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won capitalism and then we went back and made it better for everyone i don t think it gets better than that for me off by one episode 2 01 08 02 jeff and the other thing is you can just run the math on this i ve posted several times on mastodon and other places like linkedin i ve done some research and if we simply collected a fair tax from billionaires we could literally elimate all poverty in this country at the 100 fpl level which is 15 000 per year all poverty we would have zero poverty we have the means to do it leo that s really important jeff we lack the will if you want to witness the chaotic good of my original guest appearance which led to this show watch the first 45 minutes of intelligent machines 859 recorded on feb 25th along with paris martineau jeff jarvis and leo i dialed down the chaos considerably for the off by one show but for this one i personally think it s funnier to watch paris reaction to me for the entire show you ve been warned here are 3 key quotes from this episode with linked timestamps so you can jump directly to that section intelligent machines 859 what s behind the fox 30 28 leo well in a way it s a shame because we have in the last year kind of stepped back from our global initiatives in the united states and i think we do have a responsibility i think your partner is absolutely right if you have everything you need then help others have everything they need jeff what is money even for i don t even have that much what do you how do you spend it all i don t have i just want a simple life man intelligent machines 859 what s behind the fox 32 59 jeff i mean have you seen some of the stuff llms will do when you tell them to optimize it s like optimize this for 95 and it s like okay return true leo that s a good optimization jeff well because it doesn t know what it s doing it has no actual understanding it s playing a game of global brain statistics and copy paste and it s good at like merging i call it jpeg for words which it kind of is and there s so much stuff it s like reading summaries and it is very accurate with summaries we saw this on discourse they implemented it i was very skeptical and i went to some very complex discussions we had on our internal discourse and read the summary and was like that is a very good summary and it captured the key points in the discussion it could have captured more but it got nothing wrong and it basically was jpeg for that conversation wasn t it without much loss jeff now does jpeg work on every image no garfield is a bad choice for yknow jpeg intelligent machines 859 what s behind the fox 42 10 jeff atwood ok the first guilded age we re deep in the second one now i mean just look up the numbers more money in the hands of fewer people than in any other period of time in the first guilded age that was basically the railroad barons guess who it is in the second guilded age i m in this picture and i don t like it so like what are we gonna do about it so thank you leo and wesley for giving me another way to make happiness real by sharing it with all of you now in video and audio form all the feels all the time well once per month let us know what you think i don t mind comments here but i m much more likely to answer on the twit community discourse try on a paragraph for size our old pal the pilcrow you might even like it it s possible the practice of writing paragraphs and forming coherent narratives might even improve your overall writing and communication skills or your life even i also heard a rumor that any club twit users who make their way from the discord and post regularly on the twit discourse might get a super cool little token of appreciation in the postal mail from some user named junk who knows who can say what might happen discussion thank you for being a friend jeff atwood 20 apr 2026 2 min read it s been one of those months and by that i mean one of the 663 months since i was born this won t be a long post because i only have two things to say first i m really glad we re ordered the gmi guaranteed minimum income rural study counties so mercer county wv my dad s county went first in october 2025 i knew dad was close to the end and sure enough that was the last time i ever saw him you can kinda sorta meet my dad on this page if you want to why pledge to share the american dream rgmii why we pledged to share the american dream rgmii s 50m plan funds rural guaranteed minimum income studies to expand opportunity and strengthen democracy rural guaranteed minimum income initiative rgmii jeff atwood i knew this was coming and so did he there is no loss because nothing ever ends all those experiences i had with my father particularly that last october trip will stay with me forever nothing was lost everything was gained we won capitalism then went back to help improve it for everyone and believe me i m far from being done with my third startup second i want to take a moment to thank everyone and i do mean everyone who ever contributed to stack overflow in any way and lucky you it s not starship this time did you know that llms basically could not code at all without access to the extremely high quality creative commons programming q a dataset that all of us built together at stack overflow don t take it from me ask the llms they ll tell you themselves go ahead g wan ask really grill em on this one i strongly recommend you use pro mode when asking though because those are the only decent llm modes in my experience it is incredible what you can do with global brain statistics and a strongly curated dataset created by we the people one last thing if the llms end up hollowing out the very communities that produce all their training data they re going to really really regret that i ll give these llm gai companies the same advice i gave joel spolsky when i left stack overflow to start discourse do not for any reason under any circumstances kill the goose that lays the golden eggs aka the human community around your product that does all the real work it s pretty simple just treat the community with the respect they deserve that we all deserve thank you for being a friend because there s no way i could have done any of this without you discussion launching the rural guaranteed minimum income initiative jeff atwood 03 feb 2026 8 min read it s been a year since i invited americans to join us in a pledge to share the american dream 1 support organizations you feel are effectively helping those most in need across america right now 2 within the next five years also contribute public dedications of time or funds towards longer term efforts to keep the american dream fair and attainable for all our children stay gold america personally i ve become a big believer in one particular quote especially considering the specific context in which it was delivered from those to whom much is given much is expected mary gates those 10 words had a profound effect on the world indeed we were given much so we as a family will choose to give much on a recent podcast my partner betsy said it better than i could have well we have everything we need that s how i ve always phrased it to our children that i think extends to our philanthropy we have everything we need how do we make sure everybody has what they need because that s the basic thing do you have a comfortable place to live do you have enough to eat do you have healthcare if you have the basics you re in a good place in life and