Tyler Cowen

So every few months, there are major advances.

And there's no sign of those stopping.

Well, I feel I understand the thing better than most people do for that reason.

But it's not entirely encouraging to me personally, selfishly, to be described that way.

Whether or not it's accurate, it just means I have a lot more new competition.

The AI is your smartest reader.

It's your most sympathetic reader.

It will remember what you tell it.

So I think humans should sit down and ask, what does the AI need to know?

And also, what is it that I know that's not on the historical record anywhere?

That's not just repetition, if I put it down, say, on the internet.

So there's no point in writing repetitions anymore, because the AI already knows those things.

So the value of what you'd call broadly memoir, biography, anecdote, you could say secrets, is now much higher.

And the value of repeating basic truths, which, by the way, I love as an economist, to be clear, like free trade, tariffs are usually bad.

Those are basic truths.

But just repeating that, people will be going to the AI and saying it again won't make the AI any better.

So everything you write or podcast, you should have this point in mind.

I've become fussier about my reading.

So I'll pick up a book and start and then start asking O3 or other models questions about the book.

So it's like I get a customized version of the book I want.