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Demis Hassabis has drawn a parallel between coal for the industrial revolution, and the internet for an intelligence revolution of LLMs. That's a fundamentally extractive claim. Coal isn't spontaneously generated, like content o...
...abor. Now we have abundant cognitive labor. This will change even more than the Industrial Revolution did. Infinite software is downstream of cognitive labor being abundant. But it's just the most obvious, immediate outcome. There will be tons of othe...
Chris Loy argues we're about to see the industrial revolution of software. On the one hand, the idea that we've been at the hand-crafted / high friction style of software to date does resonate. But unlike in the...
Everything before the Industrial Revolution was fundamentally resonant by default. Hollowness only comes from an industrial process that is scaled.
Before the Industrial Revolution only rich people could have nice things and everything was bespoke. After the first Industrial Revolution everyone could have good things that are ma...
For the Industrial Revolution to be sustainable for humans we had to invent the weekend. Before the Industrial Revolution there was much more rest time. The Industrial Revolution ...
Modernity and resonance have been in tension since the industrial revolution. But they don't have to be! To get scale, you need to quantize, and to quantize you need to distill a rich, multi-dimensional resonant nuance down to...
Is AI more like the Industrial Revolution or the invention of literacy? The latter shaped our thoughts in new ways not possible before. Entire religions were founded based on the power of the...
...ful tweet from Ethan Mollick: "It wasn't the steam engine alone that caused the Industrial Revolution. It was the thousands of specific machines invented by skilled craftsmen that used steam to augment or do existing work that created the Revolution A...