." -- George McGovern

Fears about new technology replacing human labor and causing overall unemployment have raged across industrialized societies for hundreds of years, despite a nearly continual rise in both jobs and wages in capitalist economies. The jobs apocalypse is always right around the corner; just ask the Luddites.

We had two such anti-technology jobs moral panics in the last 20 years — “outsourcing” enabled by the Internet in the 2000’s, and “robots” in the 2010’s. The result was the best national and global economy in human history in pre-COVID 2019, with the most jobs at the highest wages ever.

Now we’re heading into the third such panic of the new century with AI, coupled with a continuous drumbeat of demand for Communist-inspired Universal Basic Income. “This time is different; AI is different,” they say, but is it?

Normally I would make the standard arguments against technologically-driven unemployment — see good summaries by Henry Hazlitt (chapter 7) and Frédéric Bastiat (his metaphor directly relevant to AI). And I will come back and make those arguments soon. But I don’t even think the standand arguments are needed, since another problem will block the progress of AI across most of the economy first.

Which is: AI is already illegal for most of the economy, and will be for virtually all of the economy.

How do I know that? Because technology is already illegal in most of the economy, and that is becoming steadily more true over time.

How do I know that? Because, [see chart].

This chart shows price changes, adjusted for inflation, across a dozen major sectors of the economy.

As you can see, we actually live in two different economies.

The lines in blue are the sectors where technological innovation is allowed to push down prices while increasing quality. The lines in red are the sectors where technological innovation is not permitted to push down prices; in fact, the prices of education, health care, and housing as well as anything provided or controlled by the government are going to the moon, even as those sectors are technologically stagnant.

We are heading into a world where a flat screen TV that covers your entire wall costs $100, and a four year college degree costs $1 million, and nobody has anything even resembling a proposal on how to systemically fix this.

Why? The sectors in red are heavily regulated and controlled and bottlenecked by the government and by those industries themselves. Those industries are monopolies, oligopolies, and cartels, with extensive formal government regulation as well as regulatory capture, price fixing, Soviet style price setting, occupational licensing, and every other barrier to improvement and change you can possibly imagine. Technological innovation in those sectors is virtually forbidden now.

Whereas the sectors in blue are less regulated, technology whips through them, pushing down prices and raising quality every year.

Note the emotional loading of the interplay of production and consumption here. What do we get mad about? With our consumer hat on, we get mad about price increases — the red sectors. With our producer hat on, we get mad about technological disruption — the blue sectors. Well, pick one; as this chart shows, you can’t have your cake and eat it too.

Now think about what happens over time. The prices of regulated, non-technological products rise; the prices of less regulated, technologically-powered products fall. Which eats the economy? The regulated sectors continuously grow as a percentage of GDP; the less regulated sectors shrink. At the limit, 99% of the economy will be the regulated, non-technological sectors, which is precisely where we are headed.

Therefore AI cannot cause overall unemployment to rise, even if the Luddite arguments are right this time. AI is simply already illegal across most of the economy, soon to be virtually all of the economy.

[Allen T. @Mr_AllenT]

This is creepy..

It’s an AI tool called GeoSpy that can geolocate photos based on features in the image

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸MACKLEMORE RELEASES PRO-PALESTINE SONG: HIND'S HALL

Macklemore has released a new track supporting student protesters advocating for Palestine, directing all streaming proceeds to UNRWA.

Columbia University students renamed Hamilton Hall to Hind Hall in honor of the six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, who was killed by Israeli tanks.

The song is so culturally relevant it even includes the customary shots at Drake:

"If I was on a label, you could drop me today
I'd be fine with it 'cause the heart fed my page
I want a ceasefire, fuck a response from drake
What you willing to risk?
What you willing to give?
What if you were in Gaza?
What if those were your kids?
If the west was pretending that you didn’t exist
You'd want the world to stand up and the students finally did"

Source: @macklemore

[Warren Mascarenhas @WarrenKarl]

Sunrise 🔅 🔆 ☀️ @alanakyra @mileendglamping #nofilter

#westernaustralia #sunrise #perthisok @ Mile End Glamping https://t.co/Cd71fFgUBw

[Warren Mascarenhas @WarrenKarl]

ScoMosas 😂😂

[Hon. Scott Morrison AC @ScoMo30]

Sunday ScoMosas with mango chutney, all made from scratch - including the chutney! A pity my meeting with @narendramodi this week is by videolink. They’re vegetarian, I would have liked to share them with him.

[Danielle Baskin @djbaskin]

Choosing your quarantine character 🍾👏😂

https://t.co/tgsQfH1ZIZ

[Warren Mascarenhas @WarrenKarl]

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[StanceGrounded @_SJPeace_]

The Police in Mallorca, Spain making rounds around villages on lock down to do this 😭

To alleviate the anxiety of the people and to keep them entertained ❤

[Warren Mascarenhas @WarrenKarl]

Morning Horse ride 🐎 in #Dubai

[Charles Patterson @CharlesPattson]

I would use this wallpaper

[Warren Mascarenhas @WarrenKarl]

Absolutely love the brave browser. It's faster than chrome and it blocks all the ads 🙇 https://t.co/FsW0pj7hq7 $bat

[Warren Mascarenhas @WarrenKarl]

@ceejay_el Here is a way to skip the ads https://t.co/FsW0pj7hq7

[Warren Mascarenhas @WarrenKarl]

@DannPetty @instagram Same here! My last post was in August 2017. Way too many ads - kills the user experience. I've taken it off my home screen.

[Warren Mascarenhas @WarrenKarl]

@RuthSeq 😂😂

[Warren Mascarenhas @WarrenKarl]

@RuthSeq I'm saving this for the next time i get asked that question 😄

[Warren Mascarenhas @WarrenKarl]

Such lovely peope! 😊

If your in Ko Samui (south of the island) and looking for a ride, DM me and I'll hook you up w/ Joy and her son Ben :)

#thailand