I have no workable exit strategy because I have small children and our family has been continuously under layoffs and terminations.

If the doom really comes to pass then what future is there for us? I fear a life of impecunious servitude and poverty more than death.

Regardless of the future you have to plan for the worst and hope for the best.

I don't have time to post significantly about it but I'd love to trade thoughts and figure this out.

Email?

Our ancestors survived worse. Wait out for the rainbow after the storm. Adjust and take it easy.

Uhm, our ancestors haven’t faced anything like this.

This is the only time in the history of mankind, where you have a near global ruling elite trying to replace labor totally with mechanised thinking machines.

The closest we can compare to is the off shoring in the 80s/90s.

If productive output really stays the same while employment (and tax revenue) drops, there are only two ways for the government to stay solvent: 1. Print money 2. Increase taxation

That’s it. An eroding tax base necessitates one of those or a combination.

sure, but also looking at the pattern of who is involved - they could also declare bankruptcy (even if federal gov’t bankruptcy isn’t actually a thing).

I would really like to know the origin story better. Accounts make it sound like Terence learned to read and arithmetic completely on his own by being plopped in front of Sesame Street.

That strains credulity. Those familiar with common Chinese parenting strategies know how involved and directly instructed they can be at times. How much of that has been downplayed (And for what purpose)?

I don’t mean to undermine any of Tao’s achievements. They are unassailable. But I genuinely want to know a true account of what it took to get him there.

> But I genuinely want to know a true account of what it took to get him there.

I guess it's being one of the biggest geniuses in the history. Why people find it so hard to accept that there can be HUGE differences in intellectual capabilities and that parenting does not account for even 1% of that? I can bet that if Tao's parents did same things they did for him to 1000 of random children, none would come even remotely close to Tao.

You _guess_. It’s quite acceptable, but still learning from watching Sesame Street?

Did you miss the part where this is a scenario written for two years in the future?

When the current administration is still in power?

I get the optimism and excitement about space exploration. But that is a huge leap from the more ordinary and dystopia step you described:

The economy becomes a hedonistic mill of entertainment - where most people will only be passive consumers.

This runs counter to the advice in the fine article: one long continuous session building context.

> So long Facebook, see you never, until one day I inexplicably need to use your platform to get updates from my kid's school.

This part here kills me. I’ve also been forced to engage in the Zuckerverse. I hate WhatsApp.

This part was a long description of the zeitgeist in SF; it was not meant to be the author’s own opinion.

I realize that now, and feel a bit foolish for being triggered by it. It's too late for me to edit my comment now though.

I think your reflexive disagreement is a testimony to the point of the article. And the fact that you didn't immediately notice what was the authors view vs what they were relaying, may be testimony to the author's good writing.

I found it to be an unexpectedly evocative piece, a kind of poetic prose style that I don't see very often in journalism, let alone tech journalism. Each word seemed carefully chosen to make the reader almost fell like they were there, witnessing, understanding.

So, I can imagine the author being a little pleased that you reacted to that passage with a sudden skepticism. Seems like a very successful case of 'show, don't tell'.

You can’t put Gemini and Meta in the same sentence. Llama 4 was DOA, and Meta has given up on frontier models. Internally they’re using Claude.

After spending all that money and firing a bunch of people? Is the new group doing anything at this point?

They are busy demonstrating that Mark Zuckerberg has no sense at all.

“The better that Meta does, the more money I will be able to invest in science research”

That’s an impressive amount of arrogance.

Find this to be plausible, meta needs to do more science of how to make things more addictive…

But you don’t understand. There won’t be any science if he is taxed because then he will leave and take all the money with him.

He is producing all the value, he doesn’t need anything from other people or the system that made him

> But you don’t understand. There won’t be any science if he is taxed because then he will leave and take all the money with him.

It's sad how many people truly believe this. Intelligent people, including tech workers, many of which have mistakenly convinced themselves they're not part of the working class.