a relatively difficult historical reality is that no matter how many people are alive on earth at a given moment there seems to be a relatively constant and small number of people really driving culture, science, and industry forward progress doesn’t scale with population

this is where the ai boosterism really becomes unserious, having “1000x biologists” will not allow us to cure disease 1000x faster. the vast majority of thinking is structurally important to the _person_ but requires true and rare inspiration to become societally important