How to Zion

industrializing abundance.

People think the current fight is about AI, about Nvidia, about a few bills in Washington.

No. The real fight is much simpler, and much more serious.

We're heading toward a new kind of civilization. That part is settled. The only question is: will we go through 1984 before we get there?

One: why superintelligence destroys the current system.

The system we live in rests on one scarcity: the scarcity of intelligence.

To understand a law, you need a lawyer. To read a balance sheet, you need an expert. To build a case, you need a firm. To access a market, you need a permit. To know what's true, you need a newspaper, an agency, an institution to tell you.

Every layer of this system is a toll booth. And every toll booth is manned by someone who lives off your inability to do without them.

Superintelligence makes intelligence abundant. Almost free. Available to everyone, every second. When intelligence becomes abundant, the toll booths become useless. And the people manning them know it.

So they'll do everything to keep the system alive. Not necessarily out of malice. Upton Sinclair summed it up: it's hard to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. Licenses, moratoriums, federal agencies, blown-up scandals: every tool will be used to slow down what makes them obsolete.

Two: even if they win, they lose.

Because you can't contain an abundant technology with normal means.

An AI model is a file. It can be copied, sent, run on a machine in a basement. To stop it from spreading, you have to monitor every computer, every chip, every line of code, every exchange. There's no soft version of that control. There's only a total one.

That's the trap. To keep their system alive, they'll be forced to become totalitarian. Not because they want to, but because it's the only way to hold back abundance.

History has played this game before. The Ottoman Empire kept the printing press at bay for nearly three centuries. It preserved the established order, and watched Europe overtake it in every field. The USSR controlled photocopiers and kept watch over typewriters. It collapsed anyway.

And a system that confiscates the leverage of the many to reserve it for the few is, by definition, unfair. An unfair system can last. It can't last forever. It always ends up imploding, under the weight of its own illegitimacy, or under pressure from those elsewhere who didn't hit the brakes.

They can buy time. All they can do is push back the deadline. And the price of that delay is 1984.

Three: Elon's project.

Look at what he's building, piece by piece.

Abundant energy, with solar and batteries. Abundant labor, with robots. Abundant intelligence, with AI. Free information, with Starlink and X, far harder for a regime to shut down. And access to space, with reusable rockets.

This isn't a collection of companies. It's a machine for destroying scarcity.

And the world of takers and financiers lives off scarcity. Organized scarcity of access, permissions, capital, information. A world that captured everything through coercion and lies, by standing between people and what they could build.

Takers live off scarcity. Elon is industrializing abundance.

When abundance wins, rent dies. The toll booth has no road left to block. The gatekeeper has no gate left to guard.

That's why this fight is so violent. It's not a policy debate. It's one world fighting not to disappear, against another one being born.

We can go through 1984. Or we can skip straight to what comes next.

It's being decided now.

What a time to be alive.

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Hart & Soul

@bhart1977

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Ultimately this is a battle of good vs. evil. Freedom, prosperity, and opportunity are possible to be sure, but there are too many people in high places trying to mold us into a world where they control all the resources, governments, and people living on it. 

I believe the reason why Elon has suddenly become an enemy to these globalist elites is not because of his support for Trump, it's because his technologies and X are undermining their ability to control the population. They can't take over without  controling the  information, speech, communication, and resources. As you pointed out scarcity keeps them in power and Elon is creating something that generates an abundance of information and resources for all.  

This fight has been going on since the beginning of time. In the end I know that good conquers evil, but we will have to go through some dark and difficult times to achieve it.

the end of poverty on a global scale

when there shall be no poor among you; for the Lord shall greatly bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:

(Deuteronomy 15:4)

And the Lord blessed the land, and they were blessed upon the mountains, and upon the high places, and did flourish.

18 And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them.

(Moses 7:17–18)

20 But it is not given that one man should possess that which is above another, wherefore the world lieth in sin.

(Doctrine and Covenants 49:20)

Brivael Le Pogam

@brivael

I don't know how many people realize that if Elon Musk pulls off what he's building, it will be the biggest social reset in human history.

To understand why, you need to understand a concept almost nobody really gets: rent.

Yesterday I was talking about it with someone. I told them something simple: the moment a rent sets in, whatever kind it is, it gets paid for. Not necessarily in dollars. It gets paid for in stagnation.

So what is a rent?

A rent is income that doesn't come from the value you create, but from the position you hold. You don't win because you're better. You win because nobody is allowed to come and beat you.

