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I have a ? for Elon. If AI+Optimus make us 100x more productive, why we need more humans?

Posted on 6/27/26 at 6:20 pm
Posted by Meauxjeaux
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 6:20 pm
I’m not sure a declining birth rate is quite the disaster he talks about.

What y’all think?

(Editors note: this is a Saturday drinking and thinking thread)
Posted by FutureMikeVIII
Houston
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 6:23 pm to
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I’m not sure a declining birth rate is quite the disaster he talks about.


The ultra rich need CONSUMERS!
Posted by NIH
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 6:23 pm to
We won’t be more productive. Humans will be inside watching tv and looking at their phones.
Posted by stuntman
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 6:24 pm to
Because if someone like me is 100x more productive, I'll be about the average productive person in America.
Posted by PsychTiger
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 6:29 pm to
It’s all about which group’s birthrate is declining. The wrong groups are reproducing the most.
Posted by timdonaghyswhistle
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 6:36 pm to
No matter how far AI takes us you can still hit the jackpot with a Hollywood kid.
Posted by captainFid
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 6:48 pm to
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No matter how far AI takes us you can still hit the jackpot with a Hollywood kid.

I've come to realize, this is one of the LAST things a parent could hope for. A child who grows up in that industry is almost always in for a lifetime of counseling and therapy. And half of the time, it's against their own parents.

I welcome 10 million Optimus robots, and hope they hit their goals. Take away the jobs no one wants to work. Well, except of course, they won't be able to replace a plumber, electrician, etc. -- at least not for many years.
Posted by RohanGonzales
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 7:09 pm to
because human semen is a secret all-purpose magical elixir and if people have a lot more free time there will be lots more beating off
Posted by tide06
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 7:16 pm to
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We won’t be more productive. Humans will be inside watching tv and looking at their phones.

Best case is Wall-e.

Worst case involves dystopian depopulation schemes.

Or we could just not introduce into the broader society that will be intellectually superior to us by orders of magnitude while completely upending the entire labor market until we have a plan to have it not cause total chaos.
Posted by La Place Mike
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 7:18 pm to
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why we need more humans?


To keep Social Security going.
Posted by Meauxjeaux
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 7:33 pm to
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It’s all about which group’s birthrate is declining. The wrong groups are reproducing the most.


This makes sense
Posted by geauxtigers
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 7:38 pm to
stfu cuz sex?
Posted by Meauxjeaux
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 7:38 pm to
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hy we need more humans?


To keep Social Security going.


I believe his point is that abundance will render Social Security unnecessary.
Housing, energy, food, health care will be infinitely better managed thus bringing costs for these, especially healthcare, down to near-zero.

I believe in a Garden Earth, but still my test question is always: Who get to eat in Cinderella's Castle? How is that proportioned daily?
Posted by Green Chili Tiger
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 7:40 pm to
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The wrong groups are reproducing the most.


Which groups are the wrong groups?
Posted by Penrod
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 7:41 pm to
You have a good point. Maybe it's not a problem.
Posted by McLemore
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 7:42 pm to
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(Editors note: this is a Saturday drinking and thinking thread)


You were half-right.
Posted by everytrueson
Southern California
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 7:42 pm to
Won’t matter when the aliens come and either enslave us all, or teach us about their cool technology.





Posted by Meauxjeaux
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 8:05 pm to
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Which groups are the wrong groups?


The anti-American ones
Posted by PsychTiger
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 11:08 pm to
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Which groups are the wrong groups?


The ones that lead us to Idiocracy.
Posted by Plx1776
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 11:12 pm to
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will be



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I'm off today and too tired to do anything, I'm watching tv and playing on my phone all day.
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