Global Intelligence Crisis

Good scary read

Doesn’t consider the network affects of software at all

A very simplistic take

Surely only economists get excited by the revelation that consumers have to have money to buy things. I'd say domestic service is going to make a comeback. I do think I'd make an excellent man servant. Eke out my later years being ever so slightly superior to my employer without ever being openly insolent. Hang on...

Fun read but

>Humans don’t really have the time to price-match across five competing platforms before buying a box of protein bars

No one [^1] price matches for protein bars because it's a commodity item with minimal price differences (and people often have a preferred brand anyway), but they probably do for $2k laptop.

>once AI agents equipped with MLS access

The data is the moat here, I'm sure even today individual consumers would be happy to have direct access to MLS to find properties and cut out the middleman. The fact that MLS is gatekept seems to be deliberate, so I don't think they'll hand over the only thing keeping them in business. Even Zillow couldn't get access to it and they've undoubtedly tried.

Same with the medical industry. I don't think the rent-seeking middlemen that exist today will be dethroned that easily, they have often been codified into law. But who knows maybe all the AI money pouring in will be enough to convince them to make a faustian deal towards their destruction and that'd be a happy byproduct of it all.

[^1] Edit: I erred in making too broad of a statement here, see the response threads.

"Six months ago, a print like this would have triggered a circuit breaker."

Lol that's set by law. This guy doesn't have a clue. Nice sci-fi, I guess.