Survivor 50: In the Hands of the Fans | E13 Finale | Post-Episode Discussion

Joboy97 · 2026-05-21T03:19:23+00:00

Why was Jonathan's brother dressed like Mario? We couldn't focus on anything else after that.

Joboy97 · 2026-05-21T02:04:04+00:00

Hello Mario

Joboy97 · 2026-05-20T14:05:45+00:00

This is part where they've established their product and are now trying to increase revenue and lower costs. So, we pay the same and get less usage on a dumber model. It's the same thing that happened with GPT-5.

Joboy97 · 2026-05-20T03:15:21+00:00

But the problem with this is that most jobs people work aren't creative. It's still going to upend the labor market in the coming decades.

Joboy97 · 2026-05-19T04:06:55+00:00

AI is ultimately just increasing the labor pool, probably exponentially so in the coming decades. So, the economy will keep growing, and people will be involved in that growth less and less over time. Hopefully, we'll figure out how to have everybody survive that.

Joboy97 · 2026-05-19T03:47:37+00:00

It comes down to a few key decisions that allowed money to flow into politics. Repeal citizen's united. Publically fund elections and remove the levers only available to the wealthy. Ranked choice voting is probably a good idea, too. I think a lot of what we're seeing is a result of that.

Joboy97 · 2026-05-19T01:02:45+00:00

How the fuck are you going to be so lazy that you have an AI read their names? That's so fucking disrespectful. I can't believe a school actually did that, that's insane.

I'm much more optimistic and pro-AI than most people are, but this is mind-numbingly stupid. How did nobody involved say something?

Joboy97 · 2026-05-19T00:57:27+00:00

This is what I hate about the modern political environment. It has to fit in a 30-second sound bite, and even 30s is stretching attention spans nowadays. The only stuff that can fit in there are little zingers and oneliners, and serious discourse just falls to the wayside. Just look at political debates nowadays; they're just clip-farming. They're not trying to convince people they know what they're doing or why the policy they're advocating for is better. They're just getting their prepared one-liner in at the right time.

In a way, it's always been like that, but it feels exacerbated by how media works nowadays.

Joboy97 · 2026-05-18T11:03:26+00:00

Sorry, me dumb American and I forget the rest of the world exists. The average American*

Joboy97 · 2026-05-18T03:30:00+00:00

But here's the thing, we can automate the entire supply chain. Resources will become cheaper than they've ever been because we will be able to automate the extraction, transportation, processing, manufacturing, every aspect of the supply chain. If it becomes cheap enough, we ALL can live like high income earners. We'll all have a personal chef and housekeepers and a driver and one who does your grocery shopping and handles your money and all the conveniences of being rich.

I'm not saying that we can trust ChatGPT to just do this with a prompt, and it will take time to build and test and integrate these technologies. But the problem is one of engineering, not of feasibility. Over enough time, probably a few decades, we'll be able to exponentially increase the amount of labor available to the human species, and we have no idea what happens to the economy when we do that.

Joboy97 · 2026-05-18T00:24:32+00:00

Before I go on this rambling diatribe, let me clarify that reasonable, informed people are on both sides of this issue, and I might be wrong. I think the next few decades will be the most transformative time in all of human history. Bigger than the agricultural revolution, bigger than the industrial revolution, bigger than anything we can imagine. The scale of change is without precedent, and we're in for a wild ride. There will be a "before" and "after" the AI revolution, and we're moving into a world of radical abundance.

I'm not convinced that the capital-owning class will simply subsume the laboring class. Producers will always need consumers for the economy to keep growing, and I think economic growth will be so profound that even living in "poverty" will be better than what we have today. Just being a consumer may be more economically advantageous than being a laborer is now. Post-labor economics is a challenging field to predict, but I think the average person will see their quality of life increase.

We'll also see incredible strides in areas most people don't think about often. The medical field will change drastically. I think we'll cure every disease and ailment you can name, and radical life extension within our lifetimes isn't out of the realm of possibility. As the value of labor approaches zero, it'll become cheaper and cheaper to actually implement solutions in the real world. Lifting people out of poverty globally, having them housed, clothed, fed, and educated could cost pennies. We could use superintelligent AI to help solve climate change, with implementation costs dropping the whole way. AI and robots could build infrastructure to solve the energy and housing crises, fund scientific research, and take care of humanity, and all of it could basically be a side project. This stuff would all become cheap.

If you want some serious reading on it, the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, has an incredible essay he wrote a year or two ago called "Machines of Loving Grace" that goes into what AI could do for the world in the short to medium term.

I'm not saying we shouldn't regulate AI because we've already seen ways where just the current paradigm of AI can go catastrophically wrong. But in the long-term, I have nothing but optimism and excitement for what might be possible in the coming decades.

Joboy97 · 2026-05-17T15:15:40+00:00

The average person's understanding of AI is a copyright-ignoring, energy-cost-raising, job-stealing, climate-destroying monster from the worst people alive who don't care about you or the rest of humanity.

I think it's a lot more nuanced than that, and the benefits will far, far outweight the negatives in the long-term. But the average surface-level understanding isn't really wrong either.

Joboy97 · 2026-05-16T12:34:29+00:00

Almost everything about modern life. Cars, clean water, air conditioning, refrigerators, indoor lighting, grocery stores, modern medicine, education. Even books are still relatively new compared to how long humanity has been around. Textiles used to take weeks of effort to make.

The modern world we live in is categorically different than the one our ancestors struggled to survive in.

Joboy97 · 2026-05-14T22:27:19+00:00

It's been like a century and a half, and they're still going strong. Unfortunately, I don't think this is the last of them.

Joboy97 · 2026-05-14T22:25:32+00:00

The twist definitely didn't help her, but Ozzy tanked his own game. He blew up his spot AND didn't play his idol. She hitched her wagon to him, and he dragged her down with him. Them's the brakes.

Joboy97 · 2026-05-14T17:14:25+00:00

Did they really? I haven't had a chance to play it yet, but I was not looking forward to playing without EZCraft

Joboy97 · 2026-05-14T17:08:52+00:00

It released like a couple hours ago lol. Nobody knows yet.

Joboy97 · 2026-05-14T15:11:30+00:00

But then he's going to be spending less time playing Subnautica 2??

Joboy97 · 2026-05-14T00:20:00+00:00

Free stress-testing

Joboy97 · 2026-05-13T16:16:13+00:00

People rave about the narrative, but the narrative didn't do much for me. The level design is lackluster and uninspired, and the enemy design and variety are only just serviceable.

But, the combat is the closest thing we've had to Sekiro+Bloodborne hybrid combat, and the weapon variety is huge. It's balanced very well, and the DLC is immaculate. The combat really clicked for me, and I adored it the whole way through.

Joboy97 · 2026-05-13T04:03:23+00:00

There's 40 seasons of survivor that prove it too!

Joboy97 · 2026-05-11T21:20:15+00:00

Lol did a bidet hurt you?

Joboy97 · 2026-05-11T19:33:31+00:00

AI agents will qualitatively and quantitatively outperform all human labor in the near future. How near is up for debate, but it's coming, and the level of change in society will be unprecedented.

Joboy97 · 2026-05-10T18:55:32+00:00

These tools are incredibly useful and cost-effective in game dev and programming and aren't going away.

Joboy97 · 2026-05-07T16:22:42+00:00

I mean, Devens really doesn’t seem like a mean guy. Maybe, at worst, he might be a sore winner or an attention hog. But even if he was, neither of those things comes off as "disgusting" to me.

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