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I was watching the latest round of Silicon Valley AI panic this week. Software developers now openly admit AI is their equal at doing their job. CEOs of AI companies are calmly predicting the end of white-collar work within two years or scared governments will be using the AI tools to further control their population. Who knows what will happen. Some predict mass layoffs. Others predict AI will make everyone wealthier. Or something even weirder can happen. Technology is unpredictable. Photography changed the direction of painting forever. No one predicted that. We thought the smartphone would create more localism. But it turned out it just made everyone around the world the same. We assumed the smartphone would accelerate political change. What it actually did was multiply protests while limiting revolutionary action. Documenting an event replaced doing something about it. The smartphone converted revolutionary energy into passive documentation. While the CEO of Anthropic described a f

The Concentric Life 0 The Lindy Newsletter Posts The Concentric Life The Concentric Life Paul Skallas February 19, 2026 I was watching the latest round of Silicon Valley AI panic this week. S oftware developers now openly admit AI is their equal at doing their job. CEOs of AI companies are calmly predicting the end of white-collar work within two years @financialtimes Is there a difference between super-intelligence and artificial general intelligence? CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman joins FT editor... See more or scared governments will be using the AI tools to further control their popu

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