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What dehumanizing stereotype did you read?
I suspect the reason what I wrote is hard for you to read, and elicits that reaction in you to find some story that might contradict my statement, is because people need to think of themselves as good people. It's too much of a cognitive dissonance and shameful to think otherwise.
I find most successful Americans I meet are so self-obsessed they are left with an incredibly low capacity for empathy for those in lower classes than them. Wild how they think they are so different than Nazis.
Capital always prefers machines.
The underlying program was in trouble. NASA had already concluded before Isaacman took over that the existing Mars Sample Return architecture had become a roughly $8–11 billion project with samples potentially not reaching Earth until around 2040.
So yes: NASA killed the bloated $11B / 2040 version of Mars Sample Return.
Isaacman is pushing NASA’s Mars program toward cheaper, faster, modular missions, greater use of commercial spacecraft and launch providers, and infrastructure that can support both science and eventual human exploration.
That makes the “NASA is abandoning Mars science” framing fake news. NASA is abandoning a specific, extremely expensive architecture.
Isaacman has explicitly left open the possibility of retrieving Perseverance’s samples through a different approach.
The real question is to what extent the new model will actually deliver the samples faster and for dramatically less money.
software people have no idea how incredibly cushy they (still) have it.
It will raise the level of personal agency + stable family resources required to avoid crises and homelessness.
Society will increasingly organize around preventing class warfare.
see: https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2026/health-care-and-social-ass...
The same company that refuses to acknowledge that it let its own greed and temptation to own the entire economy abandon its non-profit Manhattan Project? At the expense of disrupting the economic well being of 95% of humanity?
Mark genuinely cares about your mental health.
He does not want to rewire your brain to be dependent on his models, like he did with FB/IG.
We can see it in his empathic eyes.
But my 12 lb bucket of brain cells guiding itself, and other lives, is the wrong tool for the job of staying in between the two bright lines.
Self-driving, here we come.
just join the US already
switchboards? gone.
horses? still around but basically entertainment.
handmade clothes? luxury good.
Each and every one of us has a software factory at home. Wild!
Does it even make sense to call it software anymore ? It’s basically liquidware.
If all you need is a comprehensive suite of evals / unit tests to determine if something functions correctly, and AI can quickly figure out how to change it so you get to the end result, then... seems like we won't need all these programming languages.
-- Codex app for more research heavy / data science heavy tasks. codex ios already built into chatgpt app.
starting a business is agency-maxxing.
you trade that in when you're an employee for some amount of perceived economic safety. at least, that's supposed to be the deal. that's harder to come by these days.