Does AI widen the gap between hypercompetitive people and everyone else? If some use it to get 10–100x more done while others use it to work less, who pulls ahead? Sam Altman: “Left to its own devices, I think probably.” He thinks society will need safeguards to keep that... gap from getting out of hand.show more

I think it's less about hypercompetitive and more about who actually sits down and learns the tools.

the grinders pull ahead. always did

The answer is no. It’s clear

That gap has always existed. Now it can just be even more extreme

Nah… if anything it has made the gap less obvious, and probably even reversed the rankings.

already seeing it around me. the people pulling ahead hand agents real work and check it. everyone else is still asking them questions

It is not conscious but it can be smarter and more power efficient and so much less wasted tokens.

pacing the frontier is the modern socialism

getting the same work done and having your evening back is pulling ahead too tbh

sam needs leg day

Unfortunately there's still people out there not even touching tech. Gap is real and huge. Working on fixing that.

i actually would like the gap to get bigger as long as everyone has the essentials covered keep the thinkers thinking and innovating stop forcing poor thinkers into positions of power through seniority

What we built and tested, is a functional / Access Consciousness; A Machine That Knows What It Knows

The gap was always there; AI just put a turbo on it. Best safeguard I know is cheap, patient teaching. Curiosity scales better than any policy.

One person’s productivity gain can become everyone else’s new baseline. As AI lets some people accomplish more in the same amount of time, employers and customers may start expecting more from everyone. Someone could become twice as productive and still end up working the same hours because the expectations around them have changed.

The 10x crowd was already 10x before the tools showed up, AI just made the compounding visible.

Who is getting 10x done? Maybe programmer is getting 2x, YouTubers that live from hype cycle might as well… in my field it makes 0,5% difference…

the leverage might be temporary because we're pushing this thing way too hard so progress is inorganically scaling fast whatever skill or edge you currently have gets watered down by Opus 6 and then again by 7. You can try riding the exponential maybe but skill stuff is a lie

looks like a Kamala harris or any other Democrat interview where shaking their hands will add enough distraction of the truth. don't sell your soul for clicks matty

Great

it widens it. the grinders just got a cheat code

the gap could get uncomfortable pretty quickly

Altman's point about safeguards is fair, but I think the biggest one already exists: open-source AI. When anyone can run a solid model locally, the advantage stops being about budget and starts being about drive.

Those with the will, drive, and determination will always win, no matter the circumstances.