@tobi: Great read from Patrick, as always. “Personal agents will, I think, act as a kind of structural subsidy for product qua…
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Tobi Lütke shares and endorses Patrick Collison's thoughts on how personal AI agents could act as a structural subsidy for product quality in the economy, touching on companies as the original superintelligence.
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Great read from Patrick, as always.
“Personal agents will, I think, act as a kind of structural subsidy for product quality.”
Yes, and well put.
Patrick Collison (@patrickc): Assorted things I’ve been mulling over regarding agents in the economy:
• Companies are in some sense the original superintelligence. It’s often the case that they can use their amortized cognitive surplus to advance their interests against those of certain consumers: relative
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