Country of Services
Backpropagating across a country
Surya Dantuluri
I train models, write, and build things on the internet.
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Information Asymmetry
High frequency info
Information-bound society
AGI shifts society from labor-bound to information-bound, where private information becomes the sharpest edge.
Blinders
You don't build by looking at every direction at once. You build by running the race in front of you.
Training Imperative
Labor priced in tokens
Teaching GPT-5 to Use a Computer
Towards self-driving computers
AGI diffusion
AGI diffusion is the bottleneck to getting intelligence to solve real world constraints across the economy.
Focus
Focus is choosing what you do when all things look urgent and all your instincts are noisy.
Up the intensity
Intensity wins against indecision; most of life is choosing how much clock speed to bring.
Information asymmetry
The biggest arbitrages happen when someone knows what others don't and can act sooner.
Trust Economy
Trust compounds over time, and trust is the true currency of high-trust systems.
Against mediocrity
Mediocrity compounds into bad decisions; quality compounds into optionality.
High Agency
Agency compounds by making valuable choices repeatedly, especially when no one is watching.
Love for the Game
When you love the work more than the outcome, the outcome becomes harder to avoid.
Speed Kills
Momentum creates information advantages that speed alone can unlock.
Just Ask
Information gets cheaper the sooner you ask for it and the sooner you hear 'no'.
Perceived Age
Perceived age is a byproduct of your choices, not your birthdate.
AGI is here
AGI is already changing the marginal output of intelligence; the institutions around it are just lagging.
Hero's Journey
The Hero's Journey
Legacy as narrative
Legacy is what remains when immediate outcomes disappear: a narrative that survives in people's decisions.
Intelligence Arbitrage
$25T Services Market
Perceived Age
Half Our Life is Over by 21
High Agency
Mastery in shape rotation
Social Capital
Interest paid in lifetimes
Vector Fields
Incentivizing work than hacking
DAgger Explained
Expert-guided imitation learning