Every industrial revolution is the same move — routing around a bottleneck — and the bottleneck before ours was the limit of what a human or a horse could digest.

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• The bottleneck in AI is no longer the progress of the models but their diffusion — if the models froze today, the economy would still take decades to absorb what already exists. AWAlexandr Wang29 Jul 2026
• A pre-modern countryside produces an enormous amount of food and almost no extractable surplus, which is the hard limit on everything the state above it can do. BDBret Devereaux24 Jul 2020
• AI will have ten times the impact of the Industrial Revolution and arrive ten times faster, which is what will make it hard for society to absorb. DHDemis Hassabis23 Jul 2025
• Being a rich or efficient agrarian economy is not what produces an industrial revolution, or one would have happened much earlier and somewhere other than Europe. BDBret Devereaux26 Aug 2022
• For the whole of human history the bottleneck on progress has been getting a group of smart people together around a shared goal. AWAlexandr Wang29 Jul 2026

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