AGI is coming, but I still have to unload the dishwasher
Introducing Takeoff Tracker
Two that are both true right now:
AI-related hype is off the charts. I don’t want to hear about your company’s AI-native back massager and yes some of the bets on AI will blow up in big, messy ways.
The cope is real. Plenty of smart people insist that AI is a nothingburger, citing No true Scotsman fallacies and failing to see how quickly the ground is moving underneath their goalposts.
It’s a Kafkaesque moment: “Germany invades Russia. Swimming in the afternoon.”
Watching the singularity begin to unfold feels both surreal and oddly normal. I look around and things are already a good bit different than 2022 (AI images, video, and music, riding Waymos) but I’ve rapidly become accustomed to the changes and much of my life is unaffected.
I’ll be publishing short posts (under 1,000 tokens 😉) on what’s the parts of the AGI story that really matter and whether it’s time to move to a bunker in Wyoming or buy more NVIDIA stock (both?).
Takeoff Tracker, along with this substack, is a place where we can connect the dots between the wild tech side and the normie, real world side.
Glad you made it here. Buckle up because it’s going to get weird.
Kevin
Short post. Great writing!