Ruminations on the Near Present
Ruminations on the Near Present
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GenSpark's Super Bowl Joke
What they're not saying is what they're really saying
If Only...
There was an article in the WSJ the other day about the new movie “Air,” detailing the history of Nike. At one point it said, “$10,000 invested when the Air Jordan shoe came out would be worth $15 million today.” A similar note was struck at one point in the excellent biography of John D. Rockefe...
Avoding Nation-State Handcuffs
The race for financial and energy independence

GenSpark's Super Bowl Joke
What they're not saying is what they're really saying
If Only...
There was an article in the WSJ the other day about the new movie “Air,” detailing the history of Nike. At one point it said, “$10,000 invested when the Air Jordan shoe came out would be worth $15 million today.” A similar note was struck at one point in the excellent biography of John D. Rockefe...
Avoding Nation-State Handcuffs
The race for financial and energy independence
AI, like every technological revolution before it, presents us with two choices.
Fight it, stick our heads in the sand, and resist.
Accept, embrace, and figure out how to leverage.
The technological genie is not going back into the bottle.
As Tyler Cowen argues (convincingly, imho) in Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history, the best thing you can do at a moment like this is dive in.
Dive into the AI.
Dive into the tools and the concepts.
Learn about prompt engineering.
Explore the 100 AI tools (and many more) that are out there.
It’s easier to envision destruction than creation, that is for sure, so it’s easy to imagine all of the jobs that will go away.
And many will.
What’s less easy to envision are the new jobs that have never been needed before that will emerge.
We won’t need CPAs, but what will we need?
We won’t need most copywriters or low-level programmers. What comes next?
These will only become clear when you engage with the tech.
AI, like every technological revolution before it, presents us with two choices.
Fight it, stick our heads in the sand, and resist.
Accept, embrace, and figure out how to leverage.
The technological genie is not going back into the bottle.
As Tyler Cowen argues (convincingly, imho) in Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history, the best thing you can do at a moment like this is dive in.
Dive into the AI.
Dive into the tools and the concepts.
Learn about prompt engineering.
Explore the 100 AI tools (and many more) that are out there.
It’s easier to envision destruction than creation, that is for sure, so it’s easy to imagine all of the jobs that will go away.
And many will.
What’s less easy to envision are the new jobs that have never been needed before that will emerge.
We won’t need CPAs, but what will we need?
We won’t need most copywriters or low-level programmers. What comes next?
These will only become clear when you engage with the tech.
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