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Maybe this won't age well, but why in the world would we want to completely be dependent on these data centers? We should be working towards the opposite and finding fidelity between data centers and local inference.
Erek Janus retweeted
It’s almost incomprehensible how wide the distance is between someone who’s working at the frontier with AI and basically everyone else right now.
The crazy thing is these lines are not converging, but only growing farther apart. If the curve of AI progress had leveled off, it would certainly have given most people and companies time to catch up or implement their workflows in a standardized way. The technology would have neutralized competitive advantage because everyone would be using it the same way.
But what’s happened is the opposite. The curve of AI progress is basically going vertical right now, which means if you had codified your processes 3-6 months ago you’re likely already behind again. Now imagine most companies that kicked into gear a year ago and thought that they were done. Even further behind now.
I’ve never seen a technology in my life and career that improves at this rate, which consequently means you need to upgrade your expectations at a similar rate. Our brains weren’t wired for this, and our organizational change management processes certainly weren’t either.
With any form of recursive self improvement, things just get wilder. It’s a time when you will need to be constantly reevaluating the things that didn’t work just a couple months ago to see if they now can be solved. AI native companies certainly have a strong advantage due to this right now, so now it comes down to can the bigger companies keep up. Wild times.
As others have mentioned, this is an issue of jumping too quickly into AI and throwing the world at it without measuring the evolution pragmatically against low-hanging fruit with high reward. These companies are now scarred, where other companies know better.
I haven't used Microsoft in 16 years. Not a single product from them, unless I was required to at a company, such as oneDrive or, obviously, for managing IT security and federated infrastructure. What's their moat?
If you want to save the tech worker, you need to promote policy at the federal level that requires companies to provide a very solid reason for pushing work offshore. A lot of the work is going offshore to folks that are also using AI themselves..
And I would highly recommend NOT using META Muse for anything PII
Three of the best things to do right now related to personal cybersecurity:
1) keep all your apps and OS (computer and phone) up to date and turn on automatic updates; Amazon had OS update requirements for employees where they would shut off your systems if you were running old OS, treat it that way
2) set up 2FA/MFA and prioritize passkeys/biometrics (ie Face ID and fingerprint); second choice is authenticator app; last resort is text confirmation code and at this point, I would consider that not safe enough
3) ask codex or claude code to run a diagnostic on your personal apps and systems including public-facing artifacts (ex: website), all apps in use, api keys, etc. ask it to do research on what is happening in the world with AI attacks + don’t just review your most common apps, review ALL and ask what to do/walk you through it step by step
Erek Janus retweeted
Three of the best things to do right now related to personal cybersecurity:
1) keep all your apps and OS (computer and phone) up to date and turn on automatic updates; Amazon had OS update requirements for employees where they would shut off your systems if you were running old OS, treat it that way
2) set up 2FA/MFA and prioritize passkeys/biometrics (ie Face ID and fingerprint); second choice is authenticator app; last resort is text confirmation code and at this point, I would consider that not safe enough
3) ask codex or claude code to run a diagnostic on your personal apps and systems including public-facing artifacts (ex: website), all apps in use, api keys, etc. ask it to do research on what is happening in the world with AI attacks + don’t just review your most common apps, review ALL and ask what to do/walk you through it step by step
Yep, this is my concern as well, and I do think we're going in that direction. Trust is all we're going to have when money serves no purpose and asset control is key, but then, will they be able to trust their own robots?
⚡️By 2040, humanity’s greatest problem will be the loss of its economic leverage over the systems that sustain it.
For all of history, power depended on people. Kings needed soldiers. Corporations needed workers. Governments needed taxpayers. Even the most powerful institutions had to negotiate with the populations whose labor kept them alive.
AI and robotics are beginning to break that dependency.
When machines can perform most intellectual and physical work, the owners of productive infrastructure gain something no ruling class has ever possessed at scale: the ability to generate enormous wealth with diminishing dependence on human participation.
That changes the balance of power at its foundation. A population whose labor is no longer essential loses one of its strongest instruments of negotiation. Even extraordinary material abundance cannot compensate for the disappearance of meaningful agency.
The central struggle of the AI age will be whether humanity retains control over a civilization that increasingly no longer requires its participation to function.
And that leads to the most consequential question of 2040:
What happens to human freedom when the people controlling the world’s productive machinery no longer need the consent of those who depend on it?
If you haven't started worrying, you need to start worrying, because any job that is a desk job is at extreme risk. It is just a matter of time before your company enables what is already available. Take precautions. Think clearly.
So we become a useless human race that just eats, breathes, breeds, and consumes, but what do we give back?
2 years from now you will not work you and will not worry about money
you will get your cash payments from from all the major AI labs
think of it like 3-5 companies giving you a thousand dollar check every week
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No major AI labs have announced or committed to universal $1000 weekly cash payments or an end to work/money concerns by 2028. Discussions involve speculative proposals and limited small-scale pilots, not firm company plans.
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Heads up, everybody. I think we all have seen the new Tesla, so it's okay if you don't repost it again. Kind of looking for other stuff on the feed too, lol.
Not sure who needs to hear this, but I'm Sad to see that somebody so relevant in the engineering world would suggest that this is not so familiar to how we ourselves work biologically. so far, math has defined everything we know.
Everyone's building the interface for their agentic OS and then the view of work getting done. I just took a slightly different approach. Here are some screenshots.
2027 will be a year completely focused on and consumed by zero-trust security rollouts across all of the engineering stacks at companies, or at least those that want to survive.
The work that Google and others are doing to make AI extremely sophisticated when it comes to video needs to become national news. It needs to be extremely publicized. The greatest danger is the general public, including those that support the public, not being aware.
Keep in mind, no matter how much this AI is automating things, people still don't want to work, they'll eventually pass the torch. The whole point is we like to be lazy. Responding to AI is still work.
Is pharma going to actually distribute the revolutionary medications and cures that we are going to get from this new wave of AI?
