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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

Humans have always panicked about technology. You see the same echos in the arguments from the printing press to now. Yet humans have always, and amazingly, adapted. Almost zero jobs remain today as they existed just 100 years ago and we are better for that.

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Really enjoyed this. The cancer-as-GDP argument is one of those points that's obvious once someone says it and invisible until they do.

Where it gets tricky though: the whole model lives in the digital economy. The procurement manager's $3,400 startup works because software has near-zero marginal cost. But when you need robots, factories, supply chains, the barrier drops from $3M to maybe $300K, not $3,400. Still transformative, but way slower. The deflationary loop transmits fast in digital, slow in physical. The Intelligence Renaissance might arrive on very different timelines depending on which side of the atoms-vs-bits line you're on.

Also, love the "Intelligence Renaissance" framing. Beats the doom narratives by a mile.

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