The challenge, then, isn’t to beat the machines but to learn to work meaningfully alongside them.

https://open.spotify.com/track/3MebYJnEDK4XdnCj3VMLjL

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

What individualism teaches us is that society is greater than the individual only in so far as it is free. In so far as it is controlled or directed, it is limited to the powers of the individual minds which control or direct it. If the presumption of the modern mind, which will not respect anything that is not consciously controlled by individual reason, does not learn in time where to stop, we may, as Edmund Burke warned us, “be well assured that everything about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length our concerns are shrunk to the dimensions of our minds.” - F. A. Hayek

While it may not be difficult to destroy the spontaneous formations which are the indispensable bases of a free civilization, it may be beyond our power deliberately to reconstruct such a civilization once these foundations are destroyed. - F. A. Hayek

The real lesson is to accept scarcity, respect prices, and seek your comparative advantage in a world where AI is just another tool—not to retreat into a lonely, inefficient attempt to do by hand what your tools could help you transcend.

Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment https://propertyandfreedom.org/books/rothbard-100/

Regardless of the advancements in AI, the central question does not change: given scarcity, what should you do with your time, and what should you let the tools do?

Whenever people differ—and they always do—in skills, tools, knowledge, and circumstances, there exists some pattern of specialization and exchange that makes all of them better off than they would be alone. Crucially, no one needs to know this pattern in advance. No one has to sit down with a spreadsheet and assign roles. The market is the discovery process that finds and constantly updates the pattern of comparative advantages.