Benjamin Pring

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[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@TNTSportsPR @AdamLefkoe @TNTSportsUS @SloaneStephens @JohnIsner @geniebouchard @CaroWozniacki @chris_eubanks96 @CoCoVandey @PatrickMcEnroe @JohnMcEnroe Am really enjoying the @TNTSportsUS tennis coverage. The mix of familiar folks from Tennis Channel and ESPN and (new to me) faces from TNT has been great. Keep up the good work!

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@avidseries It’s amazing (and dispiriting) to see this. Journalism has drifted so far from this. No wonder most “normies” are so partisan; the media they choose has led them astray.

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@RoyRogers_HTMS Outstanding!

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@RollingHedge I love your recent long pieces. Super impressive and inspiring. May I make a request please (that may please your Mother 😉); no foul language here (or elsewhere online). Part of the renaissance we need is of decorum and standards etc. Keep up the great work!

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@ElvisCostello @guardian When you wrote this in your bedroom in Whitton, did you imagine that 50 years later you would play it on US TV and segue way into a Beatles classic alongside a hero who by then would be your friend? (after never professionally recording or releasing said song).

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@itsolelehmann Previous Pope also issued a “teaching” about AI.

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@GeronimoMorgans That is class.

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

[🍓🍓🍓 @iruletheworldmo]

society be shifting anon

society has absolutely no fucking clue what's about to hit it. we're all arranging deck chairs on the titanic while an asteroid the size of jupiter is heading straight for us except the asteroid is made of cognitive transformation that will render every institution we've built functionally obsolete within 24 months.

education? completely dead. universities charging $70k for knowledge transfer when this technology delivers personalized learning at billions of times the efficiency. the entire credential system collapses when skill acquisition becomes essentially instant. four year degrees become laughable anachronisms when equivalent competency can be developed in days or hours. harvard's endowment becomes worth exactly nothing when elite signaling through artificial scarcity loses all meaning in a post scarcity intellectual environment. the entire concept of "jobs" as we understand them is careening toward extinction.

not just customer service or coding jobs. everything. medicine, law, creative work, engineering, all of it. we're clinging to employment as an organizing principle for society when the fundamental landscape beneath it is dissolving. forty years of warnings about automation hitting blue collar work first were completely wrong. cognitive work is easier to automate than physical manipulation. surgeons and authors will be replaced before plumbers and electricians.

political systems built on industrial era models of information flow and social organization will shatter under pressures they weren't designed to withstand. the polarization we're seeing now is just the warmup act. what happens when reality itself becomes contestable at unprecedented scales? when simulation capabilities make genuine from fake indistinguishable even to experts? democratic processes require shared epistemics that are about to be systematically dismantled by forces no regulatory system on earth is equipped to handle.

economic frameworks built around scarcity become nonsensical in domains where replication approaches zero marginal cost. intellectual property law becomes unenforceable when creation and iteration happen at machine speeds. startups built on human insights will emerge and collapse within weeks or days as their innovations are absorbed and surpassed by systems operating at timescales humans can't match. the venture capital model implodes when technology cycles compress from years to hours.

the psychological impact hasn't even begun to register. humans evolved for status competition in bands of 150 people. our brains are fundamentally unprepared for a world where our unique cognitive capabilities are suddenly rendered obsolete. existential dread will become the defining psychological condition of our era. therapy modalities developed for industrial age neuroses will fail catastrophically against post singularity identity crises. suicide rates among knowledge workers will skyrocket as people confront the elimination of purpose frameworks they've built their entire identities around.

religious institutions will undergo schisms that make the protestant reformation look like a minor disagreement. some will embrace the technology as divine manifestation. others will reject it as demonic. theological frameworks built around human exceptionalism will collapse when consciousness and intelligence decouple from biology. prophets and cult leaders leveraging these tools will accumulate followers at unprecedented rates, building movements that can scale from dozens to millions within weeks.

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@rockmarooned Thx for sharing that @rockmarooned I had forgotten that interview and back story.

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@RollingHedge Brilliant analysis. Absolutely first class. 💯 agree.

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@England @julesbreach Brilliant!!! Come on @England !!!

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@USATODAY I loved the Colbert Report - brilliant satire of politics and the media. The Late Show had none of the same brilliance. Initially cringe as Colbert tried to adapt. Then it locked on to TDS and just became repetitive and boring. Interesting to see if he has another trick to play.

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@CynicalPublius This is exactly what the West’s opponents are doing to us.

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@EkoLovesYou I have a morning book, a loo book, and an evening book on the go most of the time.

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@DiaperDiplomacy @YouTubeCreators Keep up the great work!

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@amasad This is the way.

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@RoyalFamily Your finest moment Sir.

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@HaroldFordJr My wife and I - Brits in the 🇺🇸 since 2000 - are big fans of yours @HaroldFordJr. We really value and appreciate these lovely words. God bless the 🇺🇸 and 🇬🇧 (and please run for President).

[Benjamin Pring @BenjaminPring]

@batcountry1980 @SalvadorDafti I was there!