My efforts are ultimately geared towards turning my labor into neural network weights. They are already stored in my brain as synapses between neurons. We as humans codify these synapses onto silicone. There is a threshold at which there is enough information encoded onto silicone that a machine can operate in any way a human can. At this point labor will be optional, depending on your social class, and the value of goods and services will plummet. In the meantime we will attempt to inject artificial scarcity into the market but the only things left of value will be natural resources which we cannot synthesize. Then, in a search for larger amounts of natural resources we will be drawn off the planet. But alas we will send our machines because our biological neurons are not stable in vacuum.

We are all laborers. Our usefulness is in converting electricity from our brain into the mechanical movement of our limbs and sound waves. Whether you type on a keyboard or dig a ditch you are ultimately expressing physical movement. Specifically, physical movement which displaces mass.

My modus operandi used to be:

w = f(s)

I thought that if I optimized for displacing mass in and of itself then I would be doing something useful. But this is not true because otherwise we would all be pushing rocks up the hill with sisyphus. Instead the correct optimization is something like:

w = ∫ f(s) * ρ(s) ds

This is because we actually need to weigh our function. It matters how force is applied in order to displace mass. This places incredibly high value on the synaptic strength of our neurons and ultimately the weights of a neural network.