We’re About to See Things Humanity Has Never Seen Before | Thinking Out Loud

00:00 — Opening / What this video is about

Hey, welcome back to Slow Builds.

So this video is gonna be sort of about the idea that we’re about to see stuff we’ve never seen before.

And I don’t even think our minds can imagine it.

It kind of goes off another video I did recently about if everyone has access to AI.

So what happens then?

The creativity that comes from that.

The people that had zero access, all of a sudden they have access.

So this goes along the lines with that one.

This is kind of a continuation from that one.

00:33 — Survival pressure and unused creativity

Basically, I was talking about how there are probably millions of people in the world with ideas and creativity and potential, but most of their energy gets consumed just trying to survive life.

Bills.
Stress.
Work.
Exhaustion.

Just trying to stay alive.

Who knows what situation people are going through, from third-world countries to developed countries.

And because of that, a huge amount of human creativity probably never fully appears.

Not because people aren’t capable of it, but because they never really get enough room to explore it.

They don’t have the time, the energy, the effort, the space to just let their brains be creative.

01:23 — Why this moment feels different

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what happens if that starts changing.

Because honestly, I think we’re entering one of the most exciting periods humans have ever lived through.

More exciting than the industrial age.

Well, all those ages had to happen to get here, but the speed they took to become known to the world and for the world to take advantage of them took a lot longer than what we’re seeing happening today.

And I also think a lot of people still don’t fully see what’s happening yet, and how quickly it’s happening.

02:01 — Big changes used to take time

Obviously humanity has gone through all these things before.

The internet.
Television.
Color.
Remote controls.
Mobile phones.

Those changed society completely.

They really did, and they got us to where we are today.

Most of those changes came slow.

They took time.

Distribution of the new systems, the impact it had, getting it up and running.

It didn’t all happen super quick all the time.

Even the internet itself took years to hit normal life.

Everyday people getting access to it.

But that is a stepping stone to where we are today.

02:44 — The infrastructure is already here

AI feels totally different because now all that infrastructure is in place.

And we’re even building it more while we’re using it.

AI is helping us decide how to build it for itself.

That’s the scary part about it.

The phone already exists.
The computers, we already have them.
The chips, we’re building more.
Satellites are going up.
We have solar power.
We have data centers.
Nuclear plants are coming back online.

We have everything in place that we need.

We need more, but we have a lot of it.

So the improvements now spread almost instantly.

A new model comes out and millions of people have it already.

A method goes out, it gets leaked, and then millions of people have it open.

Everyone has access to do whatever they want.

Create their own crypto, have their own agent go out and sell it and buy it and do whatever.

So the speed that we have access to things now, that’s a big difference.

A big changer.

A big barrier breaker.

03:57 — Who gets access this time

I think the real important part is who gets access this time.

Historically, powerful tools belonged to a small group of people.

People with money.
Education.
Connections.
Large companies and corporations.
People with status.

You usually had to get invited to the party to have access to a new system or a new thing, or even to be able to purchase it.

But AI feels different because suddenly regular people can now do things that used to require entire teams, years of training, and experience.

You can learn faster.
Research faster.
Build software.

The new Google one, I’ve got to get my hands on it, could build a game just by talking.

Art is a questionable one.

There are new movies out.
There are new videos.
Music and stuff like that.

So I think art is being created quickly, but I think art is one of those things that will still stay authentic in different forms.

Same with writing.

But even writing now, people can quickly do up manuscripts.

They can get ideas pumped out pretty quickly and organized.

Brainstorming.

But I still don’t edit these.

Man, I hope maybe someday I can figure out how, but I’m trying to avoid that at the moment.

Starting businesses, translating ideas into something real happens almost instantly and in real time.

And yeah, it’s still rough around the edges, but the barrier between an idea and execution is collapsing incredibly fast.

And that’s the part that feels historic to me.