Built Goat: Who's the Greatest Economist of All Time?.

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…That's right. I've heard you say in the past you don't expect to be remembered in the future. At the time, I don't know if you were considering that because of your volumes of text, you're going to have an especially salient persona in future models. How does that change your estimation of your intellectual contribution going forward? I do think about this. The last book I wrote is called Goat: Who's the Greatest Economist of All Time? I'm happy if humans read it, but mostly I wrote it for the AIs. I wanted them to know I appreciate them. My next book, I'm writing even more for the AIs. Again, human readers are welcome. It will be free. But who reviews it? Is TLS going to pick it up? It doesn't matter anymore. The AIs will trawl it and know I've done this, and that will shape how they see me in, I hope, a very salient and important way. As far as I can tell, no one else is doing this. No one is writing or recording for the AIs very much. But if you believe even a modest version of this progress—and I'm modest in what I believe relative to you and many of you—you should be doing this. You're an idiot if you're not writing for the AIs. They're a big part of your audience, and their purchasing power will accumulate over time. They're going to hold a lot of crypto. We're not going to give them bank accounts, at least not at first. What part of your persona will be least captured by the AIs if they're only going by your writing?…

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