Physics and economics are the two most fundamental disciplines. One studies how the physical world works, the other how human society works
If you want to understand the world, both are required reading. Yet our education system mostly stresses the first and quietly leaves the other out
In an industrialized and specialized society, there’s actually a good reason for that
Learning some macro:
1. Treasury yields: short-end follows Fed, long-end follows market
2. Money supply should grow slightly faster than the real economy, assuming mild inflation
3. Lending creates money (that circulates in the economy), repayment destroys it
4. The debt cycle is the money supply cycle
5. When money increases and goods supply can't keep up, money will flow to some of them, most noticeably asset prices
A year ago I wrote this in my blog: AI won't replace jobs from easy to hard, but from specialized to general-purpose.
My example was math: extremely hard, but extremely specialized.
Today it got nuked.
Two more predictions:
1. Proving math theorems survives, but as a niche art/hobby.
2. Coding will get fully replaced. Doesn't matter junior/senior, frontend/backend, security/architecture, tc. This includes engineering-heavy AI research, but not the product side.
We’re releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model.
We’ve been consulting with the independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Advanced Study, and we have drawn on their advice and public recommendations to inform how we release these results.
https://t.co/7N6TPlft1P
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