Most people I talk to still think AI’s biggest impact will be replacing jobs but they are missing the far bigger story entirely. For every job we lose, a new one will eventually be created. The real breakthrough is that for the first time in history humans can inference across almost the entirety of retained human knowledge in real time. Physics, economics, thermodynamics, mathematics, information theory, biology, networks, intelligence itself. Not as isolated disciplines anymore but as ONE interconnected system. I signed NDAs so I can’t say names or specifics but I once watched somebody start out trying to build autonomous blockchain infrastructure powered by agents and somehow end up discovering something far bigger along the way. He essentially managed to unify optimisation, entropy, economics, and physical persistence into one mathematical framework. I don’t mean philosophically I am talking literally. The closest way I ever hinted at it publicly was calling it “a new economy that mirrors the resilient elegance of living systems, like a star’s nuclear fusion sustaining its glow against entropy” crazy part is that once you see the underlying structure you start realising the same balancing principles appear everywhere. So in economies. In biological systems. In intelligence. In networks. In civilisations. genuinely I think when this eventually becomes public people will look back and realise AI was never important because it could imitate humans. It was important because it allowed humans to finally see patterns too large for individual minds to hold on their own… submitted by /u/MediumLibrarian7100
Originally posted by u/MediumLibrarian7100 on r/ArtificialInteligence