The mechanism is almost always the same. A company succeeds. Then, instead of continuing to innovate, it goes for regulatory capture: licenses, standards, quotas, approvals, lobbying. It turns its lead into a wall. And behind that wall, new entrants can't get in.

But they're the ones who innovate. They're the ones who drive prices down, raise quality, create new wealth. When you block them, nothing dramatic happens. Nothing happens at all. Prices stop falling. Quality stalls. The pie stops growing. And when the pie stops growing, the only way to get richer is to take someone else's slice.

This is the point almost nobody sees: what people blame on "capitalism" (frozen inequality, a broken social ladder, the feeling that the game is rigged from the start) are the effects of that stagnation. The symptoms of rent. Not of capitalism. Capitalism is competition. Rent is its negation.

Now, Elon Musk.

He said that by 2036, money won't matter anymore. Most people read it as science fiction. I read it as an implicit critique of our entire monetary system.

His reasoning: AI and robots will produce more than we can possibly consume. So prices will collapse. Deflation, not inflation.

And this is where it gets interesting. For decades, the role of central banks has been to stabilize prices. In practice: to stop them from falling. Yet in an economy that innovates, the natural direction of prices is down. Look at what a computer cost thirty years ago.

Preventing prices from falling was the worst thing we could have done. Because it created an entire generation of rentiers. People who got rich not by creating something, but by owning something at the right time. An apartment. A plot of land. An asset shielded from falling prices by money printing and by rules that choke supply.

In a world not captured by the state, house prices would be extremely low.

And who would stay rich? The people who keep creating value. The ones whose wealth comes from the valuation of their company, because their company keeps innovating. Wealth you have to re-earn every single year.

That's where Elon's line really makes sense. In a world of deflationary abundance, human life would look like a video game. Or a game of chess.

If you're good and you start at the bottom, you can rise very, very fast. In a few years.

If you're bad and you inherit the inertia of a position you don't know how to maintain, against people who keep innovating, you fall very, very fast too.

No more rent. No more entitlement. Just your ability to create value, put back on the line every day.

It would be the greatest equalizer in human history.

Not equality of outcomes imposed from above. Equality of the playing field, imposed by abundance.

I think Elon Musk is reinventing the rules of capitalism. Or rather, bringing them back to their original form: the Austrian school. Real capitalism. Value creation as the only legitimate source of wealth.

And at the end of the road, something neither rent nor redistribution has ever achieved: the end of poverty on a global scale.

17 The fear of the Lord was upon all nations, so great was the glory of the Lord, which was upon his people. And the Lord blessed the land, and they were blessed upon the mountains, and upon the high places, and did flourish.

18 And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them.

(Moses 7:17–18)

GeniusThinking

@GeniusGTX

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Peter Diamandis says we'll speedrun every science fiction movie ever written in the next decade.

Moon bases, nuclear plants on the moon, 500,000 data center satellites in orbit:

8 predictions he made:

1) Longevity escape velocity arrives in 2033

That's Ray Kurzweil's date, and Diamandis backs it.

Escape velocity is the year science starts adding more than a year to your life for every year you're alive. Past that point the arithmetic stops running against you, and everything below gets easier to believe.

2) All disease cured within a decade

This one is Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs, and Diamandis relays it.

Cancer, cardiovascular, inflammatory. Hassabis said it on stage at Davos last year and Diamandis calls the presentation shocking.

3) Human lifespan doubled in ten years

Same source, same stage. Hassabis said we'd double the human lifespan inside the next ten years.

Diamandis's addition is that lifespan isn't the point. Healthspan is. How long you actually feel amazing.

4) Ambient AI in your home within two years

He already runs one. It's called Skippy, it lives on two Mac Studios in his house, and it has his WhatsApp, iMessage, email and calendar.

In two years he expects it reading your biometrics and adjusting your day around them.

5) Surgery is the next thing AI takes

The best diagnosis already comes from an AI rather than a human doctor, in his view.

Surgery is next, and he puts it five years out. He frames it against the fact that an operation can currently bankrupt the person having it.

6) Governments start printing money in two years

Not at COVID levels, but he expects direct payments to citizens inside two years.

The trigger is downsizing. He expects companies to go from full staff to around 20% of their employee base.

7) The backlash peaks in two to three years

He predicts a cacophony of voices demanding we cease developing AI entirely.

He also thinks it arrives too late. His view is that the technology simply isn't regulatable the way people imagine it is.

8) Moon bases inside the decade

NASA's administrator says we land, then bring nuclear plants and mine water ice.

Add Elon's 500,000 orbital data center satellites and Diamandis says the whole picture might be off by two or three years. Not more.

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