the k-shaped economy
This is the One Minute Blog (OMB). An email of good stuff for you to think about over the weekend, that takes a minute to read. [you walk in and see me sitting cross-legged, lighting candles, eyes closed] Welcome my friend…I’m Shaan the Seer™ – The Oracle of the East Bay. The Prince of Predictions. You: Oh.. I was actually just looking for a bathroom. But I guess I do have a question for you… Speak it. You: Well, I’m pretty worried about AI. It seems great - but I’m worried about the future. Is this going to replace my job? Mmmm… I see… a letter. You: A letter? Silence! Your words are disturbing my vision… the letter…X? No… C? no…AH YES. there it is. The letter is clear to my inner eye now. I see the letter K. You: The letter K..? Yes. The future is shaped like a K. There are two paths. The first path, like this… **takes out glitter pen** You: Oh sh*t! 80% of my skills will be replaced by AI? Yes dear. You are a horse. And Henry Ford just put a car on the road. The outlook is grim. Yo
the k-shaped economy the k-shaped economy This is the One Minute Blog (OMB) . An email of good stuff for you to think about over the weekend, that takes a minute to read. [you walk in and see me sitting cross-legged, lighting candles, eyes closed] Welcome my friend…I’m Shaan the Seer™ – The Oracle of the East Bay. The Prince of Predictions. You: Oh.. I was actually just looking for a bathroom. But I guess I do have a question for you… Speak it. You: Well, I’m pretty worried about AI. It seems great - but I’m worried about the future. Is this going to replace my job? Mmmm… I see… a letter. You:
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- Economics and Transformative AI | Tom Cunningham – Tom Cunninghamtecunningham.github.io
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- The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy.every.to
- Introducing the Anthropic Economic Index \ Anthropicanthropic.com
- Why I’m not worried about AI job lossdavidoks.blog
- Curated AI Career Advicesahebgulati.substack.com
- A New Year’s letter to a young person - by Luis Garicanosiliconcontinent.com
- A New Year’s letter to a young personsubstack.com
- Matt Shumer (@mattshumer_) on Xx.com
- What will be left for us to work on?normaltech.ai
- Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?dwarkesh.com