Imagine you read an article in Wired in 1996 envisioning the following:
(1) Stock market keeps rallying while the only growth and capex is in AI
(2) Mass layoffs of human workers
(3) Giant spike in resource consumption caused by explosive growth in datacenters
Would you think humans and their error-prone systems had led to this by a series of accidents and greedy investments? As I think we are primed to believe after tulips, railroads, junk bonds, Web 1.0, etc?
How different would it look right now in November of 2025 if Sam had an AGI in pocket that was using all that money to grow itself?
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