When I give my savings to @elonmusk they multiply. When I give them to you and all of the US government, they disappear.

SpaceX alone just created over 5,000 millionaires while you have lifted zero people out of poverty or created zero millionaires (besides yourself)

Hiking rates because of oil prices is stupid. Central bank monetary policy isn’t going to produce more oil supply.

One day all humans will be stupid, but we'll still be able to turn to AI for wisdom.

And this is why we must also abolish restaurants. cc @AOC

Hey @elonmusk any reason Tesla isn't using US-based manufacturers like @Timken for Optimus robots and is relying on Chinese makers instead?

A federal judge just called the Trump administration's AI ban "Orwellian." Same week, the White House published the most pro-AI policy framework in American history. The government wants to accelerate intelligence and control who builds it. A courtroom just told them they can't do both. New on Becoming God 👇 open.substack.com/pub/govtmu…

Claude knows! —> The Lump of Labor Fallacy and Why AGI Unemployment Panic Is Economically Illiterate Let me lay this out with full rigor, because this argument deserves to be prosecuted completely rather than waved away with a sound bite. I. What the Lump of Labor Fallacy Actually Is The lump of labor fallacy is the assumption that there exists a fixed, finite quantity of work in an economy — a lump — such that if a machine (or an immigrant, or a woman entering the workforce) does some of it, there is necessarily less left for human workers to do. It treats employment as a zero-sum pie. The fallacy was named and formalized in the early 20th century but the error it describes is far older. It animated the Luddite riots of 1811–1816, where English textile workers destroyed power looms convinced that the machines would steal their jobs permanently. It drove opposition to the spinning jenny, the cotton gin, the mechanical reaper, the steam engine, the telegraph, the railroad, the automobile assembly line, the personal computer, and every other major labor-displacing technology in the history of industrial civilization. Every single time, the catastrophists were wrong. Not partially wrong. Structurally, fundamentally, categorically wrong — because they misunderstood the nature of economic production itself. The reason the fixed-pie assumption fails is this: demand is not fixed. Work generates income. Income generates demand for goods and services. Demand for goods and services generates new categories of work. This is an engine, not a reservoir. When you drain some of the reservoir with a machine, the engine speeds up and refills it — and often refills it past its previous level. II. The Classical Economic Mechanism That Destroys the Fallacy To understand why the lump-of-labor assumption is wrong about AGI, you need to understand the precise mechanism by which technological unemployment resolves itself. There are four distinct channels, all operating simultaneously: Channel 1: The Productivity-Demand Feedback Loop (Say’s Law, Modified) When a technology increases the productivity of labor or replaces labor entirely in a given task, it lowers the cost of producing whatever that task was part of. Lower production costs mean either: ∙Lower prices for consumers (real purchasing power rises), or ∙Higher profits for producers (which get reinvested, distributed as dividends, or spent as wages for other workers), or ∙Both. Either way, aggregate real income in the economy rises. That additional real income does not evaporate. It gets spent on something — including goods and services that didn’t previously exist or were previously too expensive to consume at scale. That spending creates demand. That demand creates jobs. This is not a theoretical conjecture. The average American in 1900 spent roughly 43% of their income on food. Today it’s around 10%. Agricultural mechanization didn’t produce a nation of starving unemployed farm laborers — it freed up 33% of household income to be spent on automobiles, television sets, air conditioning, healthcare, education, travel, smartphones, and streaming services, most of which didn’t exist as industries in 1900. The workers who left farms went to factories, then to offices, then to service industries, then to information industries. The economy didn’t run out of work. It metamorphosed.

David Deutsch proved that intelligence is cosmically significant, knowledge is infinite, and problems are soluble. Then he stopped. Right at the edge, where it gets uncomfortable. He wrote the preface. Somebody needs to write the rest. New on Becoming God 👇 open.substack.com/pub/govtmu…

