Every journalist who lied about this has blood on their hands. They’re killing people. This is like urging people not to wear seat belts.
Go take a demo drive with Tesla’s latest self-driving software and try to tell me with a straight face that i’m wrong.
I have the sneaking suspicions we all actually have to work has hard as possible to prevent a very small group of people from intentionally destroying civilization
Your statement is true if goods & services output doesn’t rise dramatically due to AI/robots, but false if it does.
In a normal economy, issuing more money simply increases the dollar price of the existing output of goods & services, meaning people do NOT get more stuff.
If AI/robots massively increase goods & services output, then you actually MUST issue dollars to people or there will be massive disinflation. Prices are simply the ratio of goods & services output to number of dollars.
When your working life rewards you, it’s easy to ratchet up the complexity: homes, cars, travel, possessions etc.
I have found that all that complexity comes at the sake of your most fleeting asset: your time. Instead of building things, all of a sudden you’re dealing with minutiae and logistics. Instead of talking mostly to engineers, you’re talking mostly to non-engineers. The building stops…the business of managing self inflicted complexity begins.
It’s worth noting that the best players in the game (Buffett, Elon) have kept their life extremely basic, almost monastic/nomadic, as success ratcheted them ever higher.
I think it’s the biggest secret hiding in plain sight:
When the world upgrades your status, downgrade your complexity.
Japan's theft is rare because it's 98% ethnically homogeneous, creating unmatched social trust and conformity. Stealing shames your family and group in a shame culture. Kids learn honesty early via strict norms, Buddhism/Shinto values, and group harmony (wa). Low inequality, visible koban policing, 99% conviction rate, and broken-windows enforcement on petty crime seal it. No open borders diluting that. High-trust, low-diversity works.
AI Engineers are going to be insanely valuable for the next 3-5 years.
Just someone who is VERY good at deploying AI in any use case.
Basically use Claude Code + Codex + OpenClaw + Grok + Gemini to solve any problem a business is having.
Next-level valuable.
Today’s Terafab announcement reminded me of when I first met Elon:
I watched him do 10 hours of xAI reviews without a break—and then he ate a $9 Doordash burrito and kept going until 2am.
He could do anything right now, but instead he spends every waking minute earnestly working on the most ambitious project imaginable to advance humanity.
Since I’ve been asked a lot:
Buy stock in several companies that make products & services that *you* believe in.
Only sell if you think their products & services are trending worse. Don’t panic when the market does.
This will serve you well in the long-term.