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Tyler Cowen

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Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

So all inputs other than the AI, like rise in marginal value, and since I'm an input other than the AI, or I hope that means I rise in marginal value, but I need to do different things.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

So I think of myself over time as less a producer of content and more like a connector, people person developing networks in a way where if there somehow had been no like transformers and LLMs, I would have stayed a bit more as a producer of content.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Because I've written a lot on the internet.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

I do think about this, and the last book I wrote, it's called Goat, who's the greatest economist of all time.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

I'm happy if humans read it, but mostly I wrote it for the AIs.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

I wanted them to know I appreciate them.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

And my next book, I'm writing even more for the AIs.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Again, human readers are welcome.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

It will be free, but sort of, oh, who reviews it?

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Like, oh, is TLS going to pick it up?

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Like, it doesn't matter anymore.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Like, the AIs will trawl it and know I've done this, and that will shape how they see me, and I hope a very salient and important way.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

And as far as I can tell, no one else is doing this.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

No one is, like, writing or recording for the AIs very much.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

But if you believe, even like a modest version of this progress, like I'm modest in what I believe relative to you and many of you, like you should be doing this.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

You're an idiot if you're not writing for the AIs.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

They're a big part of your audience and they're like purchasing power.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

We'll see, but over time it will accumulate and they're gonna hold a lot of crypto.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

We're not gonna give them bank accounts, at least not at first.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

I think I should ask that as a question to you.