now that rival startups are outlawed, he's just cashing in. its panhandling. no ones any closer to agi than we are to exploring other solar systems and i'm sure some people are becoming increasingly nervous about this. hence the massive swing in support of h1bs. its a day late and a dollar short. > slavery was a terrible deal from every point of view i agree. we like to think of ourselves as high evolved apes, but in reality we are a colonial species and have much more in common with ants. that may seem like an absurd statement to make to most, but ants are often mischaracterized and we are misinformed about them by terrible popcorn infotainment.  ants are not ruled by a queen, they are a colony of individuals and consensus drives the actions of the colony. all the queen does is regulate the colonies reproductive cycle. we don't have a queen, but we are mega-colonies of individuals largely driven by consensus. the more we struggle against that nature in pursuit of things contrary to it, like slaves, the more problems we will have. in fact, in recognizing this simple truth about ourselves that we have more in common with ants, we can see just how vulnerable we are to parasitization and having our organization disrupted in the same exact ways as the ants are. our mistake is and always was thinking of ourselves as some kind of divine super ape out of sheer ego.
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