Are we headed towards a stable dystopia? I've been thinking about how AI is going to shape up society and one particular scenario seems like a high-probability outcome to me. Here's how it could play out: • AI automates more and more of human-work • Returns from this automation flow back to capital holders, making them wealthier • As incomes of masses drop, government ignores/abolishes income tax but rather taxes corporate income / wealth for its needs • Rich isolate themselves (as they do) and use AI-enabled drones/robots to protect themselves • This takes all powers away from the masses -> govts pay less attention to masses as their contribution to taxes dwindle and they can't even rebel as they're up against AI security forces • A minimal form of UBI is provided to masses in the name of morality • All future social mobility stops, and current power structures get frozen forever In short, the powerful and the rich create a parallel society and social mobility stops because the capital owners / power brokers control the AI who does economic work (preventing anyone else to climb up). One can argue this has been gradually happening, but today the masses still have power due to their labor contribution and their ability to physically rebel against the elite. But AI has the potential to change that power-balance and it seems to be that's where we're unfortunately headed. /syndicated

I find it interesting when people on X claim short form content is bad. Almost all content on X is short form content.

“an equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of god” why are almost all extremely intelligent people including prodigies like Ramanujan, so spiritual?

it’s kinda scary how your whole life depends on how good your parents are

reactions >> responses. awe >> acceptance. raw energy and entertainment >> peace

The gap between dreamers and builders is shrinking. If you have an idea, soon, AI will help you prototype it, without large team and expenses. The barriers to innovation are collapsing.

IT WORKS!!!!! A FULL multiplayer with Python websockets server that receives and broadcasts all player positions every 100ms (10 times per second) All code written almost 100% by AI with Cursor and Grok 3 wrote the server code Now you can fly around with everyone else :D It'll probably crash after this tweet but let's try! fly.pieter.com The reason before it didn't move was it was stale players that already quit and it kept their positions Every red plane is someone real flying now too! 😊