Your difference is your advantage. Don’t trade it for imitation. The law of comparative advantage reminds us that the more different you are from others, the more valuable you are economically.

People are valuable because they are different. Everybody is unfathomably different from everyone else, yet society rarely harnesses that individuality.

When we spend our lives doing what everyone else does, we become more like machines and less like humans.

If there were an exact clone of you, your combined economic value wouldn’t double. Two identical individuals contribute little more than one.

Two identical machines add value through repetition; two identical humans lose value through sameness.

Artificial Intelligence, especially large language models (LLMs), has transformed the spread of knowledge, much like the printing press, computers, and the internet once did.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), however, represents something deeper. It’s about the creation and improvement of knowledge, not merely its distribution.

That ability to generate new ideas and share them is what made us human in the first place. We didn’t just pass on information; we created knowledge together.

No other species or machine has done that yet.

Notes from Prof. David Deutsch on a podcast this weekend. His explanation of AI Vs. AGI is simple but profound.

Blogging is something I enjoy, and I share my thoughts on my blog most weekends. Explore all my blogs at https://lnkd.in/ejq7CWaQ

I am also experimenting with cross-posting my blogs on Substack (@iamnoguru) and on my personal website (iamnoguru).

Take it easy until next time.

Blogging is something I enjoy, and I share my thoughts on my blog most weekends.

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