People like the farmer analogy for AI.

Like before tractors and the industrial revolution, 80% of the population had to farm. Once they came, all those jobs disappeared.

So the analogy makes perfect sense. Instead of 30 people tending a field, you just need 1. Instead of 30 software developers, you just need one.

Except that people forget one crucial thing about land: it’s a limited resource.

Unlike land, digital space is vast and infinite. Software can expand and multiply in it in arbitrarily complex ways.

If you wanted the farming analogy to keep up with this, you would have to imagine us creating continent-sized hydroponic terraces up until the stratosphere, and beyond…