Benedict Evans

So, of course, you can get to way more people quicker.

But do you have to keep asking, well, what?

Yes, but.

Why do so many more people look at this and not get it?

Or even worse, they're not getting it, I can kind of see.

Because people look at everything and don't get it.

Why is it that somebody looks at this and gets it and goes back every week, but only every week?

Why is it they can only think of something to do with this once a week?

Well, I'm not.

Again, I'm going to, all AI conversations seem to be analogies.

100%.

And it's like nuclear weapons.

No, it's not.

The comparison I think is interesting here.

It was not perfect, but it's interesting is to look at early spreadsheets for software spreadsheets, spreadsheets with paper.

Dan Bricklin creates, and I can't remember the other guy's name, he created PhysiCalc in the late 70s.

And I think to get an Apple II to run it with a screen and everything costs like 15 grand adjusted for inflation.

And you show this to an accountant and it's like you can change the interest rate here and all the other numbers change.

And we see that now and we're like, yes, 1978, that was a week of work.

Almost literally.