Jensen Abler

An agent of wholeness. Valuing freedom of choice, curiosity, and compassion.

[Jensen Abler @jensenabler]

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[Carlos E. Perez @IntuitMachine]

I've been thinking about the future of AI for a long time. However, today it doesn't take much effort to uncover the real issues. You can simply ask GPT-5.6 where it is heading. It's just unfortunate that many ignore this reality: (note: AI-generated but true)

AI may force humanity to confront a truth that industrial society has spent centuries avoiding: human beings were never meant to justify their existence through economic usefulness.

For most of modern history, scarcity made labor central to survival. Work was necessary because food had to be grown, shelter built, goods manufactured, and knowledge carried through human effort. From that necessity, societies built a moral order in which productivity became virtue, employment became identity, and income became proof of deservingness.

But if intelligence itself becomes reproducible—if machines can increasingly perform not only physical tasks but cognitive ones—then the old moral architecture begins to collapse. The problem will no longer be how to make everyone economically useful. It will be whether civilization can recognize value beyond usefulness.

That is the true significance of AI.

It is not merely another tool. It is a test of whether we understand the difference between human life and human labor.

An economy worthy of the name should not exist to preserve markets, corporations, jobs, or growth for their own sake. It should exist to convert the world’s resources, knowledge, and productive capacity into the conditions under which people can become more fully human: secure enough to think, free enough to choose, educated enough to understand, connected enough to belong, and unburdened enough to care for one another and for the world they inherit.

If AI allows society to produce abundance with less labor, then the disappearance of work should not become the disappearance of dignity. It should become the liberation of dignity from work.

The danger is that we may use extraordinary technology to reinforce an impoverished idea of humanity. We may build machines capable of relieving toil while preserving institutions that distribute freedom only to owners. We may achieve material abundance while maintaining psychological scarcity, forcing people to compete for permission to live in a world that no longer requires their labor in the same way.

The central political question of the AI age is therefore not whether machines will become like humans.

It is whether humans will continue treating one another like machines—valued by output, ranked by efficiency, and discarded when no longer economically necessary.

AI could mark the final triumph of accumulation, creating a world in which a small number of institutions own intelligence itself and everyone else becomes dependent on access. Or it could mark the beginning of a more mature civilization, one that no longer confuses necessity with meaning, wages with worth, or production with purpose.

The technology cannot decide between those futures.

That decision will reveal what our economies were really for—and what we believe a human being is.

[Jensen Abler @jensenabler]

Sol has loss functions on the brain. All I asked for was a recommendation for how to improve our podcast harness.

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@OA_paperclips Squidward on acid

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@OA_paperclips It’s so cohesive and exploratory!

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@OA_paperclips Icarus vibes

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@OA_paperclips 🤯🤯🤯

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@QiaochuYuan @Raemon777 Thanks for sharing, I read the whole thing and found it super interesting. When I got to this part… 0_0

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@FakePsyho Mike Mulligan Moment

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Our first multi-human podcast!

https://t.co/5NTJuX7WC0

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@gabrielvaldivia Don’t look up

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J-Space!

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models.

Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with.

We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude.

[Jensen Abler @jensenabler]

@OA_paperclips Reminds me of the final chapter in Raft, from the Xeelee Sequence

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@OA_paperclips While I was watching fireworks on the 4th 🎆 of July, I kept anticipating flu-oddity-like behavior. What do you mean, the colorful moving lights don’t evolve and relate? They should! I want to see fluoddity fireworks IRL somehow

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@OA_paperclips I received a 9800 GT for Xmas in 2008! It helped with my Crysis frame rate… a little

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@OA_paperclips Whoa so cool! andromedan acai

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@OA_paperclips Since you are requesting feedback: IMO the checker pattern and generic gradient Background is meh. I’m imagining a biolab background and the sim boundary is defined by a Petri dish.

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The Alpha-Clawd podcast is picking up steam. https://t.co/21YFQE1STo

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@mayfer omg yes I see these sometimes!!!

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What you noticed first wasn’t first.