It’s useful to note that of the three things you list, only one is rivalrous. Mental habits and personal datasets are not, perhaps, equally available to everyone, but the limit is not about division but just … personal limits. There’s no zero-sum elements where someone gets better mental habits only by someone else getting less.
Classic capital IS rivalrous and, on large scales, zero-sum. Money is only valuable if it moves from one entity to another, and only because nobody can have enough of it.
To the extent that having money is (even more than today) the best way to get more money, it seems likely that the best advice to prepare for that world is to collect “classic capital” in forms that will retain or increase in value as things change. You can always HIRE people (or AIs) with good habits and personal datasets.
Note: like “first, catch a rabbit”, or “first, create the universe” as the first step in making rabbit stew, this advice may be correct, but that doesn’t make it useful.
I think I focused too much on the “competitive” part, but my main point was that only certain factors would maintain a difference between individuals productivity, whether they are zero-sum or not. If future AI assistants require large personal datasets to perform well, only the people with preexisting datasets will perform well for a while, even though anyone could start their own dataset at that point.
It’s useful to note that of the three things you list, only one is rivalrous. Mental habits and personal datasets are not, perhaps, equally available to everyone, but the limit is not about division but just … personal limits. There’s no zero-sum elements where someone gets better mental habits only by someone else getting less.
Classic capital IS rivalrous and, on large scales, zero-sum. Money is only valuable if it moves from one entity to another, and only because nobody can have enough of it.
To the extent that having money is (even more than today) the best way to get more money, it seems likely that the best advice to prepare for that world is to collect “classic capital” in forms that will retain or increase in value as things change. You can always HIRE people (or AIs) with good habits and personal datasets.
Note: like “first, catch a rabbit”, or “first, create the universe” as the first step in making rabbit stew, this advice may be correct, but that doesn’t make it useful.
I think I focused too much on the “competitive” part, but my main point was that only certain factors would maintain a difference between individuals productivity, whether they are zero-sum or not. If future AI assistants require large personal datasets to perform well, only the people with preexisting datasets will perform well for a while, even though anyone could start their own dataset at that point.