The cautious will consider that the current commonly repeated observations about en14n of the internet as an output of the dotcom bubble will continue, and might follow Moore's law: Thanks to AI en14n will double every 18 months and swell out into the economy at large as it explodes. (Tron Ares will be regarded as weirdly prescient like the movie Her.) Ofc a select cult of privileged carnival barkers will become rich beyond reckoning with the societal spotlights tracking their every move, while the commonwealth will continue to fracture into ruin.
All signs point to the collective mind going insane as it is overwhelmed by a map that's more detailed than the territory.
illiquid•8h ago
“OpenAI, with app-use/the router has taken a major leap in compressing this existing economic superintelligence into a legible, queryable, steerable system that gets better over time, and eventually one where improvements to the underlying system approximate improvements in actual total factor productivity.”
“Taken together, you can look at LLM chatbots that deeply integrate service providers as the Manhattan Project of economics, a radical experiment in expending huge sums of capital to crush transaction costs and then capture some of the resulting upside.”