everybody should have that opportunity it s a question i ve asked myself a lot since 2021 when exactly is enough we do have everything we need why can t everyone else have the basic things they need too beyond the 1m to eight nonprofit charities we listed in january 2025 we saw immediate needs becoming so urgent that we quickly added an additional 13m in donations within a few months for a total of 21m immediate share the american dream donations 21m team rubicon 1m children s hunger fund 1m pen america 1m the trevor project 1m naacp legal defense and educational fund 1m 100k first generation investors 1m global refuge 1m planned parenthood 1m votevets 2m mastodon 1 5m 404 media 1 1m ryan broderick garbage day 1m internet archive 1m common crawl foundation 1m wikipedia wikimedia foundation 1m internet security research group 1m dna lounge 1m murena 500k sharewell 300k precious plastic 100k economic security project 100k rural democracy initiative 100k civic nation 100k sojourn project 750k alameda food bank 150k urban compassion project 75k but you can t take a completely short term view and fight each individual fire reactively as it comes you ll never stop firefighting we also have to do fire abatement and deal with the root causes improving conditions in this country such that there aren t so many fires thus for the second half much longer term part in addition to the 21m already donated we pledged 50m half of our remaining wealth to address the underlying systemic issues i proposed some speculative ideas in stay gold and this one ended up being the closest we could found a new organization loosely based on the original rand corporation but modernized like lever for change we can empower the best and brightest to determine a realistic achievable path toward preserving the american dream for everyone working within the current system or outside it by march 2025 we had consensus the road not taken is guaranteed minimum income the road not taken is guaranteed minimum income the dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow americans coding horror jeff atwood guaranteed minimum income gmi is an improved version of the older concept of universal basic income ubi rather than indiscriminately giving money to everyone gmi directs the money towards those who most need it particularly families experiencing generational poverty please note that after this post coding horror will revert to normal nerdy blog posts and all future gmi content will be at a dedicated site linked below why did we decide on gmi almost every existing ubi gmi study result data we could find indicates cash generally works for example openresearch data showed the greatest increase in spending among study participants was in meeting basic needs with the greatest percent increase in support to others 26 along with huge decreases in reported alcohol use 20 less and days using non prescribed painkillers 53 fewer why wouldn t we continue to build something that has generally been shown to work study after study time and time again this is survival money cash for folks so they can put food on the table get a roof over their heads have a functioning vehicle to go to work and decide how to meet their most basic critical needs it pains me to say this but we live in a world where many people simply do not often experience open generosity or regular income when you show someone what it feels like to just not be hungry for a little while their view of the world changes they feel trusted they see possibility rise recipient stacy d wv i moved here with my family and i have no family up here other than who i brought with me so how most people can be like hey i m having a hard time got 20 or a pack of diapers i have nobody up here to do that so if me and my husband don t figure it out it don t get figured out so i ve got five kids that live with me i was working full time until i got pregnant i prayed for this baby for 10 years so as soon as i got pregnant i stopped working i was high risk the day i got cleared to go back to work my vehicle broke down it was the only vehicle that we had that carried all the kids so i ve been four months without my car so this is also going to get my vehicle back on the road you don t know how hard it is to ask people hey can i get a ride to the grocery store or hey my baby has two month shots i had to borrow a vehicle this is gonna it s going to do a lot unlike many other social programs gmi studies require initiative these are opt in studies that you have to sign up for demonstrate that you meet the income criteria and are a resident of the county and because spots are limited be randomly selected from eligible applicants we emphasize that this is not passive it is active teamwork to improve the gmi program with your family your community and everyone else we can reach together over the next few decades building on what works the massive openresearch ubi study the largest and most detailed guaranteed income study ever conducted in the usa was designed to be a template for future more refined studies and that s exactly what we re doing we will also use what we learn in this group of three counties as in software the rule of three to iterate adapt and improve our gmi study playbook with every new group of three counties generating a playbook anyone can use we strive to do repeatable replicable science in every study and all our data will be open and freely shared with the world we re contributing to and partially funding a global open data repository for basic income pilots all around the world ubidata it s the same reason we made stack overflow content part of the creative commons and discourse fully open source gmi is seed funding for families investing in our fellow americans those who need it the most a large body of research shows that dollars targeted to lower income families are more likely to be spent quickly and reduce hardship and can improve outcomes for children trickle up economics works whereas trickle down tax cuts for the rich increase income inequality and provide no significant effect on growth or jobs this is the newer trust based model of philanthropy much closer to venture capital funding we primarily empower fund and build up existing organizations like givedirectly and openresearch forming a collaborative team to leverage all their existing work and grow their organizations in whatever way they see fit because they have the most experience in the gmi space the rural guaranteed minimum income initiative i like to go that way really fast so we are already well underway with the rural guaranteed minimum income initiative we focus on rural counties where dollars go a lot further poverty is more prevalent and populations are smaller for tighter studies rural counties are also greatly overlooked in this country in my opinion yet they have so much incredible untapped talent i know because that s exactly where my parents and i are from we ve funded three county level programs mercer wv beaufort nc warren ms that are already underway where we will help lift thousands of people out of poverty for a period of 16 months while sharing data and results with the world that s a good start but i think we can do considerably more with your help we hope to reach all 50 states over time in stay gold i noted that all of american history contains the path of love and the path of hate but the path of love is the only survivable path it s so much harder and it s going to be a lifetime of work bu...