Basic economic thinking — incentives, trade-offs, understanding prices — should be taught much earlier. It should be part of general education. Not as ideology. As literacy.
The less people understand economics, the easier they are to manipulate with emotional promises.
That’s why real economic education is so threatening to the political class.
Take a moment. Think for yourself. Then go listen to more Friedman lectures. Your brain will thank you. ✨
AI-driven abundance could make work optional, reduce the role of money, and shift value away from labor toward creativity or voluntary pursuits - as someone once observed.
If we define intelligence as the ability to spot analogies (mapping structures from one domain to another) - in LLMs, this happens in high-dimensional vector spaces -
then it raises a question: are ‘meaning’ and ‘consciousness’ spaces we haven’t mapped yet?
Context: ‘Quo vAIdis’ book by @andrzejdragan (currently only in Polish)
If we define intelligence as the ability to spot analogies (mapping structures from one domain to another) - in LLMs, this happens in high-dimensional vector spaces -
then it raises a question: are ‘meaning’ and ‘consciousness’ spaces we haven’t mapped yet?
Context: ‘Quo vAIdis’ book by @andrzejdragan (currently only in Polish)