“We’re now at the point where no further development on AI capabilities (or anything else interesting) will ever need to be built on a worse cognitive substrate than what we currently have. This “what you see today is the floor, not the ceiling” is one of the things I think best understood by insiders and worst understood by policymakers and the broader world.” – Patrick McKenzie (20260110)
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- 1-2g1c2 You can be {Your mind + Second Brain + Mental models + LLM with your data + your scripts-codes represented via machines}
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