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I’m chronically online, finding out how the world works.

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I’ll quote entrepreneur Shaan Purri here —
“There's a golden generation right now that can use AI to cheat on everything, before the school system adapts to AI. It's like the Sammy Sosa/McGwire steroids era of education right now.”

This feels pretty on-the-nose tbh.

But despite this, I think AI will be an overall net benefit for humankind — it’ll be more like how the computer and all its software made white-collar workers way more productive, no longer having to do the same tasks on paper and manual calculators.

AI will free up a lot of us from doing silly little tasks, like analyzing data in an Excel spreadsheet, to focus on doing more important things and building up skills.

Prepare for The Great Reallocation of Labor!

For a great summary by technology analyst, Ben Thompson, scroll after the tweet below :)

**I’ll leave you with this beautifully simple yet profoundly hard-hitting tweet (at least, that’s how I feel) 🫠

For all the girlies that have figured out how drinking water does, in fact, make you feel better.

— from Ben Thompson:

If there is a single phrase that describes the effect of the Internet, it is the elimination of friction. With the loss of friction, there is necessarily the loss of everything built on friction, including value, privacy, and livelihoods. And that’s only three examples! The Internet is pulling out the foundations of nearly every institution and social more that our society is built upon.

Count me with those who believe the Internet is on par with the industrial revolution, the full impact of which stretched over centuries. And it wasn’t all good. Like today, the industrial revolution included a period of time that saw many lose their jobs and a massive surge in inequality. It also lifted millions of others out of sustenance farming. Then again, it also propagated slavery, particularly in North America. The industrial revolution led to new monetary systems, and it created robber barons. Modern democracies sprouted from the industrial revolution, and so did fascism and communism. The quality of life of millions and millions was unimaginably improved, and millions and millions died in two unimaginably terrible wars.

Change is guaranteed, but the type of change is not; never is that more true than today. See, friction makes everything harder, both the good we can do, but also the unimaginably terrible. In our zeal to reduce friction and our eagerness to celebrate the good, we ought not lose sight of the potential bad.

Until next week 🍻

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Zach

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