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dad, engineer, husky enthusiast, artist

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@WOLF_TradingX SO 😂 😂 😂

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@WallStreetApes Ashtray coffee

[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???

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@omg21btc @BrianRoemmele @grok I’ve found that the combination of Grok and Gemini works very well in OC. I use Claude for security reviews of the code, but it rarely finds anything

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@jstamby @AlexFinn I believe his second Mac Studio was a gift from Apple.

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@elonmusk Tried putting my Openclaw orchestrator on 4.2 and it completely failed.

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@elonmusk A good AI should focus on quality vs quantity. There’s probably about 500 books on business, philosophy, fiction, and nonfiction that would be all it would need to use.

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@WallStreetApes Only if connected to WiFi, which I’ve never done with my”smart” TVs

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@AlexFinn After April 4th Claude will ban Openclaw usage 🤷. I’ve been switching to all local models

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@XFreeze They started using up my tokens 2 days ago. I’m not even a heavy user and was at 90% of my allotted usage by 10am

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@AlexFinn Using Qwen3.5 and qwen3-coder-next right now. Looking to get the rest of the agents local too

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In a few weeks the most powerful AI model of all time Claude Mythos will release

This makes me deeply nervous

Not because of cybersecurity risks or anything like that

But because it will quite obviously be significantly more expensive which will cause the wealth gap to explode

Let me explain

First the obvious: tokens aren’t getting cheaper. In fact, they’re getting significantly more expensive

Almost every new version of ChatGPT and Claude brings a slight bump in price over the last one

And plans haven’t been going down either, they’re only coming out with more expensive ones.

ChatGPT Pro plan for $250 a month. Claude Max for $200.

GPUs, RAM, CPUs all going up in price.

And now Mythos, which the leaked blog post hinted won’t even be included in a plan. It will only be in the API for what will be an astronomical cost.

And do you seriously doubt this won’t lead to an upcoming $2,000 a month Ultra plan that every other AI company will immediately copy?

It’s one thing to make luxury items more expensive. It’s another thing to make intelligence more expensive.

Intelligence that is critical to getting ahead in a crumbling economy.

Let’s just call it what it is: using AI gives you an advantage against everyone else. Those with AI are keeping their jobs. Those not using AI are losing their jobs

Now a new level of intelligence that will only be accessible to the rich is coming out.

Only the rich will be able to use this super intelligence to create more economic value than others.

What happens to the people that can’t afford Mythos? Or ChatGPT 6? They are left with a major disadvantage in the economic battlefield.

Then on top of that, both OpenAI and Anthropic are going to IPO this year (it’s killing the middle class that this didn’t happen years ago, but that’s another story)

They both are heavily incentivized right now to explode revenue as much as they can. They both are incentivized to make these new models as expensive as humanly possible.

The middle class is already gutted. A middle class without access to the intelligence that the upper class will have will only gut them further.

If a job position is between someone in the middle class with Claude Sonnet, and someone in the upper class with Claude Mythos, the Claude Mythos candidate with 100% get the job. It’s like a ballet dancer getting in a weight lifting competition with someone on insane amounts of steroids.

Or say someone with Claude Opus has a genius idea for a business, and someone with Claude Mythos gets the same one. The one with Claude Mythos will release a significantly better product much much faster, crushing the person with Opus.

I’m very pro-capitalist. In fact, I might be a radical capitalist. But at the same time this country (and this world) needs a middle class.

I don’t know the answers or solution. There probably isn’t one.

I honestly don’t even know what I’m trying to achieve with this post. I just have gotten incredibly scared over the last few days thinking about this scenario.

I think the best plan of action at the moment is to just create as much economic value as you possibly can right now. (Ethically) earn as much money as possible. Save everything. If you want to compete in the future, you’re going to need to be able to afford the top tier intelligence. It’s critical for you and your family to survive.

But in the meantime, don’t let anyone tell you intelligence is going to become “too cheap to meter”.

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@psimatrix @HustleBitch_ UMich was working on unmanned, AI driven fighters in the 90s. They would put them in dog fights (target locks) against humans and AI won every time with an accuracy of over 90%

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I think the key difference between historical technological advances and AGI is that skills were replaced, not the human. If AGI is reached and can replace most human “thinking” jobs, then the human is out of the loop and must find something physical to do. The outcome of this scenario will depend solely on the demand for physical labor. This also leads to another potential issue: robots. If human physical and mental labor are replaced by robots and AI, then what kind of economy would this be? I don’t think we have any direct example of this in history.

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@UPS You can't even process a simple change of address. Absolutely atrocious. You lost the label and now starting over completely from the beginning.

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@kloss_xyz Same. Gave up on Mission Control and had it build Obsidian Bases to track work. Took 2 hours to get nailed down and getting more done already

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@gpatterson828 Cable

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@elonmusk Just had a similar conversation with Gemini and they’ve gotten better since last year. Actually admitted the dangers of woke ideology, as well as the dangers of humans imbuing AI models with their biases. It’s not as central as Grok yet, but some progress is being made

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@Pallavi04851531 @elonmusk @XeeingSmile Been using Grok for a year, and Gemini, GPT, and Claude for 6 months. I’m down to Grok and Gemini.