Retirement Singularity

Check out this post about what older adults can do now, to intercept the radical life enhancing technologies soon to come! Taken from an interview on a recent CARP webinar.

Smarter Health, Longer Life: What Adults 55+ Can Do Now I recently gave a CARP Atlantic webinar called Smarter Health, Longer Life: What Adults 55+ Can Do Now and What’s Coming Next. (If you heard me recently with CARP Atlantic, welcome.) The central idea was simple: The future of retirement is no longer just about money. It is also about health, indep...

Google X exec Mo Gawdat calls this "the most dangerous phase of AI" — and he's not wrong. But here's what most people miss: the danger isn't the machines. It's the values we're handing them.

We're raising something smarter than us. What we teach it in the next few years will shape everything that comes after. The good news? That means you — your wisdom, your ethics, your humanity — have never mattered more.

Here's why showing up as your best self right now is the most important thing you can do. -parenting-job-in-human-history/
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Raising Superman: The Most Important Parenting Job in Human History Most retirement planning advice focuses on money. Smart portfolios, withdrawal rates, healthcare contingencies - all critical. But there's a variable arriving that no spreadsheet accounts for: the AI Singularity. According to Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer at Google, we are entering what h...

OK, if AI and robots are lining up to replace most human human labor, who will buy the goods and services if most people are unemployed? [93% of US jobs can be done at least partly by AI, per Forbes] This is the topic of "Post-Labor Economics" PLE - how does the economy work if a key driver (consumer spending = 70% of the US economy) falls away? One of the leading thinkers on this is David Shapiro. See the attached for an excellent overview of his model of PLE.

The 7 Frameworks to Understand Post-Labor Economics I've distilled 3 years of research into 7 graphics

AI vs. the Environment!? Are you concerned? Should you be?

Is AI Destroying the Planet—Or About to Save It? Is AI Destroying the Planet - Or About to Save It? I recently received this message from a reader, and I thought it deserved a full post rather than just a quick reply. A reader asks the question I’ve been thinking about reply: “Overall I find AI extremely useful and it’s helped me get past .....