Mark Miller said something like, "Moore's law from the CPU's POV: humans are getting exponentially more expensive." The fundamental shape of the future is clea

Mark Miller said something like, "Moore's law from the CPU's POV: humans are getting exponentially more expensive." The fundamental shape of the future is clear: either you have some sort of legal claim on or equity in the primary producers and/or "rent extractors" or you don't. As a programmer, the next iterations of e.g. GitHub Copilot will eventually eat my career. Large corporations are effectively already AIs, and they have much more ability and capacity to leverage technology advances than the little people. I don't really know what to do about any of it, even assuming I could... I've thought about trying to start a kind of member-owned "general automation" corp that builds houses and neighborhoods and ecologically savvy farms, but the simple fact is, I'm not a people person. I've also thought about buying one of those cheap desert plots, a couple of acres for a few thousand dollars, and going out there with a "kernel" or "seed" of, y'know, solar panels and chickens and a little earth-mover, etc. I could pretend it was like I was colonizing an alien planet and make a kind of performance art piece out of it, I dunno.