Ben Wehrman 🎙⚡️🥩 on Nostr: What’s the first emotion that pops into your head when you think about #AI? ...

What’s the first emotion that pops into your head when you think about #AI?

Excitement?

Fear?

Intrigue?

Undecided?

To those whose first emotion regarding AI is negative, I recommend that you:

A) Listen to this podcast; a conversation featuring Jeff Booth (npub1s05…eyhe) & TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev), which uses an ultra-big-picture lens to debunk a lot of the primary scaries most of us originally feel about AI 👇

https://youtu.be/s8XoMg3tb0s

B) If your objection is, "It will absorb lots of jobs and put people out of work", ask yourself this:

WHY is the idea of mundane jobs being eliminated scary to us?

No, it's not because punching keys on an accounting program every day (or any other menial job which millions of people currently work) is a mental, physical, or spiritual loss for any of those workers...

It's because under the Fiat Standard, people NEED to work constantly in order to pay rent, put food on the table, and keep themselves and their families' heads above water.

But why is this constant hyper-working by 95% of the population required in the first place? I thought USA was the richest country in history?!

Because everyone's government-printed paper currency is bleeding out, losing value via dilution every time anyone in D.C. decides they want to throw trillions of dollars at anything, ever. (But hey at least we can feel good about getting poorer, because they're using that printed money to bomb more Syrian children for oil 😃👍)

But I digress...let's summarize:

Why do we as a society instinctively feel that people NEED to spend their days shuffling papers, ticking boxes, and calculating numbers (all things that could be taken off of our collective plate this decade by AI)?

Because under the Fiat Standard, the poors have to run on the hamster wheel 24/7/365.

On a #Bitcoin Standard, when people no longer have to participate in wage slavery to chase inflation (because #Bitcoin supply is fixed; it's DEFLATIONARY)…people will no longer NEED to load their schedule with all of these useless jobs to survive. Their savings will grow with time rather than deteriorate, increasing their living standard, and lowering their time preference.

This seems like an outlandish concept...how could we just get richer over time? Sounds too good to be true.

The answer is simple, but "they" want you to think it's complicated. Once you vaporize the cancer of the money printer, all these countless trillions of dollars being spent on the Military Industrial Complex, Big Pharma donor payouts, and constant bailouts of megabanks, that value will go to YOU.

🤯

[Further explanation of that inflation vs. deflation dynamic can be found on this excellent podcast: https://youtu.be/RuCqFjU9Wi4 ]


To (finally lol) wrap up this opening AI rant:

The combination of AI + Bitcoin is a match made in heaven. It will free people's time, while ALSO reallocating the resulting productivity gains to the PEOPLE, not the bloodthirsty oligarchs that have been silently siphoning everyone's wealth away since central banks gained God-status in 1971.

But this cannot be emphasized enough: the #Bitcoin piece is absolutely critical to a positive outcome for the world. If we don't distinguish the fiat disease, the dystopian hellscape scenario where the overlords suck up even MORE of the productivity gains for themselves, and in turn FURTHER STRENGTHEN the money-printer Death Star, would be well within the realm of possibility.

I hope all of this somewhat makes sense. This is a new topic for me too, so my ability to understand/explain the big picture is still developing.

Stay tuned. Excited to continue venturing into this rabbit hole with you all :)