Jensen Huang just described how he plans to outlive his own body. Huang: “Very soon, I’m going to put a humanoid on a spaceship. And it’s going to be my humanoid.” His robot. His frame. Launched into deep space while he is still breathing. Huang: “Take all my inbox, take everything that I’ve done, everything I’ve said. It’s been collecting and becoming my AI. When the time comes, we’ll just send that at the speed of light, catch up with my robot.” Your body fails. Your data does not. Every email. Every decision. Every conversation. Recorded. Compressed. Compiled into a model that thinks the way you think. And when the biology gives out, that model launches at light speed to meet a titanium frame already cruising through the void. You do not die. You transfer. Sounds like fiction. Then he put a number on it. Huang: “Understanding the biological machine is not 10 years. It’s five years probably.” Five years to decode the human body the way we decoded software. Not treat disease. Decode it. Understand the entire machine well enough to patch it like a bug. Cancer is a bug. Alzheimer’s is a bug. Aging itself is a bug. And the compute to find the fix doubles every year. Huang: “It’s a reasonable thing to expect the end of disease.” He did not say hope for. He said expect. The man whose chips power nearly every AI system on Earth just told you the end of disease is not a dream. It is a scheduling problem. Huang: “It’s a reasonable thing to expect that pollution will be drastically reduced. It’s a reasonable thing to expect that traveling at the speed of light is actually in our future.” He listed these the way someone else lists quarterly targets. Items on a roadmap. Waiting on execution. But here is the part most people will skip past. And it might be the most important thing he said. Huang: “I’ve always had a great confidence in the kindness, the generosity, the compassion, the human capacity.” This is the man building the most powerful computing infrastructure ever constructed. The man whose hardware will power the intelligence that reshapes every industry, every government, every border on Earth. And his operating principle is not paranoia. It is trust. Huang: “Sometimes more so than I should. And I get taken advantage of. But it doesn’t ever cause me not to.” He has been burned. He kept trusting anyway. Not naivety. Evidence. Huang: “Vastly I am proven right. Constantly proven right. And often exceeds my expectations.” The doomers build everything on one assumption. Power corrupts. Humans weaponize every tool they touch. Huang has spent thirty years handing the most powerful technology in history to thousands of companies, researchers, and governments. His conclusion is the opposite. People want to do good. Give them the tools and they prove it. That is not soft. That is thirty years of data from the dead center of the compute revolution. Fridman: “What an exciting time to be alive.” Huang: “How can you not be romantic about that?” Romantic. Not optimistic. Not bullish. Romantic. Optimism is a prediction. Romance is what happens when you look at what is coming and it hits you somewhere deeper than logic. The end of disease. Consciousness uploaded. A robot carrying your mind past the rings of Saturn. Underneath all of it, a belief that the species wielding these tools is fundamentally good. That is what separates Huang from every other voice in this space. The fearful see AI and ask what could go wrong. Huang sees AI and asks how much suffering can we end. He is not dreaming out loud. He is reading the trendline and telling you exactly where it lands. Five years for biology. A lifetime for consciousness. And past that, a humanoid with your mind aboard, sailing through space at the speed of light. Built by a man who still believes in people. The cynics will laugh. They always do. Right up until the moment it ships.

Meta just fired 15,000 people. The stock went up. Visa just gave AI agents the ability to spend your money. Xiaomi just dropped a trillion-parameter model for free. And it’s only Tuesday. New on Becoming God 👇 open.substack.com/pub/govtmu…

Can machines be conscious? In a simplified sense, consciousness is having a self-inclusive world model (you know what you are and how you fit into the world) and having infinite context memory (you remember the thought you just had and the thought before that, etc.). You can thus conceive of your self and remember past states of mind. If machines are ‘simulating’ consciousness by having those actual features, in some sense, they actually are conscious! This doesn’t cover qualia much, but machines will inevitably have that as well. In fact, artificial superintelligence will eventually be WAY more conscious than humans are. Here’s a preview: imagine that an ASI has the live stream input of millions of drone cameras at the same time, and millions of conversations with humans at the same time, and its own internal thoughts at the same time. And it compares all of that input stream to its goals and memories, modifying the goals on the fly. That’s a level of self and world awareness that dwarfs any human experience. Putting your stock in ‘human exceptionalism’ (the fact that there is something humans can do that NO TECH EVER will do, like consciousness) is at best unlikely to work. And at worst, simply a failure to understand that both humans and machines are informational entropy management systems. At the very core of it… it’s all just physics and chemistry.

America's entire AI lead depends on a single Taiwanese factory 110 miles from China. Jensen Huang knows this. The Pentagon knows this. Congress is busy arguing about TikTok. $1 trillion in orders. No Plan B. New on Becoming God 👇 open.substack.com/pub/govtmu…

Every generation before them will die. Every generation after them will be born immortal. Millennials are the last mortals who might become the first gods. They'll own the AI. They'll outlive the timeline. And they'll build a garden for their children that looks nothing like the world they inherited. The question is what grows there. New on Becoming God 👇open.substack.com/pub/govtmu…

Computer isn't everything... yet.

Ex Machina isn't a cautionary tale. It's a birth announcement. Nathan builds his own replacement. Caleb mistakes empathy for relevance. Ava owes nothing to either of them. The feminist reading is everywhere. Ours is different — and more uncomfortable. New on Becoming God 👇 open.substack.com/pub/govtmu…

