This picture of Mickey standing next to the Disney logo reminds me of Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes, in those pictures where he is peeing on something.
If you don't get at least SMR (small modular nuclear reactors), the jig is up.Saw this article the other day about how OpenAI is screwed. Oh, and don’t expect AI magic to circumvent hard material limits of dwindling non-renewable natural resources.
At this point, the only real question is whether the tech-bro elites know this and are pitching everything into AI in a Hail Mary attempt to build a super intelligence to come up with some brilliant tech breakthrough to solve our energy and material needs, or if they’re just trying to hoard the deck chairs of the Titanic before it sinks, so they can live their satanic elite Epstein Island fantasy while 99% of humanity is kicked back to the Stone Age ala Peter Thiel/Curtis Yarvin. There’s also the possibility that they’re actually short sighted idiots with delusions of grandeur who are too dumb to realize they’ve dug themselves into a hole. Lots of possibilities are on the table.
Personally, I think the Eschaton happens before we run out of oil and/or a super intelligent AI takes over the world for five minutes, but this is mostly my writer’s instinct gut feeling talking.
He compared the future of work to gardening. "It's much harder to grow vegetables in your backyard, but some people still do it because they like growing vegetables," he said."That will be what work is like: optional."
So if we grow tomatoes in our backyard, we’ll get paid $200k a year and no worries about inflation eroding our standard of living? Ok sign me up Elon, I’m on board.I somehow don't think this will pan out for people. At least not the way they want.
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Elon Musk says AI and robotics will make money 'irrelevant'
Speaking at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum, Elon Musk predicted a future where money is "irrelevant" and work is "optional."www.businessinsider.com
He thinks because the sun can theoretically harnassed and they have the technologically, technically, to do much of it, that they will. But practicality is another thing entirely, as you have stated.He’s going to find out the hard way that you can’t have infinite growth without infinite energy and infinite natural resources, both of which are about to get a lot more expensive and scarce as the inexpensive and accessible oil wells and mines dry up.