The Wisdom Wall
7 quotable lessons, heuristics and mental models. Every one is playable at the moment it was said. No fortune cookies allowed.
“Software engineering in the real world is so messy, you know, and there's all sorts of these things that come up. And I think in practice, you know, most disciplines look like this. And I would say the same thing about law or medicine or, and so on. And so while the general intelligence will continue to get smarter and…”
“The thing is when that happens, I don't think what we end up with is just pure ASI end of humanity, human knowledge work or whatever. I think the thing that we end up in is basically a point where the hard question is, all right, now what is the benchmark, right? And I think defining the benchmark in all of these…”
“seats don't really make sense when it is like, the AI themselves are arguably seats as well, you know, like they're, they're doing a lot of the labor too. And then on the other side, I think, um, you know, usage obviously just goes so naturally with the cogs themselves because a lot of this is, you know, effectively…”
“maybe harder is not the right word. It's more just that the space is a bit more mature, and there's more of a playbook and like more existing knowledge. Yes. There's, there's obviously something unique with every business, but a lot of the details of, you know, here's how you should structure equity. Here's how you…”
“AI is, I'd say, uniquely different from some of these previous ways, in an important way, which is, you know, personal computer, or internet, or mobile phone. All of these had a, one of two things, or often both. Um, one was a big hardware component, of like, yeah, you had to just go ship modems to everybody, and you…”
“I think for a less mature space, when people don't know what the, the right questions to ask are, or, or how to even kind of think about it, like the, what, what is the right frame of reference? Then I think there's something about just having a really sharp intuition and coming to your own conclusions. And then at…”
“what we will probably need to see a lot more of over time is basically, like, um, delegating access, if that makes sense. Like, making it more clear that an agent can do something on your behalf, and, you know, in some sense, you're attaching some of your reputation to it, too. Yes, yes. There's a monetary question of…”