Brian Fioca

I’m anti-capitalist in that I think it would be insane to think that this is the best economic technology that humans can ever invent. Imagine if we thought that way about feudalism.

You can be optimistic about the future while carrying a sober respect for nature. We learned to understand, harness, and constrain electricity and nuclear forces. Intelligence can follow, and can even help us learn how to do it safely.

If you don’t think AI is thinking then I think you’re not thinking enough about thinking

ASI means you no longer need to spend your entire life acquiring every prerequisite before you can unlock everything on your skill tree

Lots of financial stability comes from the fact that there’s a lot of grunt work and grinding in almost every field. I’m not sure we have a large scale solution to what happens when most of the grind is automated.

I have so much more time to work on art and creative projects. Also it’s nice having Astra reorganize my Lightroom folders.

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Widely available useful intelligence is the great equalizer. Time inequality between the wealthy and disadvantaged is solvable.

We're all imaginers, directors, editors, and producers now.

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Thinking deeply about emojis 🤔💭🤔

I have significantly better work/life balance because of AI. I can even work from my phone at the park sometimes. Or just go for walks while Codex runs something for me. Same at home! Administrative work is so fast. Can’t imagine having to go back to the old way.

Started a stint in model design this week. omg OpenAI is awesome. I don't know if I can even describe what it is that I'm getting to do in a way that would make sense to a normal company. Anyway if Chat bumps you the wrong way lmk 🙏

In an ASI world, having a human in the inner loop of a process will slow it down to the point of it being competitively obsolete compared to a fully-automatic process. This includes engineering, product development, manufacturing, corporations... Important to have human-led outer loop governance.

Optimistic for a future when people don't read every news item or announcement with immediate mistrust or cynicism. I know it's a "fool me 4001 times, shame on me" world we live in now, but it doesn't have to be that way.

I just searched “AI” to find more accounts to follow here here and ooooof. I thought X was full of extremes…

I often think about the time a guy dismissed my work because LLMs are just stochastic parrots and I asked him if he came up with that on his own or repeated something he heard. Not as a dig but because we all have blind spots.

The real answer is somewhere in between hopes and worries

Keep your identity small and you won’t be threatened by change. www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

The people will leave the state argument undervalues our home and community. www.geekwire.com/2026/opinion...

This is an incredibly nuanced and illustrative view into recent events and matches my understanding and ongoing thinking about these issues podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

You don't get to turn your chatbot into a tool of mass sexualized harassment and then two weeks later say the problem is fixed because the abusers have to pay for the privilege.

Too late, IMO. I’m so over it.

A must listen. The moral panic about AI is probably more dangerous than the reality.

It’s ok to give yourself an “employee discount” when there are only self-checkout lines open at the grocery store, right? 🤔

I think this is a great write-up about the good and the not so good.

I've been lucky enough to be challenged by Ted Chiang about AI, technology, capitalism, and philosophy myself and this article is an important read. I think it's crucially important to balance any technological pursuit with the philosophical implications it carries.

“Wokeness” is just standing up for everyone’s right to the pursuit of happiness. I can’t think of anything more American than that. If you’re so unhappy you want others to be as wretched as you, I feel sorry for you, but don’t tread on everyone else.

Really excited to have gotten to canvass for this initiative. This is such a well thought out solution.

Really glad I went to this. Amazing perspective for how things could be.

I’m just going to try to do my part to help and protect the people I can. Unrelated: I have a whole lot of intelligent agents just kind of idling…

I will only post useful or uplifting things. After this, I guess.