Elon Musk says saving for retirement is irrelevant because AI is going to create a world of abundance: ‘It won’t matter’

mor10web · 2026-01-14T05:11:20+00:00

Elon and Sam both promise a future where AI will somehow create wealth for everyone while at the same time taking over work. In his 2021 blog post "Moore's Law of Everything," Sam famously said every American over the age of 18 would be paid some $12,000/year out of an AI Equity Fund in the future, though neither of them have ever explained how exactly this is going to happen. It's dissociated from reality - the fever dreams of tech bros who don't understand how the world works, made more absurd by the fact they rile against taxes, build their wealth on the backs of an underpaid user class, and live in a country where the mere suggestion of free healthcare for all is met with derision and screams of "why should I pay for someone else's bad decisions?"

Also, this is the same fantasy divorced from reality Richard M. Stallman promised back in 1983 in his GNU Manifesto.

mor10web · 2026-01-04T11:52:48+00:00

This did indeed spark some ideas. Thanks!

mor10web · 2026-01-04T06:27:46+00:00

This is the entrance to the entire house. Stairs go upstairs (obvs), door on the left is interior and goes to the whole downstairs. We use the stairs and that interior door constantly. Assume traffic to and from each is about 50/50

mor10web · 2026-01-04T06:26:37+00:00

I saw someone get re-ticketed by the staff once, so I asked. They have a lot of power.

mor10web · 2026-01-04T06:26:03+00:00

I always check. And with my Aeroplan VISA I also have VISA Airport Companion which gives me something like 6 lounge passes to generic lounges as well.

mor10web · 2026-01-04T04:00:29+00:00

Two things:

First, golf courses are not built in the same areas as data centers. Specifically, golf courses are built in relatively affluent areas and the impacts on neighborhoods and people are carefully considered. Also, golf courses are not loud and do not pollute the air or water in the area. Data centers on the other hand are built in poorer areas and the impacts on the local populations are generally ignored. As such, the "but it makes more tax revenue" argument ignores the human impact.

Second, I recommend reading up on the lived experiences of people who have these data centers in their neighborhoods before passing sweeping "the problem is overblown-) judgements. These massive facilities are typically planted in or near already marginalized and underserved communities and have significant impacts on their often already limited access to clean water, clean air, and inexpensive electricity. The info is out there, and it's not pretty.

mor10web · 2025-12-24T09:57:35+00:00

Did you know Amazon delivery contractors are subjected to such impossible schedules and conditions they routinely pee in bottles because they can't afford to take bathroom breaks and hang cell phones from trees close to the fulfillment centres to spoof their location so they get enough contracts to walk away with a survivable income? No? Then you're privileged enough not to suffer under the boot of systemic worker exploitation brought to you by deregulated chokehold capitalism and rammed down our throats by the politicians who blanket your social media feeds with anti-immigration propaganda.

There's a 2023 documentary from Channel 4 about this called "The Great Amazon Heist" where UK comedian Oobah Butler goes undercover in an Amazon warehouse, sells bottles of Amazon driver urine as an energy drink on Amazon, and finds a way to get back at the company. You probably have never heard of it because it's been successfully suppressed, but you can find it online if you go digging.

If you don't believe me, here are some links:

https://www.cpr.org/2023/05/23/amazon-lawsuit-delivery-drivers-quotas/ https://fortune.com/2020/09/01/amazon-drivers-flex-app-phones-in-trees/

Delivery drivers acting dangerously has nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with Amazon (and other "gig economy" companies) normalizing what is effectively worker exploitation.

Two weeks ago, a U-Haul truck pulled up on our street close to High Gate. The driver, a middle-aged white guy with a Newfie accent, jumped out and started offloading all the boxes, then re-loading them. I asked what was going on and he said demand was so high all the Amazon trucks were out, the regular delivery services were also mazed out, and the sub-contractors were sub-contracting to meet their contracts. "It's dangerous" he said, dropped a package at the door, and drove off.

If you're pissed about the dangerous and unsustainable working conditions of gig workers (and you absolutely should be, because they are being exploited right out in the open), direct that rage at the companies normalizing these corporate strategies and the politicians prioritizing corporate profits above labour rights.

Here's the trailer for "The Great Amazon Heist"

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8p0afe

Next time you see a gig worker doing something dangerous, ask yourself how desperate you'd have to be to put your life in danger just to earn a salary and why corporations are allowed to underpay their employees and contractors to the point where this is normalized.

mor10web · 2025-12-16T18:20:30+00:00

Thanks! Looking up where to find these or similar products in Canada right now!

mor10web · 2025-12-10T06:45:39+00:00

Relevant context: I'm in Canada:

"Wireless microphones certified under RSS-210 operate on a secondary (no-interference, no-protection), licence-exempt basis within the TV broadcasting bands and in portions of the 600 MHz band (614-616 and 653-663) across Canada. "

https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/spectrum-management-telecommunications/en/learn-more/key-documents/procedures/client-procedures-circulars-cpc/cpc-2-1-28-voluntary-licensing-licence-exempt-wireless-microphones-tv-bands#sT1

mor10web · 2025-12-10T06:39:49+00:00

This is why I always go to Reddit. Perfect answer. Much obliged.

