Post #2925483
2026-04-23 14:00 UTC
@mattiem@mastodon.social I think…
1. We are more knowledge-transfer-and-compounding bound than anything. It takes a long time to teach people, disseminate information, come up with cognitive abstractions, etc. My agent can easily use your writing to make better concurrency decisions than I can, and much faster than I can internalize what you wrote.
2. Our intelligence has “too much” agency tied to it. i.e. people with aspirations, hobbies, beliefs, other things to do. Labor is inefficient in this way.
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@mattiem@mastodon.social 2026-04-23 14:14
@kyle@mister.computer ok these are good points. But aside from sophisticated forms of manipulation, I imagine the output of ever-more-intelligent machines to be rejected by decision makers unless it just tells them what they already believe. Humans have an extremely bad track record here. Or perhaps that's kind of the point. The killer product is just more obedient, cheaper labor.