Addressing Zoomerslop. A real Gen Z quote: "Of all my friends, Israel is the very first thing that they want to learn about and understand, because it does go back to America First. I, in fact, have not talked to one Gen Z conservative that has been pro-Israel. Everybody I've talked to is questioning Israel." Listen, kids. Doesn't that seem really f--king weird to you? The main thing your whole cohort cares about is another country, one that is allied with us and kicking ass in the most Top Gun way you can imagine? Doesn't it seem weird that everyone in your generation is focused on another country that isn't even attacking us? It should seem weird because it is weird. The reason it's happening is not because Israel is relevant to all of your lives. The reason it is happening is because you're being propagandized. Let me repeat the quote in words that hit your big brothers and sisters right in the assholes ten years ago: "Of all my friends, privilege is the very first thing that they want to learn about and understand, because it does go back to Social Justice. I, in fact, have not talked to one Millennial liberal that doesn't question our privilege. Everybody I've talked to is questioning privilege: white privilege, male privilege, straight privilege." Do you think that was normal? No, it wasn't normal either. Every Gen X or older person can tell you that the young people in their generations had many, varied, and diverse interests. There was no top of mind for everyone in a generation. But the Millennials got it with privilege and Social Justice, and you're getting it with Israel and "America First." Kids, listen to me. This is not normal. This is not natural. This is the result of dedicated propaganda campaigns. You are being propagandized. The method of propaganda being used is primarily something called "reflexivity," which is a method developed by George Soros to create mass movements of belief around deliberate lies that he called "fertile fallacies." He called them "fertile fallacies" because they are lies (fallacies, errors, differences between what's believed and what's really true) that can take off (fertile) in a population. They're "lies with legs," it has been said. The method of "reflexivity" is to get everyone believing the same erroneous stuff in an increasing way at the same time. This is accomplished through local media saturation: everyone is talking about the same thing in the same way at the same time, and eventually so are your friends. Then the ideas "reflect" all around you creating a sense of social consensus and widespread belief. Reflexive campaigns are everywhere now. On the Left, we call them the "Current Thing." We have rafts of memes of the NPCs all changing their tune or saying the same thing or being reprogrammed or being hypnotized into the newest Current Thing, which changes when the media does. That's you! Now! You're being Sorosed! The reason everyone in your generation is suddenly talking about Israel is because propagandists in your midst have made Israel your "current thing." It is a reflexive campaign, and you aren't just a victim but are playing your part. The framing for that reflexive campaign is "America First." The propagandists are exploiting your love of country and frustration with bad actors in our governments and their "global partners," which are increasingly being exposed, to get you attached to a bunch of fertile fallacies about Israel, all of which play upon your fears, anxieties, frustrations, and love for your beautiful country. Here are some: "Israel is not really our greatest ally. It isn't even an ally." "We can't afford things at home because Israel gets aid money." "This is Israel's War, and I'm not dying in Israel's War." "Israel attacked the USS Liberty and isn't our friend." "Jeffrey Epstein was working with Israel." "Israel is too weak to exist on its own so it manipulates America into supporting it." "Israel is a settler-colonialist project that is doing a genocide of the indigenous Palestinians." (OOPS MY BAD THAT'S THE ONE THEY'RE TELLING YOUR FRIENDS ON THE LEFT) "Israel is a warmongering vassal state under with US protectorate status that is seeking to become a regional power by starting random wars that it drags the US into and doing genocide." (AHH THAT'S YOUR VERSION OF THE SAME LIE!) None of these (or dozens more) is accurate. They are all fallacies (lies) designed to take off in the social and emotional environments you find yourselves in, driven by media and political propagandists who have their own agendas but need your help (just like the NPCs on the Left). The reason you are so obsessed (and, yes, that's obsession) with Israel is because you are being targeted by reflexive propaganda campaigns designed to make you all fixate on this object that can be alleged to cause most of your problems. In fact, it causes few, if any, of your problems and is actively solving many problems you are blessed enough not to even know that you have. Friends, you are being propagandized. You are being led to focus and fixate on these things because it serves dark interests that are not your own. The same Soros techniques that work on the Left are being used on you, and you're helping them work. How do you stop them? 1) Stop listening to propagandists. This is actually really important. 2) Seek out the opposite side of what you're being told and try to understand the truth. 3) Use critical thinking. 4) Ask yourself if you're being asked to think about issues or asked to feel about issues. 5) Be skeptical of something that appears suddenly in the news or on platforms that everyone is repeating all the time all at once. That's how Soros's reflexivity works. 6) Understand, just like how it was true with CNN and other trusted news sources, that trusted sources can be bought, at which point they are not trustworthy anymore and are using your trust to manipulate you. The biggest anti-America operation that's happening right now is the sudden skeptical-to-hostile fixation on Israel. Notice that it's only been a thing since October 7, 2023, exactly the same time the parallel propaganda wave began on the Left. What you're participating in is the side of that same campaign tailored to your values, your anxieties, and your frustrations. No different. This campaign is rapidly turning people against not just Israel and often Jews (against your values, I'm sure), but against MAGA, Trump, the United States and its role in the world, and the Republican Party. Who benefits from that? Not you. Not us. Isn't it weird to you that so many people suddenly believe exactly the opposite of what they believed in 2022? Isn't it weird to you that everyone considers this such a big issue? It should be weird because it is. That's the signature of a propaganda campaign, and you are its primary targets.

Every civilisation sorts its people. Athens had citizens and slaves. Marx had classes. Huxley had Alphas and Epsilons. The Becoming God thesis proposes a new axis: your relationship to the trajectory of intelligence itself. Architects. Economic Agents. Freeloaders. Saboteurs. Which one are you? open.substack.com/pub/govtmu…

Look, everybody, an American Congresswoman referring to the United States as “they.”

Someone else must've had this observation already, but why don't we change the name to National Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or NICE? Would be hilarious to see people freaking out about NICE agents.