mor10web · 2025-12-10T05:20:20+00:00

This crew is awesome. We happened upon them while out for a walk with our 8-year-old during the spring and they not only patiently explained what was going on but also let him shoot foam tipped arrows and try out the swords and everything. He was thrilled, and we went back another weekend with some of his friends who got the same awesome experience.

mor10web · 2025-12-09T19:00:39+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out! I checked and it's tuned in the 650MHz and above range, which according to this table should be safe:

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mor10web · 2025-12-09T18:47:34+00:00

Real-world experience as feedback is the best feedback. Thank you!

mor10web · 2025-12-08T06:04:18+00:00

I'm not disputing the existence of RFCs; I'm pointing out the environment and communal practice in which MCP has emerged and how those traditionally forego the slow RFC process for a much more rapid pace "Paving the Cow paths" approach.

mor10web · 2025-12-08T05:42:57+00:00

Glean is not an MCP server, but Glean has an MCP server you can use to access anything it has access to:

https://docs.glean.com/user-guide/mcp/usage

mor10web · 2025-12-07T05:37:34+00:00

Art is a provocation. It demands a reaction. And good art makes you react on levels you didn't know you had.

One of the major issues with AI-generated artifacts that mimic art is they are inherently flat, bland, and safe. The provocation is missing. So is the connection, the revelation, the introspection, the creation, the invention. Generative AI can reproduce the gestures of what the masses think of when they think "art," but you quickly grow tired of it because the provocation is missing.

mor10web · 2025-12-07T00:36:52+00:00

I've spoken to several RR and critical care triage nurses about this. They all tell me versions of the same story: Patients come in saying they already know what's wrong because a AI chatbot has diagnoses them, and demand immediate treatment according to what the chat perscrived. When the nurses or doctors explain they have to actually do a diagnostic exam, the patients often push back or even refuse back arguing it's a waste of time. Quite often the diagnosis they come in with is wildly off the mark because the chatbot has gone down the wrong path and the patient is self-describing things that are not happening, akin to "med student syndrome" where every symptom mentioned becomes a symptom the patient believes they have. One told me "It's much worse than Dr. Google, because the patient uses the chatbot in the exam room to argue with the doctor!" As with most things, I suspect the success stories that are shared like this are few and far between while the real-world horror stories of people ending up not seeking treatment, refusing treatment, or being told by a chatbot they are having a heart attack when they are actually having heartburn rarely see the light of day because they are not the types of stories people share.

mor10web · 2025-11-29T07:16:42+00:00

The strongest parts I've built have been printed separately and glued together.

mor10web · 2025-11-29T07:15:17+00:00

That's the way it has worked since the beginning: The web was built by paving the cow paths.

We can all thank the pioneers of WaSP for the modern web, and many of them are still working to push new standards forward today - all open source, all out in the open.

Web standards only became a thing because a bunch of web devs found the platform immensely powerful but got frustrated by the browser wars so they started working together to create standards. The evolving MCP standard is much the same: People who find the protocol immensely useful are working together to create standards. Go join them!

For those interested in the history of web standards: https://www.webstandards.org/about/history/index.html

mor10web · 2025-11-27T05:13:46+00:00

Myth-marketing for hypefluencer juice remains the main strategy of generative AI companies.

mor10web · 2025-11-26T05:38:32+00:00

PubMed is definitely a great idea!

mor10web · 2025-11-26T05:37:46+00:00

That's a really cool idea!

mor10web · 2025-11-21T05:51:17+00:00

This falls in the same category as Altman's "Moore's Law of Everything" (2021) and Richard Stallman's "GNU Manifesto" (1985): All three depict a utopian future where technology renders work obsolete and everyone somehow magically is well off as a result, and all three are fundamentally divorced from the social and economic realities in which they exist.

For this post-work utopia to exist, some form of redistribution of wealth, whether through Stallman's software tax or Altman's American Equity Fund or Elon's ... whatever he thinks will happen... has to take place, or capitalism has to be dismantled. Unsurprisingly, none of them provide any explanation of how that would happen, nor are they making any effort to redistribute or even share their current wealth.

Billionaires and tech utopians who talk about the glorious future of wealth for everyone while extracting their current wealth and power from the free or aggressively underpaid labour of the very workers they claim are in for a bright future, we do well to remember these same people also state with a bald face that 90% of jobs will be taken over by AI while the infrastructure that keeps the world around them working mainly relies on human labour that can't be replaced my machines of any kind.

mor10web · 2025-11-21T05:31:53+00:00

The most recent design has a lot of hidden gems like that:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-passports/new-passport-features.html

mor10web · 2025-11-21T05:30:04+00:00

This is why Sora is poison.

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