Intelligence is becoming abundant: every institution built on scarcity is now obsolete
r0ck3t23 · x · 2026-10-23
A widely-shared long-form thread argues that the costs of knowledge, creation, communication, and coordination are all collapsing simultaneously — a compound event few can process. Education, media, organizations, and geography were each architected to ration a scarce resource that AI is making abundant. These gates were load-bearing walls, not corruption; AI doesn't tear them down maliciously, it simply makes them unnecessary. The unasked question: how much human potential was lost to infrastructure, not ability? We're about to find out.
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