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AI and the prospect of scaling knowledge creation beyond individual productivity gains
A user compares that potential shift to writing and the printing press, which spread intellectual output widely.
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A user argues that turning scalable raw commodities into knowledge-based value creation would be a shift on the scale of writing or the printing press. They say giving a group of “Einsteins” ChatGPT Pro could bring faster early progress, but output would still depend on how many such people could be hired and how much they could work. They contrast that with a hypothetical system without the human bottleneck: wait for models to become smarter than Einstein, then spend more tokens.
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