AI

For years, we feared automation would replace humans. But as AI reshapes the economy, it’s becoming clear that far from replacing human ingenuity, AI has amplified it. The critical dividing line in our economy is no longer simply education or specialization, but rather agency itself: the raw determination to make things happen without waiting for p... See more

AI has eroded the value of specialization because, for many tasks, achieving the outcome of several years of experience now takes a $20 ChatGPT subscription.

If a decade ago it took me nine months to gain enough experience to ship a single prototype, now it takes just one week to build a state-of-the-art platform ready to be shipped — a project once... See more

There’s a lot of speculation and rhetoric these days about whether AI democratizes creativity or advances it. However, it is abundantly clear to me that both are true.

On the one hand, humanity’s creative confidence for humanity has gone up as people of all ages are able to prompt whatever is in their mind’s eye and express themselves visually. We’... See more

The introduction of AI allows social media platforms to understand user intent beyond simple clicks. AI can process requests like "Help me stop doom‐scrolling" or "Give me Gaza updates without partisan dunks, under 200 words," providing a more nuanced understanding of user needs.

The concept of intelligence as a "social fractal" suggests that intelligence isn't a single, unified entity but rather a pattern of social organization and cognitive division of labor that repeats across different scales. This is related to the idea of "turtles all the way down," implying a potentially infinite regress of social structures within i

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