I think we can all agree that GPT-4 completes many tasks at human-level proficiency. It is imperfect in odd ways -- it can write software like a smart MIT undergrad, but can't do basic task planning like an entry-level EA. It speaks all languages, but can barely do math. Suppose the progress doesn't stop, just like GPT-4 was better than 3, GPT-5 is capable of basic agentic behavior -- i.e. able to accept a task, work on it for a while, and return results.

Some modest fraction of Upwork tasks can now be done with a handful of electrons. Suppose everyone has an agent like this they can hire. Suppose everyone has 1,000 agents like this they can hire...

What does one do in a world like this?

Markets

• In a post-AGI world, where does value accrue?
• What happens to NVIDIA, Microsoft?
• Is copper mispriced?

Real-estate

• If globalization is the metaphor, and the thing can just write all software, is SF the new Detroit?
• How does AI change wealth inequality?

Energy and datacenter

• If it does become an energy game, what's the trade?
• Across the entire datacenter supply chain, which components are hardest to scale up 10x? What is the CoWoS of datacenter?
• Is coal mispriced?

Nations

• Who wins and loses?
• $250b of India’s GDP exports are essentially GPT-4 tokens… what happens now?
• What is the euclidean distance of reskilling in prior revolutions, and how does AGI compare? The typist became an EA, can the software engineer become a machinist?
• Electrification and assembly lines lead to high unemployment and the New Deal, including the Works Progress Administration, a federal project that employed 8.5m Americans with a tremendous budget… does that repeat?
• Is lifelong learning worth investing in? Something worth doing beyond the economic value of mastering the task?

Inflation

• If AI is truly deflationary, how would we know? What chart or metric would show that first?
• How should one think of deflation if demand for intellectual goods continues to grow as production costs go down?

Geopolitics

• Does interconnect actually matter?
• Does node process matter if the country has more energy? Can AGI be achieved in 14nm + 10x watts?
• What is the likely "Taiwan event", and what would be a leading indicator for it?