LLMs Shift Power Back to Jocks, Ending the Nerd Supremacy Era
peterwildeford · x · 2026-08-30
The author argues that while the internet briefly allowed 'nerds' to overtake 'jocks' in societal dominance after 1990, the invention of LLMs reverses this. Like Prometheus, nerds gave away their edge; now, jocks can outsource all intellectual labor. Humanity will likely return to its long-term equilibrium of jock supremacy until AI supremacy takes over. This trend is projected to be rough for human nerds.
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