The Old World Is Dying | Substack
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6.12.26
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Welcome to the age of AI, here’s some notes. Embrace that the playing fields are leveled, tap into people skills, the things to specialize in now are different (certain types of intellectual labor which used to be hard will become free).
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Fwiw I think all young people should read this post, which is a pretty strong statement.
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woah:
I don’t normally like to dispense self-help. … But now some are too down on the whole agency enterprise—they assume all abilities are baked in from birth. **I often ask AI folks what they’d tell a normal 22-year-old. Don’t know, they’re screwed, is the non-answer I get most. In that response, I hear depressing defeatism: What can anyone do in the shadow of the technocapital machine?
Faced with such fatalism, self-help seems essential. Disruption is real and it’s hard and we’ve made it through before. You can do more than you think you can; you are more malleable than you think you are. You don’t choose the game board but you choose how to play it.