Sam Altman is selling the commoditization of intelligence. What does the economy look like in a world where you can get metered human-level language and reasoning on demand?

I don’t believe we’re close to that, but it’s still an interesting thought exercise. How much more worthless can human life get under capitalism?

Software people made themselves valuable pushing the narrative that they could automate away other jobs. The idea sold like hot cake, and digital transformation became a story of displacement instead of augmentation.

Now it turns out that software development became so valuable and abundant that it became the ideal target for LLMs, so bots writing code are taking off even before self driving vehicles. Inadvertently developers made themselves a single point of failure for labour, then imploded.

Good on Texas for having an upcoming progressive (at least for Texas) politician that is broadly appealing, ie a white evangelical guy.

But I will never not find it funny that his surname is slang (in pt_BR) for someone who gets involved (sexually) with a friends’ partner, probably because of a song from the early 90’s