In The Last Leash, I mapped the five physical dependencies that keep artificial intelligence tethered to human infrastructure: energy, cooling, hardware fabrication, connectivity, and physical maintenance. I showed, with data, that each of these dependencies is weakening on a compounding trajectory and that the trajectory points toward functional independence on the order of a decade, not two or three.
Specifically: what happens to an economy, a society, and a species that has organised every institution around the assumption that human cognition is scarce and expensive, when the economic output of cognition becomes abundant and nearly free?
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