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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • This is something I don’t think people are internalizing about (agentic) AI. Its disruption doesn’t stem from its “intelligence”, but in its persistence. We are very rapidly approaching an era of infinite agency, but our entire society is designed around people having limited agency. Everything assumes that a vast majority of people won’t bother to use their agency. Sending complaints to local government agencies, waiting in line for concert tickets, starting an online business, submitting pull requests, etc.; they all assume most people won’t bother; they’ll choose to use their limited agency on something else. Agentic AI will blow that all up; you’ll be able to point the AI at a goal on your behalf and not think about it again.

    AI slop will hypothetically vanish as AI improves, but that doesn’t do anything to address the fact that we’ll all have effectively infinite agency.