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What exactly is the bull case for your average Joe to be excited about for AI?

I think there are a lot of people who (naively) believe AI is going to lead to abundance for everyone. I think there are very rich people trying to sell that vision.

I think most of us know that even if AI could do all of our jobs, it won't be to give us free products and services.

Any rando might be able to push out their cute tool (hi mom!), this is what they (will) sell, but true leverage will happen for those that can allocate their vast resources to further dominate; The big players just appropriated the collective corpus of mankind’s knowledge.

“They can stay home and paint all day, for the machine will do their job.”

It’s trickle-down economics 2.0. The bullshit is the same.

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