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Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
Most people think curation is just about organizing and categorizing ; putting things in order so that they can easily be browsed.
But curation is really about deciding what to elevate and what to exclude .
But curation is really about deciding what to elevate and what to exclude .
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
The art is in knowing what not to show; and creating meaning by how things are connected or contrasted.
Good curation filters noise and focuses attention.
Curation is also a form of taste projection. It comes with meaning and sometimes, identity.
Good curation filters noise and focuses attention.
Curation is also a form of taste projection. It comes with meaning and sometimes, identity.
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
When AI can generate infinite outputs, the scarce advantage shifts to whoever can pose the constraint that focuses efforts towards generating the right outputs.
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
Intrinsic value is subjective and rooted in meaning.
Economic value emerges when that meaning meets scarcity and relevance.
Economic value emerges when that meaning meets scarcity and relevance.
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
Context is more about interpretation. The ability to create meaning in a certain context by understanding the context and applying the right interpretation to it.
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
Good questions compress the search space, increasing the density of viable opportunities per unit of effort. They reduce opportunity cost: the better the initial inquiry, the lower the probability of burning resources chasing irrelevant possibilities.
Good questions are compression devices which shrink search space. Bad questions are expansion... See more
Good questions are compression devices which shrink search space. Bad questions are expansion... See more
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
Even as AI gets better, there are certain kinds of knowledge it still struggles to capture, and may for a long time. Never say never, though. Tacit knowledge - the things you just know without being able to explain - was considered beyond the realm of technology, yet, LLMs approximate many forms of tacit knowledge, which even 7 years back would... See more
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
consensus theater
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
AI dismantles that constraint. In many domains, what was historically a competitive advantage now becomes tablestakes. The economic value of knowledge goes down, not because the intrinsic value of knowledge has changed but because its supply has dramatically increased.
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
AI has changed knowledge economics. Previously knowledge was assumed to be relatively expensive to acquire and difficult to distribute, but now it’s table stakes - accessible to all.
It impacts the knowledge value chain: curiosity > knowledge > curation > judgement
Curiosity creates the inquiry.
Knowledge populates the options.
Curation filters the right ones through.
Judgment makes the final call.
When knowledge becomes abundant, value migrates to the functions that exist upstream and downstream from it: framing the inquiry and acting on the output.
In this new architecture, curiosity, curation, and judgment create real advantage.