Speaking of ants having a survival instinct, ant death spirals are a thing. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill

I think it is not unlike a crush involving lots of humans in a confined space.

The debt is owed by the treasury, fed prints the money. What you’re describing is not how the monetary system works.

The Fed purchased Treasury securities during COVID QE. Those securities had low yields and cash reserves were created during those purchases.

Those cash reserves are held by banks which the Fed funds rate pays interest on (what was hiked).

Meanwhile the fixed rate debt from QE remains the same.

I am getting more and more peeved by using GDP as a single number. Cost of existing, aka housing and healthy food, skyrocketed compared to median income. But hey, the tech got cheaper.

In my experience Astra writes python code modifying the filesystem and then uses nix build to execute those python scripts without asking me for permission.

Grok confidently said it can be done by the end of the year when Elon asked so it must be true.

Apple used to have principled UX before designers got to innovation. There might be an argument that new UIs are better for people with no prior experience... if they did not completely change them once a decade or so.

I see this as liability shifting exercise first, scalability tool second, and Elon's desire to deliver on his 2016 promise third.

The scalability point is compound. We are talking charging, storage, and cleaning infra as well as regulatory burdens. Scaling that is hard and local, so it does make sense to outsource that. I believe the deal is really raw because of the risks involved, but Elon does have a decent track record of delivering on investment. Some of these entities will be able to perform regulatory capture and become a decent cash cow.

Do you think we will ever need more than 47 of them agents?

> But the software has become bloated to the point that you need to run the latest generation of CPUs such that things are not sluggish.

As the old saying goes what Intel giveth the Microsoft taketh away.

What Andy (Grove) giveth, Bill (Gates) taketh away.

I think it's all about incentives. The power to governance was given to prolific and tenured accounts who wanted to govern. Over the long timeframe their incentive averages to making their life easier and keeping the governance. Wikipedia is going through something similar.