David Hoffman
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David Hoffman
@TrustlessState
Optimistic storyteller of frontier technology. The chaotic side of @Bankless


LIVE NOW - Your Job Will Be Automated. Here's the Only Skill That Survives. Intelligence is becoming cheap, so what becomes expensive? MIT economist @ccatalini, co-founder of Lightspark, joins Bankless to break down his new paper "Some Simple Economics of AGI." Expect to learn: - why verification (the human ability to check AI output) is now the binding constraint, - what the "codifier's curse" means for anyone using AI at work, - yhe three roles that survive: Directors, Meaning Makers, and Liability Underwriters, - why crypto's primitives (proof of personhood, provenance, chain of custody) may be exactly what the agentic economy needs. Enjoy. -------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 3:42 The Low-Grade Panic 6:43 Who Gets Hit First, and Hardest? 13:06 Coding as Canary, or Exception? 16:21 Human Cognition Was the Binding Constraint 19:59 What Is Verification, Exactly? 29:10 The Codifier's Curse 31:21 The Expanding Iceberg: Non-Measurable Work 38:32 The Two Racing Cost Curves 41:59 Trojan Horse Externality 48:46 The Four Quadrants: Where Do You Want to Be? 54:12 Liability Underwriters and the Venture Capital Parallel 55:41 Directors: Navigating Unknown Unknowns 59:49 60-80% of Your Job Can Be Displaced 1:06:24 Button Pushers vs. Founders: The Great Resorting 1:12:08 The Luddite Risk: Political Backlash Against AI 1:17:30 What Companies and Investors Should Do 1:22:56 The Crypto Connection 1:25:11 Don't Panic: A Closing Playbook









JFK rn

A lot of people on CT hate Ethereum bc it breaks their worldview. Bitcoin is static. Alt L1s are VC-funded, ship-fast tech cultures. Ethereum sits in the middle: decentralized, messy, evolving, with only light coordination from the EF. It gets attacked from all sides. But that’s exactly why it will continue to win. It’s built for the long term, and aligned with a positive, open vision of the world.

congrats @BitMNR +65k additional ETH $1.1b in cash $BMNR


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