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There exists a vast pool of technologies that are potentially superior to those we employ today, but which require scale and learning curves to reach their potential. Advanced nuclear reactors are one such technology - they are more expensive than alternatives today, but manufactured at scale, and benefiting from the learning curves required to get there, may become cheaper than other generation technologies.

Packy McCormick
4d ago

Every major technological boom has produced the same figure, the person who gives everything to the wave. During the industrial revolution, it was the factory worker. During the Gold Rush, it was the men who left their families and headed west. During the dotcom boom, it was the founders sleeping under their desks in SoMa. Now, it is the person who is building, building, always building — vibe coding at midnight, constantly upgrading their models—convinced that stopping for five minutes means missing everything.

2w ago

Fashion moves faster than commerce, which moves faster than infrastructure, then governance, then culture, then nature.

1mo ago

Basically, none of these groups thinks that any amount of AI capabilities will enable economic take-off. To me, that suggests that they're thinking — perhaps subconsciously — about something more than just friction and slow adoption. One possibility — which I should write about more — is that people suspect that humanity is getting satisfied, at least in the developed countries, and that the amount of new valuable things that even a godlike AI could create for us is limited by our inability to desire more goods and services.

1mo ago

This Generative AI momentum is creating a lot of optimism around the potential of one person companies or solopreneurs using agentic AI. If Agentic AI works out, small businesses might have a new array of powerful tools as well.

2mo ago

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