2017 Letter | Dan Wang
AI refactors previous use of humans, and unleashes new use for humans. Two weeks traveling Japan proved to be the perfect setting to contemplate some of the sweeping changes facing our society over the coming years and decades. The smart people I know generally agree that 80% of the work of 80%+ of jobs will be refactored significantly by AI. And
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Random rant on reading, LLMs, education:
Current LLM models could be 100x better and literally nothing would change for most normal people re: knowledge acquisition. We've had the internet and access to every single book on the planet in a blink and still most people don't use this. IT's only accelerated the learnings... See more
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This is now nearly forty years ago and I have since developed a much more differentiated appreciation of both cultures, seeing the positives and negatives in each of them more clearly. And of course the cultures themselves haven’t been static. For example, young entrepreneurs in both places are much more alike today.