1/ Some Simple Economics of AGI—🔥🧵
Right now, there is a low-grade panic running through the economy. Everyone is asking the same anxious question: what exactly is AI going to automate, and what will be left for us?
"There is no greater waste of resources in ordinary organizations than the energy expended every day to hide our weaknesses and manage others' favorable impressions of us." - Kegan, Lahey, et al., Harvard Business Review
Words are incantations. A way of conjuring ideas to life.
They let you cast concepts like a spell into the imaginations of others.
Amazing that some people get so powerful at this kind of magic, with words alone able to influence mass reality.
If you are working in fields like AI or web3 or VR right now, you are living through and creating important history.
Enjoy it and keep notes.
May victory be yours.
What a bore it is to live in this age of the "mathification" of man - - - the effort to reduce every mystery and marvel of life to mechanics and measurement. Where is the scientist that can write an equation for the mystery of a thought, or the feeling evoked by a newborn child.
Product operators who proudly pooh-pooh instinct & creativity (“it’s all about the numbers!”) often don’t realize that they have that luxury precisely because of the instinct & creativity of those who built that product before them.
🎉 It's finally ready! I've been hacking on something for the past couple months and it's absurdly great. It's time for more powerful web apps.
Announcing "A future for SQL on the web": https://t.co/TrXcfMoHa6