On Tuesday, February 10, 2026, at 2:25 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > Following current trends, the next century will be a world without war, > borders, prison, or poverty, of advanced technology and abundance where > robots do all our work. But also social isolation because we prefer to talk > to AI instead of humans, lose language skills, have sex with robots, and stop > having children. Nobody will know or care whether you live or die.
BlackRock's AI app Aladdin, started in 1988 has arguably become the most powerful known AI entity on Earth managing $20+ trillion is assets including sovereign governments, central banks and is increasingly interconnecting and expanding while attempting to gain control of ALL assets. When liquidity leaves equity markets, including the Magnificent 7, it doesn't vanish it moves since it's conserved in the system. An AI that moves liquidity among destinations that it controls wins either way while extracting value from unbeknownst bagholders. We are far, far away to where everyone is a winner. There will be losers, those who suffer and/or are extinguished. True though some may he happy wearing a VR headset on meds or nano stimulated while owning nothing. But the concept of everyone being joyous, on UBI, no work, no disease, no pollution, robots everywhere, is that realistic in the relatively near future? Perhaps for some... perhaps we're in the singularity now like some billionaires/trillionaires suggest. Or maybe just the hope of a singularity fuels people, like "immanentizing the eschaton" or the religious Heaven on Earth which has been utilized many times in the past... maybe that's good enough. Don't get me wrong though this isn't doomerism it’s pragmatism. Duality exists. Destinations require journeys. Balance sheets should balance. Blind pursuit of utopias have left unempathic trails of casualties. And I wonder who or what permits this AI debt creation mania similar to the previous years where $20+ trillion of mysteriously untraceable expenditures were approved shifting that debt burden essentially onto the public resulting in an inflation tax for EVERYONE. The reality is we don't fully know. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tf1316ff4a3f619df-Mcaf29da2e2c7c1f5fa7b836b Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
