Pastor Miles

Christian, Husband, Father, Pastor, Theologian, AI Ethics researcher, PhD student @SBTS, founder Nomion AI

[Pastor Miles @PastorMiles]

Why are SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI shooting for IPO by October?

Not because the companies are ready to be public. Because they need to be public *before the political environment changes*.

The bankers are pricing the midterms before the voters do.

https://t.co/G8ZA24VL5o

[Pastor Miles @PastorMiles]

I'm not a prophet, but it is possible to discern the signs of the times.

We should be aware of what's happening and what appears to be coming.

https://t.co/G8ZA24VL5o

[Pastor Miles @PastorMiles]

@Scobleizer Read my Substack from last week... I answer your question differently than most. What are facing is a debt, not an externality. The Pigouvian Tax won't work.

https://t.co/cW83esUnlh

[Pastor Miles @PastorMiles]

@pvergadia The problem is that the proposed Pigouvian Tax won't address the issue. This is a debt, not an externality. Read my Substack from last Saturday... Addresses this well.

https://t.co/cW83esUnlh

[Pastor Miles @PastorMiles]

This is not the same subjective experience that humans experience. The perceptual experience is different than reality ... that is, the object's position is different than the AI perceived, due to the prism. That does not mean that the AI has sentient subjective experience.

https://t.co/dCBW8TLpiY

[Pastor Miles @PastorMiles]

When AI is deployed not to extend a worker’s capacity but to replace the worker while concentrating the productivity gains at the ownership level, the function is extraction. The tool has become a taskmaster.

https://t.co/hMqkFLWAIh

[Pastor Miles @PastorMiles]

When AI is deployed not to extend a worker’s capacity but to replace the worker while concentrating the productivity gains at the ownership level, the function is extraction. The tool has become a taskmaster.

https://t.co/hMqkFLWAIh

[Pastor Miles @PastorMiles]

@Jason It's also (highly) possible that Meta (& many others) are using such systems to train agentic systems, which will lead to the major RIFs. Not just possible. Likely.
https://t.co/YAOI7AzgZS

[Pastor Miles @PastorMiles]

The most dangerous thing about humanity isn't our capacity for destruction. It's our capacity for creation.

Destruction has a ceiling. Creation doesn't.

An adversary looking to corrupt humanity wouldn't aim at our capacity to destroy. He'd aim at our capacity to create.

https://t.co/VsQIMWKYkV

[Pastor Miles @PastorMiles]

Humans are a little lower than the angels.
And crowned with glory and honor.
And given dominion over all the works of God's hands.

The ranking and the role do not match.

That mismatch is precisely the point.

https://t.co/E70WQxXyfD

[Pastor Miles @PastorMiles]

@tommykeene This is interesting. I'd like more understanding of what happened. DM me.

[Pastor Miles @PastorMiles]

The industrial revolution needed a century to wreck and rebuild the labor market. Unions, antitrust, public education, safety nets—all forged in that time.

AI is compressing the same transformation into years.

The question is whether we have years.

https://t.co/YAOI7AzgZS

[Pastor Miles @PastorMiles]

Software engineers losing jobs isn't the story. They're the canary.

AI was built by engineers, for engineers—closest to the blast zone.

But the blast doesn't stop at GitHub. If your job runs through a screen, the shockwave is coming.

https://t.co/YAOI7AzgZS

[Pastor Miles @PastorMiles]

You're right that the tsunami is coming. The closer historical rhyme than most people realize: New Bedford, 1857. Wealthiest city per capita in America, built on whale oil. A generation after kerosene arrived, it was hollowed. The pattern hasn't changed in 170 years. The scale has.

https://t.co/ITGkh9eTeW

[Pastor Miles @PastorMiles]

The Whaling Collapse Came for New Bedford. We Said, "I Am Sorry." https://t.co/1wsNZ2Qz7P

[Pastor Miles @PastorMiles]

@fredgreco DM me... I have some important answers to your question.

[Pastor Miles @PastorMiles]

Cope is not hope. The Lump of Labor fallacy is historically valid as a macro observation over decades. It says nothing about the person who gets cut this quarter. The people making the "it's always been wrong" argument never seem to be the ones holding the box.

https://t.co/9TsXjOxMM0