Opinion: AI Collapses Information Gaps to Three Irreducible Forms
alexisgallagher · x · 2026-08-04
An underappreciated effect of AI is its ability to collapse information gaps to an irreducible form. In the future, the only remaining gaps will be Hayekian local knowledge, Polanyi's tacit knowledge, and strategic private knowledge. This points to a massive smoothing of global information flow.
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