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Value moves to what stays scarce

When something becomes cheap and plentiful, the value moves to whatever is still rare next to it.

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Adam MosseriAlexandr WangAnn HandleyAustin VernonBoris ChernyJeff DeanJohn BaiTerence Tao

The structures of science now have to change, because the scarce thing is no longer proposing theories but verifying and evaluating the thousands anyone can now propose.

  1. Terence Tao So, we're now in a situation where suddenly people can generate thousands of theories for a given scientific problem. And now we have to to verify them, evaluate them and this is something which we we have to to change our structures of science to actually sort this out. Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AIyoutube.com · 20 Mar 2026 · 0:12:36 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    So, we're now in a situation where suddenly people can generate thousands of theories for a given scientific problem. And now we have to to verify them, evaluate them and this is something which we we have to to change our structures of science to actually sort this out.

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    ↗Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AIyoutube.com

    20 Mar 2026 · video · 1h 23m · spoken · machine transcript

When agents do the building, the scarce skill is taste: choosing which problem is worth the time at all.

  1. Jeff Dean Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research Yeah, I mean I think it's really having incredibly good taste in what you ask your agents to work on, right? That is the the crux of you know from my background uh a research problem. You know, a researcher can have all the tools and all the techniques, but often most of the battle is what problem are you gonna spend your time on? Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AIyoutube.com · 30 Jul 2026 · 34:03 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    Yeah, I mean I think it's really having incredibly good taste in what you ask your agents to work on, right? That is the the crux of you know from my background uh a research problem. You know, a researcher can have all the tools and all the techniques, but often most of the battle is what problem are you gonna spend your time on?

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    ↗Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AIyoutube.com

    30 Jul 2026 · video · 57m · spoken · machine transcript

The scarce resource is about to stop being intelligence or agency and become vision and ambition.

  1. Alexandr Wang Founder of Scale AI and, since 2025, Chief AI Officer… all of a sudden, the scarce resource isn't going to be intelligence or agency. I really think it's going to be vision and ambition. Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”youtube.com · 29 Jul 2026 · 22:15 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    all of a sudden, the scarce resource isn't going to be intelligence or agency. I really think it's going to be vision and ambition.

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    ↗Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”youtube.com

    29 Jul 2026 · video · 32m · spoken · machine transcript

An abundance of synthetic content will make people seek out the person behind the content more, not less.

  1. Adam Mosseri Head of Instagram since 2018 but I think people are going to really seek out other points of view because Instagram was never just about the content. It was always about to a certain degree the person behind the content, the point of view, the reason they're sharing it, their perspective. And I think that's going to become more important, not less. The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG)youtube.com · 9 Jul 2026 · 0:43:07 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    but I think people are going to really seek out other points of view because Instagram was never just about the content. It was always about to a certain degree the person behind the content, the point of view, the reason they're sharing it, their perspective. And I think that's going to become more important, not less.

In an age of abundant information, a person's judgment, taste and perspective are their primary value as a writer.

  1. Ann Handley Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing Information is ridiculously abundant. Your judgment, taste, and perspective are literally all you have to work with now. Make Posteingänge Sexy Again: 9 Ingredients for an Email Readers Want to Openannhandley.com · 8 Sept 2026All korrents from this piece
    Information is ridiculously abundant. Your judgment, taste, and perspective are literally all you have to work with now.

An industrial robot does not replace labour, it shifts labour from hourly workers to scarce skilled ones.

  1. Austin Vernon Engineer and investor who writes quantitative posts… The key is that robot arms are not labor-replacing, but labor-shifting. Speed Can Reindustrialize Americaaustinvernon.site · 12 Feb 2026All korrents from this piece
    The key is that robot arms are not labor-replacing, but labor-shifting.

The scarce skill is now context switching across parallel agents, not sustained deep work.

  1. Boris Cherny Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic It’s not so much about deep work, it’s about how good I am at context switching and jumping across multiple different contexts very quickly. Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny — The Pragmatic Engineernewsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · 4 Mar 2026
    It’s not so much about deep work, it’s about how good I am at context switching and jumping across multiple different contexts very quickly.

You can build anything now, but not everything is worth building; what matters is whether ideas take a shape somebody else would want to use.

  1. John Bai Designer at SpaceXAI in New York working on Grok Bot we're in a we're in a time where you can build anything, but not everything is worth building. It's much less about, you know, how many ideas you have, how clever your ideas are, but do they take the shape that somebody else would want to use John Bai - The Grok Bot design journeyyoutube.com · 25 Aug 2026 · 40:17 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    we're in a we're in a time where you can build anything, but not everything is worth building. It's much less about, you know, how many ideas you have, how clever your ideas are, but do they take the shape that somebody else would want to use

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    ↗John Bai - The Grok Bot design journeyyoutube.com

    25 Aug 2026 · video · 48m · spoken · machine transcript

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