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and likened it to COVID.
Yeah, he said that it was going to be like a COVID-like takeoff in the economy.
He didn't map the economic numbers directly, but we did.
We were like, okay, what was COVID actually like in 2020?
And we went from February, which is when he wrote his essay, February of 2026, saying AI is real.
It's going to change things.
It's big, which a lot of people have been saying for a long time.
And I was like,
I agree, but I don't think in April, May, the NBA is going to be shutting down because of AI.
Or I don't think that the unemployment rate is going to spike to 10% overnight.
There might be little pockets of layoffs related to AI, and there might be some...
If anybody wanted to make AI less popular, shutting down the NBA finals because of how good the models have gotten.
All the NBA players are like, we've got to invest.
They've got to invest their time.
Yeah, maybe.
They don't want to get left behind.
I don't think they'll be left behind.
But Matt Schumer said, someone should set up a community-funded Fable run with a prompt like,
slash loop until you've created a GTA 6 caliber open world game with a quality and scope surpassing what is shown in the initial trailers.
And he says, happy to write the prompt if someone organizes this, which some people were making fun of, but it started.