Ryan Sean Adams
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first heard Jan 2026
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And then there's also the argument that like, okay, I'm a lawyer and AI can never automate my task because there always has to be a human in the loop.
We have to have some level of human judgment.
I listed a bunch of things and I'm not sure to what extent some of these things are cope, just humans not being willing to sort of adapt to the future or like maybe another way to ask this is what do you think gets hit first by this AI automation wave and what gets hit hardest?
And I think everyone is asking like, am I safe?
Like who's safe here?
I think that's hard to reason about because maybe this is the first time that we've ever seen something akin to human cognition that is becoming cheaper over time and becoming far less scarce than it used to be.
I love the way your paper opens, which is kind of the historical landscape on 300,000 years of Homo sapiens.
where cognition really was the binding constraint for progress.
You said this in your thread, human cognition was the binding constraint.
And I think you're pointing to an era like of many different inventions, but I think you're pointing to an era where it was really like our brain size that was the limiter in terms of what technology we discovered and
or what progress we made in civilization or societal organization, that is no longer the constraint, I guess.
I think that's part of your thesis behind the new economics of artificial intelligence.
Can you talk about that?
Why is that insight profound in and of itself?
Okay, so you used the term verification, and that seems to be a central point of the paper itself.
But so far, we've said that there's really no distinction, I suppose, that's relevant in terms of taste or curation, really, and the things that humans can do but AIs can't do.
There's only really measurable and unmeasurable things.
And then also human cognition is no longer the binding constraint on progress because we have a different form of machine cognition that we're growing that maybe it can't do all of the things that human cognition can do, but it can do enough to really push us towards progress.
And so you said the scarcity will move from the idea of cognition maybe and the number of humans that we have or the applied human intelligence to something else.
And that something else is verification.
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