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You can't compete with someone who's having fun
The current meta for life and success
 • David Shapiro
The "Domestication Hypothesis" of Artificial Intelligence
Alignment as Cybernetic Coevolution
 • David Shapiro
29:15
Grok 4.20 is still deeply flawed
Watch now | It suffers from what I call "Elon Epistemics"
 • David Shapiro
15:07
Post-Labor Economics Explained in 8 Minutes
Liberate humanity from drudgery
 • David Shapiro
The Machines Are the Only Democracy You Have Left
While the AI safety movement was warning you about paperclips, billionaires started building empires beyond the reach of any law.
 • David Shapiro
32:39
How AGI will DESTROY the ELITES
"A minority class with outsized agenda-setting power" won't mean the same thing anymore
 • David Shapiro
31:11
AI destroyed 200k to 300k jobs in 2025 in the US
I used two different methods, and four different AIs, to help crunch these numbers
 • David Shapiro
The DEPRESSING reality of AI adoption curves
From Autocomplete to Chatbots and now Agents... the technology curve is way ahead of adoption curves...
 • David Shapiro
30:02
What's the difference between a chatbot and an agent?
And why the difference is less than you think, but also stranger than you might realize
 • David Shapiro
27:08
Taking the "AI Personhood" Debate Seriously
Does this GPU have a soul?
 • David Shapiro
Moltbook: The Good, The Bad, and the FUTURE
The Swarm has arrived!
 • David Shapiro
38:40

January 2026

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