Andrew Sage

There's not another indoor plumbing, right?

There's not something that's going to be as much of a sea change for the economy and for the quality of human life as those ideas because those were really big things.

Yeah, like maybe you could put it as something like actually cleaning the air that we breathe.

Yes, but again, that's not profitable in a direct way.

No.

That's an idea that would have a change that big, but there's not a profit incentive for it, right?

Don't we privatize the air, Robert?

Right.

Don't we privatize the fucking air?

Yeah.

And there's a lot.

Again, I find this this whole discussion pattern like it's an example of the fact that like people like this fucking Vox article who I don't feel like deserves to be named to this have been using chat GPT so much that they're no longer thinking they're not really sentient in a meaningful way.

Right.

Like when you when you write something like that, it's because your brain has been completely fucking cooked.

I did find a good article, ironically, from 2017 from Vox EU that is titled Ideas Aren't Running Out, But They Are Getting More Expensive to Find, which is making a lot of the claims that like I've made, which is that or that I've been bringing up so far in this, which is that.

It's not that there's a lack of ideas, that it costs more money to do stuff like that now.

Because everything's so much more complex, the big ideas we're looking at aren't as simple as indoor plumbing.

They require a lot more computing power.

They require a lot more people working on them.

We've plucked the low-hanging fruit.