*Our education systems, social safety nets, and concept of "work" are the Kodak and Blockbuster of social structures — optimized for a linear world* https://pablooliva.de/the-closing-window/ais-social-trap/

*The complexity that feels insurmountable at the macro level dissolves when you tackle it step by step, in tighter scope. AI excels at that. The real constraint isn't complexity — it's whether the context can be digitized. And most institutional knowledge, given time and the right tooling, can be.* https://pablooliva.de/the-closing-window/the-workplace-blind-spot/

https://stacker.news/items/1446875/r/halalmoney

*bottlenecks are not natural obstacles – they are, in most cases, the consequence of increasing production until you hit a bottleneck. If AI removes a bunch of bottlenecks, that won’t be used to produce the same output faster and cheaper, it will be used to produce a lot more output until a new bottleneck is reached and requires human intervention* https://backofmind.substack.com/p/finally-we-have-created-the-silver

The more chilling the winter, the more glorious the spring

*There's no firewall between the most capable people in business and the power of the state, business and state are just tools wielded as leverage over society in general. People tend to either think that businesses run the government, or that the government interferes with business, when in reality they are levers on the same machine.* https://stacker.news/items/1440441/r/halalmoney?commentId=1441492

*The deeper story is this: for decades, COBOL modernization was a lucrative, slow-moving professional services business precisely because the complexity was intractable without armies of specialists. AI doesn't just make that cheaper — it potentially makes the entire consulting model obsolete. When the cost of understanding legacy code drops to near zero, the business model built on that cost collapses.* Claude

*Be small enough that the competitve pressure doesn't distort your priorities. Be opinionated enough that you can't be dragged into building the same thing as everyone else. Be capitally efficient enough that you don't need the growth rate that forces you onto the treadmill. Be weird enough that nobody can copy you without becoming you.* https://www.joanwestenberg.com/everyone-in-ai-is-building-the-wrong-thing-for-the-same-reason/

*Fear is there to give you important information, not to paralyze you*

*Everyone is trying to figure out how to be their own boss before the system breaks*

There is no guarantee that the Fiat 🐛 will be displaced by the Bitcoin 🦋 . Nor do we know the timescales of success or failure.

Nature > slop