I want to talk about something that doesn't get enough airtime in the AI conversation. Not robots taking jobs. Not Skynet. Something quieter, and in some ways more profound.
What happens when uncertainty goes away?
The first time I rode in a self-driving car, my hands gripped the door handle. Nobody in the front seat. The car pulled into traffic and I held my breath. Half a block later, I let go. By the end of the ride, I trusted it more than I trusted most human drivers. I had adapted — intellectually, emotionally — in about ninety seconds.
That capacity to adapt is going to matter, because what's coming isn't just automation. It's something closer to omniscience.
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, the AI has traced the cascade: a typhoon delays a shipment, the shipment delay tightens copper supply, tight copper raises construction costs, rising construction costs in Phoenix suppress new housing starts — and existing inventory in three specific zip codes is about to get more expensive. It also knows, because it holds the information advantage nobody else has yet, that Tesla is about to rise.
Buy at 10:52. Sell at 11:22.
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You don't have to agree with me. You just have to be civil. I'm genuinely open to being convinced otherwise.