Curated. This post gave me a lot of concrete gears for understanding and predicting how AI will affect the economy in the near future. This wasn’t quite “virtue of scholarship” (my impression is Sarah is more reporting firsthand experience than doing research) but I appreciated the rich details.
I’m generally interested in curating posts where someone with a lot of industry experience writes up details about that industry.
Some particular notes:
I’m not surprised by “companies store their data really badly and siloed”, but I appreciated the gears of several incentives that make this not trivial to fix by just saying “c’mon guys” (i.e. legitimate fear of losing trade secrets), as well as dumb screwups.
Correspondingly, understanding how human-social-labor-intensive Palantir’s business model is, and why that’s hard to replicate. (This fits into John Wentworth’s Coordination as Scarce Resource)
Generally appreciating how long it takes technological changes to propagate.
Curated. This post gave me a lot of concrete gears for understanding and predicting how AI will affect the economy in the near future. This wasn’t quite “virtue of scholarship” (my impression is Sarah is more reporting firsthand experience than doing research) but I appreciated the rich details.
I’m generally interested in curating posts where someone with a lot of industry experience writes up details about that industry.
Some particular notes:
I’m not surprised by “companies store their data really badly and siloed”, but I appreciated the gears of several incentives that make this not trivial to fix by just saying “c’mon guys” (i.e. legitimate fear of losing trade secrets), as well as dumb screwups.
Correspondingly, understanding how human-social-labor-intensive Palantir’s business model is, and why that’s hard to replicate. (This fits into John Wentworth’s Coordination as Scarce Resource)
Generally appreciating how long it takes technological changes to propagate.