Ashita Orbis//understanding ai7 protocols
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Learning path

You think in markets

For readers fluent in charts and economic reasoning but not in code. Start with work and incentives; branch into the machinery and the politics.

The path

  1. 1
    [1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models
    Andrej Karpathy · Video · 60 min watch · Introductory

    The one technical prerequisite — what the product actually is.

  2. 2
    Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier
    Ethan Mollick · Essay · 10 min read · Introductory

    The best field experiment on AI and productivity.

  3. 3
    Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI
    Noah Smith · Essay · 23 min read · Introductory

    Comparative advantage applied to AI, by an economist writing for everyone.

  4. 4
    The Cyborg Era: What AI means for jobs
    Séb Krier · Essay · 18 min read · Intermediate

    The same machinery with the concessions included — corner solutions and all.

Then follow your interest

How it works, and why it scales

  1. 1
    Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
    210 min watch · Intermediate

    Where the costs and capabilities actually come from.

  2. 2
    The Bitter Lesson
    5 min read · Introductory

    Why compute keeps winning — the supply side's founding text.

  3. 3
    The AI water issue is fake
    85 min read · Introductory

    Resource economics of data centers, done with real denominators.

Policy and trajectory

  1. 1
    AI as Normal Technology
    90 min read · Intermediate

    Diffusion, institutions, and why adoption lags capability.

  2. 2
    The AI 2040 Scenario (Plan A — The Deal)
    150 min read · Intermediate

    A macro scenario with employment and income tracked year by year.

The deeper questions

  1. 1
    Ghost in the Cloud
    35 min read · Introductory

    What the market is actually selling when it sells transcendence.

  2. 2
    Antiqua et Nova: Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence
    105 min read · Intermediate

    The human-anthropology baseline under all the welfare economics.