@paulg: There were a lot of things that only worked because there's a limit to the rate at which humans can operate. We're abou…
Summary
Paul Graham muses that many systems and institutions only functioned because of the natural speed limit on human activity, and predicts society will now discover all of them as they fail under AI-accelerated speed.
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